found on the
tariff, "hot milk with a dash of coffee."

[Illustration: GROOM'S COFFEE HOUSE, FLEET STREET, LONDON]

[Illustration: CAFE MONICO, PICCADILLY CIRCUS, LONDON]

As to the boiling method, this is already generally discredited in the
countries of western Europe. The steeping method so much favored in
England may be responsible for some of the unkind things said about
English coffee; because it undoubtedly leads to the abuse of
over-infusion, so that the net result is as bad as boiling.

The vast majority of the English people are, however, confirmed tea
drinkers, and it is extremely doubtful if this national habit, ingrained
through centuries of use of "the cup that cheers" at breakfast and at
tea time in the afternoon can ever be changed.

As already mentioned in this work, the London coffee houses of the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries gave way to a type of coffee house
whose mainstay was its food rather than its drink. In time, these too
began to yield to the changing influences of a civilization that
demanded modern hotels, luxurious tea lounges, smart restaurants, chain
shops, tea rooms, and cafes with and without coffee. A certain type of
"coffee shop," with rough boarded stalls, sanded floors and "private
rooms," frequented by lower class workingmen, were to be found in
England for a time; but because of their doubtful character, they were
closed up by the police.

Among other places in London where coffee may be had in English or
continental style, mention should be made of the Cafe Monico, a good
place to drop in for a coffee and liqueur, and one of the pioneers of
the modern restaurant; Gatti's, where _cafe filtre_, or coffee produced
by the filtration method, is a specialty; the cosmopolitan Savoy with
its popular tea lounge (teas, sixty cents); the Piccadilly Hotel, with
its Louis XIV restaurant catering to refined and luxurious tastes; the
Waldorf Hotel, with its American clientele and its palm court (teas,
thirty-six cents); the Cecil, with its palm court and tea balcony, also
having a special attraction for Americans; Lyons' Popular Cafe (iced
coffee, twelve cents); the Trocadero with its special Indian curries
prepared by native cooks once each week; the Temple Bar restaurant, an
attractive refectory owned by the semi-philanthropic Trust-Houses, Ltd.,
which runs some two hundred similar establishments throughout the
country, serving alcoholic drinks but stressing non-intoxicating
be