Brewer's: Chattelin's

A fashionable coffee-house in the reign of Charles II.

“Met their servant coming to bring me to Chatelin's, the French house, in Covent Garden, and there with music and good company ... mighty merry till ten at night. The Duke of Monmouth and a great many blades were at Chatelin's, and I left them there.” —Pepys: Diary, April 22nd, 1668.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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