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The Criterion Restaurant is an opulent restaurant complex facing Piccadilly Circus in the heart of London. It was built by architect Thomas Verity in Art Nouveau style for the partnership Spiers and Pond who opened it in 1873. Apart from fine dining facilities it has a ballroom bar and theatre.In the first Sherlock Holmes story A Study in Scarlet Dr. Watson is told of his prospective roommate after he meets a friend at the Criterion.
