I was fortunate to enjoy an evening here very recently and what a warm and hospitable place The Garrick is.
One just has to stand for a couple of minutes in opposite the noticeboard near the entrance hall, to strike up conversation with some of the most interesting and personable people around!
The food and drink are excellent and the Club has probably the greatest collection of theatre related artwork and books in the world!
Founded in 1831 The Garrick is a private members club. Members of the Club included writers such as Dickens, Trollope, Captain Marryat, Meredith, JM Barrie, Pinero and WS Gilbert, actors such as Macready, Charles Kemble, Charles Mathews, Irving, Tree and Forbes-Robertson, composers such as Elgar and Sullivan and artists such as Millais, Leighton and Rossetti.
Today the Club has around 1,300 members including many of the most distinguished actors and men of letters in England. The original assurance of the committee, that it would be better that ten unobjectionable men should be excluded than one terrible bore should be admitted, ensures that the lively atmosphere for which the Club was so well-known in the nineteenth century continues to invigorate members of the Club in the twenty-first century. read more