In
Georgette Heyer's
Regency Romance novels, Gunter's were mentioned frequently as the suppliers of refreshments and wines to the main characters' households.
Mary Elizabeth Braddon eulogised Gunter's in chapter III of her 1863 novel
Aurora Floyd. In
Mary Seacole's autobiography she states that even Gunter would have envied her reputation for the sponge cakes that she provided for the British army besieging
Sebastopol in the
Crimean War. Gunter's is the eponymous meeting place in Pamela Haines' 1974 novel 'Tea at Gunter's'. The shop is also the setting for a brief scene in
Bernard Cornwell's novel
Gallows Thief, taking place in 1817. The cafe appears to be referenced in
Graham Greene’s novel
The End of the Affair, in the 2-shilling expense line item that the private eye Parkis submits to Bendrix. “The coffee place was more expensive than I cared for,” Parkis explains, “but it was the least I could take without drawing attention.” In Patrick O'Brian's
The Letter of Marque, Gunter's staff were hired for a private dinner party by Sir Joseph Blaine, head of British intelligence, who was particularly keen to impress his guests. In the first episode of the television series
The House of Eliott, the protagonists -- two sisters who, in 1920, have lost their seemingly affluent father and whose solicitor has told them that they'll be comfortably off -- have tea at Gunter's. ==References==