The
Gourmet's Guide
To Europe
BY
LIEUT.-COL. NEWNHAM-DAVIS
AND
ALGERNON BASTARD
EDITED BY THE FORMER
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.
| CHAPTER I | ||
| PARIS | ||
| The "Cuisine de Paris"—A little ancient history—Restaurants with a "past"—The restaurants of to-day—Over the river—Open-air restaurants—Supping-places—Miscellaneous | ||
| CHAPTER II | ||
| FRENCH PROVINCIAL TOWNS | ||
| The northern ports—Norman and Breton towns—The west coast and Bordeaux—Marseilles and the Riviera—The Pyrenees—Provence—Aix-les-Bains and other "cure" places | ||
| CHAPTER III | ||
| BELGIAN TOWNS | ||
| The food of the country—Antwerp—Spa—Bruges—Ostende | ||
| CHAPTER IV | ||
| BRUSSELS | ||
| The Savoy—The Epaule de Mouton—The Faille Déchirée—The Lion d'Or—The Regina—The Helder—The Filet de Sole—Wiltcher's—Justine's—The Etoile—The Belveder—The Café Riche—Duranton's—The Laiterie—Miscellaneous | ||
| CHAPTER V | ||
| HOLLAND | ||
| Restaurants at the Hague—Amsterdam—Scheveningen— Rotterdam—The food of the people | ||
| CHAPTER VI | ||
| GERMAN TOWNS | ||
| The cookery of the country—Rathskeller and beer-cellars—Dresden—Münich—Nüremburg—Hanover— Leipsic—Frankfurt—Düsseldorf—The Rhine valley—"Cure" places—Kiel—Hamburg | ||
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| CHAPTER VII | ||
| BERLIN | ||
| Up-to-date restaurants—Supping-places—Military cafés—Night restaurants | ||
| CHAPTER VIII | ||
| SWITZERLAND | ||
| Lucerne—Basle—Bern—Geneva—Davos Platz | ||
| CHAPTER IX | ||
| ITALY | ||
| Italian cookery and wines—Turin—Milan—Genoa— Venice—Bologna—Spezzia—Florence—Pisa—Leghorn— Rome—Naples—Palermo | ||
| CHAPTER X | ||
| SPAIN AND PORTUGAL | ||
| Food and wines of the country—Barcelona—San Sebastian—Bilbao—Madrid—Seville—Bobadilla— Grenada—Jerez—Algeciras—Lisbon—Estoril | ||
| CHAPTER XI | ||
| AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY | ||
| Viennese restaurants and cafés—Baden—Carlsbad— Marienbad—Prague—Bad Gastein—Budapesth | ||
| CHAPTER XII | ||
| ROUMANIA | ||
| The dishes of the country—The restaurants of Bucarest | ||
| CHAPTER XIII | ||
| SWEDEN. NORWAY. DENMARK | ||
| Stockholm restaurants—Malmö—Storvik—Gothenburg— Christiana—Copenhagen—Elsinore | ||
| CHAPTER XIV | ||
| RUSSIA | ||
| Food of the country—Restaurants in Moscow—The dining-places of St. Petersburg—Odessa—Warsaw | ||
| CHAPTER XV | ||
| TURKEY | ||
| Turkish dishes—Constantinople restaurants | ||
| CHAPTER XVI | ||
| GREECE | ||
| Grecian dishes—Athens | ||
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