te.
Franzoes. Poularde.
Fasan.
Salat Compot.
Sellerie.
Fuerst Pueckler Bombe.
Kaese. Fruechte.
Nachtisch.
Estimated cost of two dinners at the Restaurant Schaurte (Monopole):--
M. Pfgs.
Dinner 5 00
1/2 Pontet Canet (1890) 7 00
Coffee 60
Cognac 60
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13 20
M. Pfgs.
Dinner 5 00
1/2 Roederer 8 75
(1893 Reserve for England)
1 Cognac (1860) 75
Coffee 60
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15 10
If you drink no wine with the above repast, you are charged 6 marks for
the dinner instead of 5. The wine charges are rather expensive,
otherwise there is no fault to be found. This restaurant is a
fashionable place at which to sup.
The Bristol Restaurant, attached to the hotel of that name, is also one
of the best and answers, on a reduced scale, to the Carlton Restaurant
in London; you get as good a dinner at the Bristol as you can wish to
have, especially if you interview Mons. Maxim (who was for a time in
London) the _maitre-d'hotel_, a proceeding which will ensure your being
well cared for.
In fact with regard to most restaurants, it is always better, in Berlin
as elsewhere in the world, if you have time or happen to be passing that
way, to look in wherever you may have settled to dine, choose your
table, and see what they propose to give you. It simplifies and
expedites matters on arriving, especially if you are going on to some
entertainment and have not much time to spare.
Borchard's, in the Franzoesischerstrasse, is a capital place to drop in
to lunch, as there is a cold buffet there with every sort of
Delikatesse. You can get a very good dinner there, and the wines are of
excellent quality. The attaches of the British Embassy patronise it, and
it is to the Bristol in Berlin what Claridge's is to the Carlton in
London.
The Hotel de Rome has an excellent restaurant, and many dinners of
ceremony are given there. This is the menu, headed by the motto, "The
Tubercle Bacillus will federate the World," of a di
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