Born of the lack of a quality
all you could eat restaurant in 1930's, depression-stricken London, the
Astray Buffet first flung open it's doors on
Fleet Street in 1931 (in the process, injuring a sleeping drunk who'd set up camp in the foyer, according to the
Associated Press).
With it's prime locale — merely metres from the Royal Courts of Justice and a short stroll from the
Headjob and Handbrake — the original Astray Buffet soon gained notoriety for all the wrong reasons. In short, those who could afford to indulge in it's delicacies — namely, the legal professionals and journalists that frequented that quarter of London — would never get the chance.