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THE GOURMET'S GUIDE TO LONDON


BY

LIEUT.-COL. NEWNHAM-DAVIS

_Author of
"The Gourmet's Guide to Europe"_


NEW YORK
BRENTANO'S
1914

PRINTED BY THE RIVERSIDE PRESS LIMITED
EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND

[Illustration: THE CHESHIRE CHEESE
_From a drawing by Harry Morley_]



_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.





TO ALL GOOD GOURMETS






PREFACE


In describing in this book some of the restaurants and taverns in and
near London, I have selected those that seem to me to be typical of the
various classes, giving preference to those of each kind which have
some picturesque incident in their history, or are situated amidst
beautiful surroundings, or possess amongst their personnel a celebrated
chef or _maître d'hôtel_.

The English language has not enough nicely graduated terms of praise to
enable me to give to a fraction its value to each restaurant, from the
unpretentious little establishments in Soho to such palaces as the Ritz
and Savoy, but I have included no dining-place in this volume that does
not give good value for the money it charges.

Twelve years ago I wrote a somewhat similar book, "Dinners and Diners,"
which ran through two editions, but when I looked it through last
year I found that there had been so many changes in the world of
restaurants, so many old houses had vanished and so many new ones had
arisen, that it was easier to write a new book than to bring the old
one up to date. Mr Astor very kindly gave me permission to use in this
volume any of the series of "Dinners and Diners" articles that appeared
in _The Pall Mall Gazette_, but it will be found that I have availed
myself very sparingly of his kind permission. The chapters of this
book appeared,