Song and supper room

Illustration of Evans Music-and-Supper Rooms from Fifty years of a Londoner's life (1916)

A song and supper room was a type of dining club in mid-nineteenth century Victorian England in which entertainment and good food were provided. They provided an alternative to formal theatre and music hall with a convivial atmosphere in which the customers were encouraged to perform themselves.[1]

  1. ^ Ronald Pearsall, "The Song and Supper Rooms", Victorian popular music