The Blue Cockatoo was a restaurant in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London, at the corner with Oakley Street.[1] It is considered to have been England's first bistro.[1]
Nonetheless, the restaurant was recommended by a Tom Pocock in Raymond Postgate's first volume (1950/51) of The Good Food Guide where the entry reads, "Just the thing for visitors with a hankering after art and bohemia. The food is good even if inclined to be monotonous, and the Blue Cockatoo is a sixteenth-century house lit by candles; the furniture is old and rickety, and there is a lovely view of the river through the trees of Carlyle Gardens. Very cheap but not licensed. Lunch 3/--, dinner 3/6 and 5/--."[4]
In 1962–1967, The Blue Cockatoo along with the Pier Hotel was sold to developers Wates Group to be replaced by "luxury flats".[1][3] The block of flats is called Pier House, and a statue of A Boy on a Dolphin stands at the front.[3]
