John Watson bronze plaque

Connection to This Location

# The Criterion Restaurant, 224 Piccadilly Standing beneath the gleaming facade of the Criterion Restaurant on Piccadilly, you're at the precise threshold where Dr. John Watson's entire future pivoted in the early months of 1881. It was here, at the long bar of this Victorian establishment, that Wa...

Location

The Criterion Restaurant, 224 Piccadilly

Inscription

This plaque commemorates the historic meeting early in 1881 at the original Criterion long bar of Dr. Stamford and Dr. John Watson which led to the introduction of Dr. Watson to Mr. Sherlock Holmes.