The gourmet's guide to Europe / by Lieut.-Col. Newnham-Davis.

  • Newnham-Davis, Lieut.-Col. (Nathaniel), 1854-1917.
Date:
1908
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Credit: The gourmet's guide to Europe / by Lieut.-Col. Newnham-Davis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    'Paris 3 5 la the Rue Richelieu there is a very quiet and simple little restaurant, Gauclay’s, pat- Gauclay's, ronised by the men who write for the Rue Richelieu Temps, which any Englishman who talks French well will find interesting All the world knows Maxim’s as a rather noisy supping-place, where Maxim’s, the ladies are not all of the “upper Rue Royale ten ” ; but comparatively few people know that it is a quiet but not unamusing restaurant at lunch and dinner time, and that its cookery is noticeably good. There are a dozen other restaurants away from the boulevards which deserve a word. Sylvain’s, in the Rue de la Chaussee d’Antin, which at one time was the chosen supping place of the butterfly ladies, but which now is chiefly celebrated for an excellent brand of old cognac; the big Brasserie Universelle in the Avenue de l’Opera, which gives its clients a choice of fifty hors doeuvre; and the Restaurant de la Rotonde in the Boulevard Haussmann—all three have faithful and admiring clienteles. If you are going by a mid-day train from the Gare St. Lazare, you can breakfast in reasonable comfort at the Restaurant Mollard, facing the station, or at the Restaurant de la Pepiniere, a rotisserie which Mr. Roland Strong was the first Englishman to discover, and which has since prospered exceedingly. The food there is very cheap, but game and poultry is exception- ally well cooked. The Restaurant Lequen, facing the Gare du Nord, is also a well-managed establishment. The Restaurants of the Quartier Of the restaurants of the Quartier, Lavenue’s, opposite the Montparnasse station, is Lavenue one of the best. It has a cafe, which is 68 Boulevard quite gorgeous, and in the three little MontPamasse rooms at the back some of the most celebrated men