The Texas Embassy is a cantina (a Tex-Mex restaurant & grill) on Cockspur Street, near Trafalgar Square named to commemorate London's Texas Legation (which is around 700 yards/metres west down Pall Mall). At one time, the restaurant's location had been the offices of the White Star Line, owners of the RMS Titanic.
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“The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key ... and bolt the door at once.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)