London at the End of the Century:A Book of Gossip
a Beckett, Arthur William
1900
A PAUSE FOR REFRESHMENT.
By the time you have left the City and returned westward you will learn that you are ready for lunch. Do not go to your club, but try a restaurant. Without laying myself open to giving a gratuitous advertisement, it may be permissible to hint that there are two or three establishments in Regent Street where you can get an excellent meal at a very reasonable rate-not the regulation English food, cooked in the customary brutal British fashion, but a dainty meal worthy of the Olympian gods-a or a , a , or a with a | |
253 | dish of , and an . In the Strand, too, there are a number of excellent restaurants; but the best of the establishments, take them all in all, are situated in the Quadrant in Regent Street. Many's the time have I lunched there, and, in the days of long ago, dined in its upper chambers, in the company of gallant yeomen, brave aquatic athletes and equally pleasing companions. Much good music, too, have I heard within its welcome walls. I may not mention its name, but those who know it will corroborate me in the estimates I have formed of its value. May it flourish! |