Scott's (restaurant)

Scott's
Scott's in 1895 when it was in Coventry Street
Restaurant information
Established	1872
Current owner(s)	Caprice Group
Food type	Seafood
Street address	20 Mount Street
City	London
Country	England
Website	Official website

Scott's is a seafood restaurant at 20 Mount Street, Mayfair, London, originally in Coventry Street, that was a favourite of Ian Fleming and in 1975 was attacked twice by the Irish Republican Army (IRA).

A "Scott's oyster rooms" in or near Haymarket existed from at least 1853. In that year a Paul Shoreditch of Devereaux Court, Temple, was brought before a judge for trying to pass a forged £5 note at the establishment. In 1859 a man was charged with assaulting a waiter at Scott's oyster rooms in Coventry Street.

In 1872, Charles Sonnhammer and Emil Loibl, the owners of the London Pavilion music hall, established an "oyster warehouse" at 18 Coventry Street. It stood on the corner with Great Windmill Street. Sonnhammer became the sole owner in 1875 following the break up of his partnership with Loibl in 1874. The business changed ownership again in 1876 and once more in 1891 when it became known as Scott's Oyster and Supper Rooms, located at numbers 18 and 19.

In 1892–94, numbers 18 and 19, together with number 20, were rebuilt in Bath stone to the design of architects Treadwell and Martin in a style described by the Survey of London in 1963 as being known at the time as "early French renaissance". The survey continued:

Wine and coffee bars, 'lobster-boiling rooms', etc., were planned for the basement, oyster bars and a grill-room for the ground floor, with three floors of dining-rooms above, and pantries and sculleries on the top floor. The two façades on this corner site are related, each having a gable (one dated 1892, the other 1894) and there is an octagonal oriel-turret at the angle, with carved panels containing scallop-shells. Bands of carved vegetation are still visible on the Great Windmill Street front. The plinth and stunted columns of polished dark Labrador granite, and the unpolished Kemnay granite up to the first-floor sills have been coloured black and the Bath stone above appears to have been painted."