Bell's daughter subsequently sold the restaurant to the current owner John Mayhew in 1984.

[4] Efforts have been made to carefully preserve the original features in the main restaurant and in the cocktail bar.

The walls are decorated with a series of sketches, oil paintings and cartoons which have been collected throughout its history.

[4] The restaurant has featured in novels by Graham Greene, Dick Francis, Dorothy L. Sayers and Evelyn Waugh.

John Betjeman complained to the Greater London Council in 1971 when the restaurant was under threat from demolition.