Nando's Coffee House

The name Nando is thought to be a short form of Ferdinando,[1] and its exact address is given variously as somewhere between 15 and 17 Fleet Street.

[1][2] David Hughson wrote in 1807 that Nando's occupied the building at 15 Fleet Street[1] which was previously the Rainbow Coffee House.

[3] However, property deeds in the Middle Temple Archive place the location of the coffee house at 14 Fleet Street.

[4] The venue was a favourite haunt of Edward Thurlow, who became Lord Chancellor, and he was satirised as being enamoured of the landlady's attractive daughter.

[5] Charles Lamb refers to Nando's in his essay "Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading", writing, "Newspapers always excite curiosity.

"Law and equity, or A peep at Nando's": a cartoon from 1787, depicting Edward Thurlow in his Chancellor's wig, approaching the bar at Nando's.