Pagani's Restaurant

Pagani's Restaurant was a restaurant located at the site where 40–48 Great Portland Street is now, in the Borough of St. Marylebone, London. It became a favourite gathering place for many artists and musicians before, during and between the wars,^[1] closing after it was bombed in the Blitz.^[2]

Pagani's began as a small shop (originally at No. 54 Great Portland Street) opened by Mario Pagani, a Swiss-Italian, in 1871. It soon became a restaurant, expanding into the surrounding buildings. Although owned by an Italian the menus were French, as was the custom at the time.^[3]

On retirement in 1887 Mario handed over control to his brother, and then (from 1895) to his cousin Giuseppe Pagani. In 1901 Arthur Beresford Pite was contracted to remodel the building's exterior - following on from the deep arcading in coloured terracotta carried out earlier by Charles Worley - and to open up the interior. From 1904 Pagani's partner Arturo Meschini took over as the sole proprietor.^[4]

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