Little Chelsea

Elm Park Mansions is a row of historic residential buildings in Chelsea, London, U.K.

Sex (stylised SEX) was a boutique run by Vivienne Westwood and her former partner Malcolm McLaren at 430 King's Road, London between 1974 and 1976. It specialised in clothing that defined the look of the punk movement.

Aubergine was a restaurant in Chelsea, London. Owned by A-Z Restaurants, it was opened under chef Gordon Ramsay in 1993. Aubergine was awarded two Michelin stars in 1997, which it held until Ramsay left the restaurant in July 1998 following the sacking of Marcus Wareing from sister restaurant L'Oranger. It subsequently reopened and held a single Michelin star under William Drabble until he left the restaurant in 2009. Aubergine closed in 2010, pending a relaunch as an informal Italian restaurant.

The Glaciarium was the world's first mechanically frozen ice rink and was located in London, England. An item in the 8 June 1844 issue of Littell's Living Age headed "The Glaciarium" reported: This establishment, which has been removed to Grafton street East' Tottenham-court-road [sic], was opened on Monday afternoon. The area of artificial ice is extremely convenient for such as may be desirous of engaging in the graceful and manly pastime of skating. A later rink was opened by John Gamgee in a tent in a small building just off the Kings Road in Chelsea, London, on 7 January 1876. In March, it moved to a permanent venue at 379 Kings Road, where a rink measuring 40 by 24 feet was established.The rink was based on a concrete surface, with layers of earth, cow hair and timber planks. Atop these were laid oval copper pipes carrying a solution of glycerine with ether, nitrogen peroxide, and water. The pipes were covered by water and the solution was pumped through, freezing the water into ice. Gamgee had discovered the process while attempting to develop a method to freeze meat for import from Australia and New Zealand, and had patented it as early as 1870.Gamgee operated the rink on a membership-only basis and attempted to attract a wealthy clientele, experienced in open-air ice skating during winters in the Alps. He installed an orchestra gallery, which could also be used by spectators, and decorated the walls with views of the Swiss Alps.The rink initially proved a success, and Gamgee opened two further rinks later in the year: at Rusholme in Manchester and the "Floating Glaciarium" at Charing Cross in London, this last significantly larger at 115 by 25 feet. However, the process was expensive, and mists rising from the ice deterred customers, forcing Gamgee to close the Glaciarium by the end of the year, and all his rinks had shut by mid-1878. However, the Southport Glaciarium opened in 1879, using Gamgee's method.

Goat is an Italian restaurant and cocktail bar at 333 Fulham Road in Chelsea, London, England. It was originally a pub called the Goat, which in 1725 became the Goat in Boots. In 2013, it was renamed to "Goat".

