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Title: The Gourmet's Guide to Europe

Author: Algernon Bastard

Editor: Lieut. Col. Newnham-Davis

Release Date: July 17, 2006 [EBook #18854]

Language: English

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THE GOURMET'S
GUIDE TO EUROPE

Publisher's Announcement

DINNERS AND DINERS:

Where and how to Dine in London

By Lieut.-Col. Newnham-Davis

_New and Revised Edition
Small Crown 8vo. Cloth._ 3/6

WHERE AND HOW TO DINE
IN PARIS

By Rowland Strong
_Fcap. 8vo. Cover designed cloth._ 2/6

* * * * *

London: GRANT RICHARDS

The
Gourmet's Guide
To Europe

BY

LIEUT.-COL. NEWNHAM-DAVIS

AND

ALGERNON BASTARD

EDITED BY THE FORMER

[Illustration]

London
GRANT RICHARDS
48 LEICESTER SQUARE, W.C.
1903

The pleasures of the table are common to all ages and ranks, to all
countries and times; they not only harmonise with all the other
pleasures, but remain to console us for their loss.

Brillat Savarin.

PREFACE

Often enough, staying in a hotel in a foreign town, I have wished to
sally forth and to dine or breakfast at the typical restaurant of the
place, should there be one. Almost invariably I have found great
difficulty in obtaining any information regarding any such restaurant.
The proprietor of the caravanserai at which one is staying may admit
vaguely that there are eating-houses in the town, but asks why one
should be anxious to seek for second-class establishments when the best
restaurant in the country is to be found under his roof. The hall-porter
has even less scruples, and stigmatises every feeding-place outside the
hotel as a den of thieves, where the stranger foolishly venturing is
certain to be poisoned and then robbed. This book is an attempt to help
the man who finds himself in such a position. His guide-book may
possibly give him the names of the restaurants, but it does no more. My
co-author