The Chelsea Bun

Chelsea Bun Diner – Established since 1984

http://www.chelseabun.co.uk

Chelsea Bun Diner – Established since 1984

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Chelsea Bun Restaurant, Limerston St, Chelsea, London

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Chelsea Bun House - Wikipedia

The old Chelsea Bun House was a shop in Chelsea which sold buns in the 18th century.

It was famous for its Chelsea bun and also did a great trade in hot cross buns at Easter.

It seems to have started business early in the 18th century as Jonathan Swift wrote in his journal to Stella on 28 April 1711:[4] Over a hundred years later, Sir Richard Phillips wrote in A Morning's Walk from London to Kew:[5] Before me appeared the shops so famed for Chelsea buns, which, for above thirty years, I have never passed without filling my pockets.

The bun house would open for business as early as three or four in the morning and the crowds would press on it so fiercely that buns would only be sold through openings in the shutters.

Constables were required to keep good order and, in 1792, the crowd was so great that Mrs Hand made a public announcement that there would be no sales of hot cross buns in the following year,[7] Mrs. Hand respectfully informs her friends and the public, that in consequence of the great concourse of people which assembled before her house at a very early hour, on the morning of Good Friday last, by which her neighbours (with whom she has always lived in friendship and repute) have been much alarmed and annoyed; it having also been intimated, that to encourage or countenance a tumultuous assembly at this particular period might be attended with consequences more serious than have hitherto been apprehended; desirous, therefore, of testifying her regard and obedience to those laws by which she is happily protected, she is determined, though much to her loss, not to sell Cross Buns on that day to any person whatever, but Chelsea buns as usual.

About Honey & Co. – Honey and Co

Opened in 2012, our first solo adventure is a tiny restaurant serving traditional middle eastern food, the kind you find in people’s homes using the best ingredient we can get our hands on.

Joint ventures; Honey & Co – A tiny diner serving traditional, homey Middle Eastern fair in London’s Fitzrovia set up & run by Sarit, Itamar and the most amazing team.

Honey & Co is a tiny but faultless Middle Eastern café restaurant behind Warren Street tube station, with reasonable prices and room for about 20 people, tops.

(…) This food comes from a husband and wife making their own small business from a tiny kitchen and small dining room, and everything in it is infused with a warm hug of hospitality… This husband-and-wife team have an impressive pedigree: Itamar Srulovich was most recently head chef at Ottolenghi, while his wife Sarit Packer was both head of pastry at Ottolenghi and executive chef at Nopi.

This is our food, this is our restaurant – fresh fruit and vegetables, wild honey, big bunches of herbs, crunchy salads, smoky lamb, bread straight from the oven, old-fashioned stews, Middle Eastern traditions, falafel, dips, and plenty of tahini on everything.

London Food History: Chelsea Buns | Londonist

Related to the long-established fruit and cinnamon buns from which it’s inspired, this sweet, sticky treat is a square-ish form of currant bun first created at the Chelsea Bun House on the Chelsea/Pimlico borders.

In 1792, the congregation of hundreds of thousands of people became so unmanageable and caused so much disturbance that Mrs Hand publicly announced that she wouldn’t sell any hot cross buns the following year — but, says Edward Walford in Old and New London (1878), she promised to continue selling Chelsea buns.

In 1839, the last year before its demolition, the bakery sold around 240,000 hot cross buns — and although it’s not clear how many Chelsea buns were sold alongside, like many fruit and spice buns at the time, they were just as closely associated with Good Friday, Easter and Whitsuntide (the first three days after the seventh Sunday following Easter).

Eventually another bun house was built in its place and, according to Albert Jack’s fun, easy-to-read romp through food history What Caesar Did For My Salad, it was cheekily named the Real Old Chelsea Bun House.

In 1855, Anne Manning wrote a novel called The Old Chelsea Bun House: A Tale of the Last Century, a fictional account of life in the bakery with characters based on real people.