Trocadero (name origin)

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This article is about restaurants and clubs bearing the name Trocadero. For other uses, see Trocadero (disambiguation).

Trocadero is the name of several restaurants and clubs throughout the world. The name dates to the Battle of Trocadero in southern Spain, in which a citadel held by liberal Spanish forces that was taken by the French troops sent by Charles X, in 1823, was commemorated in the Place du Trocadéro, Paris.

The monumental glamor of the Parisian site has given rise to a variety of locales bearing its name.

In San Francisco, California, at the turn of the 20th century, the Trocadero was a lively roadhouse, offering gambling at the roulette tables and dancing, as well as the best trout pond in California.

In London the Trocadero Restaurant of J. Lyons and Co. opened in 1896 in Shaftesbury Avenue, near the theatres of the West End. It offered magnificent in an Opera Baroque style, and the various Trocaderos of the English-speaking world have derived their names from this original, the epitome of grand Edwardian catering. It closed on February 13, 1965.

Consequently, Trocadero is the name of several restaurants and clubs throughout the world.