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@Throughthemind
There were two vegetarian restaurants that have sometimes been confused by academics and historians who have written on the history of vegetarianism. We have good WP:RS on Nichols's Alpha restaurant that was located at 23 Oxford Street. It was active up until the late 1890s.
The Alpha Food Reform Restaurant was another restaurant located on the same street 429 Oxford Street. There is some adverts for both of these restaurants that you can see here [1]. The listed proprietor was James Salisbury.
P. S. Brown in a footnote seems to have confused these restaurants [2]. BTW there is a lot about Nichols in this paper which could be used as a reference for the article.
Regarding sourcing, I have only seen one source on Nichols and the Alpha Food Reform Restaurant (Studies in Church History
Volume 19. p. 268), this is what it says "Nichols took his ideas one stage further. Nichols opened the Alpha Food Reform restaurant at 429 Oxford Street, London. It was part of his campaign to channel the vegetarian impulse into the Food Reform Society". I am not sure if Nichols was the original owner and James Salisbury took over later. Let me know if you have any further sources on this. It might be best to leave mention of the Alpha Food Reform off the article if no better sources can be found. Psychologist Guy (talk) 17:14, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Psychologist Guy Thanks for looking into this. Having looked at the advertisement here (from your source) it mentions that it is "Now Open at the Sanitary Depot of Nichols & Company". From this we can infer that it was based at the site of T. L. Nichols business. I unfortunately couldn't find any other sources though. Throughthemind (talk) 19:32, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
