Gioconda coffee bar

La Gioconda[1][2] was a cafe at 9 Denmark Street in London's Tin Pan Alley, where musicians such as David Bowie and Elton John would eat and meet other people in the music business. The premises subsequently became the Barino coffee bar.[3] The name was then revived as the Giaconda Dining Room in 2008 which expanded to the Giaconda Dining Rooms before being renamed La Giaconda and then closing in 2014.[4][5]

A commemorative blue plaque was placed the site of the cafe at number 9 in 2014.[notes 1]

Footnotes
  1. Note that photographs confirm that the original cafe was spelt Gio- rather than Gia-, which now appears on the plaque. See blog by Peter Watts: "Denmark Street and regeneration: slow death or triumphant rebirth?". Retrieved January 13, 2015.

References
  1. Peter Watts. "Denmark Street and regeneration: slow death or triumphant rebirth?". Retrieved January 13, 2015. A popular dive was La Giocondo, a cafe/bar in which most members of the nascent R&B revolution visited at some point or other – David Bowie was said to practically live there.
  2. greatwenlondon. files. wordpress .com/2014/07/ la-gioconda.jpg
  3. Glinert, Ed (2012). "Denmark Street". The London Compendium: A Street-by-street Exploration of the Hidden Metropolis. Penguin. p. 111. ISBN 9780718192044.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  4. Fay Maschler (7 November 2012), "Giaconda Dining Rooms - review", Evening Standard
  5. Jay Rayner (31 August 2008), "Perfect Pitch", The Observer

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