Percy Street

The ground floors of around half the houses on the street have been converted to retail use, and on the north side a large modern office block is situated on the corner of Tottenham Court Road.

The restaurant was taken over by Rudolf Stulik, the former chef to Lord Kitchener,[2] in 1910 and became very popular with painters of the Vorticist movement in 1914 and was frequented by Augustus John in the 1930s.

Among its patrons were Archduke Rudolph, Madame Kharsavina, Lord Birkenhead, Chaliapin, the Duke of Gloucester, and George Bernard Shaw, as well as the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII.

[5] Today it is the flagship venue, House of Ho, a fine dining modern Vietnamese restaurant with a sister site in Soho.

[6] In 1922 the street was home to the New Court Club where Freda Kempton met the Chinese drug dealer Brilliant Chang,[7] a meeting which may have led to her death.