Parsons Restaurant (full name: Parsons Old Spaghetti Factory and Coffee House) at 311 Fulham Road in London opened on 2 December 1970 and closed on 3 August 1997. It was started by two architects, Alexander Neel and Michael Tickner, who had met while doing a year out of their course in San Francisco – they were impressed with a restaurant there called The Old Spaghetti Factory and Coffee House and decided that it was exactly what London needed in 1970. Michael Tickner, one of the two architects, designed the "look" – large Victorian mirrors, Victorian tip-top tables, bentwood chairs, potted palms, hanging ferns, ceiling fans, swan-neck lamps, and butterflies on the walls. Tickner had previously designed the first Biba.Very few eateries in London in the 1960s had been designed for young people. Two of them were just down the road: the first PizzaExpress (Peter Boizot), and The Great American Disaster (Peter Morton) who later founded the Hard Rock Cafe with Isaac Tigrett), which was the first place in London to sell authentic American burgers. Parsons was one of the leaders in this trend for casual dining, becoming instantly fashionable, with queues forming in the street outside and strangers sharing tables inside. The waiting staff were as young and trendy – some of them also from America, dodging the Vietnam draft – as the clientele, and the atmosphere in the evenings was glamorous and electric, a constant party to the background of loud funky music and the "in" crowd hosted by Tickner at one of the large tables in the shopfront. The theatrical setting was as much the attraction as the food. The concept was much copied, in particular by Browns Restaurants in Brighton in 1973, which even adopted the unusual shape of the menu, and was subsequently replicated as a formula by Browns in a number of other cities in the UK.Early reviews of the food were not particularly enthusiastic; Quentin Crewe praised the décor but was lukewarm about the spaghetti. In 1972 Humphrey Lyttelton liked the friendliness of the staff and the good value. The décor and ambience were praised by Vogue and Time Out.As the business matured the food improved, and it was an early adopter of the idea of traceability, buying all its meat from the mid 1980s from the Lower Hurst Farm herd of Herefords and Texels in Derbyshire, well before BSE became a problem. Jonathan Meades, writing for The Times stated "If one is going to eat hamburgers – and this one usually isn’t – Parsons is probably the place to do it."One of the other reasons that Parsons endured was the very low turnover of staff at a time when restaurants were a byword for "bus-stop" labour. It was not unusual for them to remain for 10 years or more, possibly because the working environment was enjoyable. One Moroccan kitchen worker, "Benma" Benhmadouch, employed as a washer-up on day one, was Head Chef by the time the restaurant closed, and his brother Ahmed was also employed for nearly twenty years; together with four others they served over 100 man years at Parsons.Number 311 was on a stretch of the Fulham Road popularly known as "The Beach". The origin of this name is a classic urban myth; first used as a humorous reference to the fashionable flaneurs of the area by Pat Connolly, who supplied meat to the restaurant prior to Lower Hurst Farm, it was relayed as established fact during an interview with Jonathan Meades, who then included the "fact" in a review, and the term became common currency.

Maggie's Club is a Margaret Thatcher themed nightclub in Chelsea, London. The venue has overt references to the former Prime Minister, such as black-and-white photos on the stairs, a mural of Thatcher on the wall, and the former Conservative leader's speeches playing in the lavatories.

Elm Park Road is a street in Chelsea, London. It runs roughly west to east from Park Walk, crossing Beaufort Street, among others. In 1875, Chelsea Park House was demolished, and Park Road was extended across the empty site to Park Place (now Park Walk), and the street was renamed Elm Park Road. Most of the houses were built from 1875 to 1882, and much was designed by George Godwin.

The Budokwai (The Way of Knighthood Society) (武道会, Budōkai, Society of the Martial Way) in London is the oldest Japanese martial arts club in Europe. It was founded in 1918 by Gunji Koizumi and initially offered tuition in jujutsu, kendo, and other Japanese martial arts. It was the first judo club in Europe.

The Vale is a street in Chelsea, London. It runs roughly north to south, from a junction with Elm Park Road and Elm Park Gardens (effectively its northern continuation) to a t-junction in the south where it meets the King's Road. In December 2022, it was reckoned to be the eighth most expensive street in England.Most of the west side, 3-29 The Vale is grade II listed. This includes no 27, The Russian House, the facade of which is a Russian dacha built for a "turn-of-the-century exhibition" at The Crystal Palace between 1890 and 1900, then bought by the architect F. E. Williams, then relocated, transformed and extended from c. 1911 to c. 1913. It was listed for sale in 2016 at £16 million.Henry Tonks, the artist and surgeon lived at no 1 from 1910 until his death in 1937. His 1928–1929 painting Saturday Night in the Vale was bought by Sir William Orpen in 1929 and bequeathed to Tate in 1932. It depicts George Moore reading aloud from his novel Aphrodite in Aulis to an audience of St John Hutchinson, his wife Mary Hutchinson, Philip Wilson Steer, and Tonks.

The World's End is a Grade II listed public house and restaurant at 459 King's Road, Chelsea, London. It gives its name to the surrounding area at the western end of the King's Road.

Bluebird Chelsea, at 330–350 King's Road, Chelsea, London, is a Grade II-listed building that is now a noted D&D London restaurant and café, but which had its origins as a noted Art Deco garage complex built for the Bluebird Motor Company, which had connections with Sir Malcolm Campbell.