Hors d'œuvre. Consommé Tosca. Crème Portugaise. Turbot Bouilli. Sce. Homard. Filet d'Hareng Meunière. Mignonette d'Agneau Marigny. Grenadine de Veau Clamart. Grouse rôti. Salade. Choufleur au Gratin. Glacé Napolitaine. Mignardises. * * * * * Gretener, who is the proprietor of the New Albert Restaurant, 77 Knightsbridge, also, in the past, scored good marks in my memory, for he was manager of that very difficult proposition, the restaurant of the Gare Maritime at Boulogne, and during his reign there it was always possible, by giving him warning beforehand, to get an excellent luncheon excellently served. As most of the business of that restaurant is to put the greatest amount of food in the shortest possible time into travellers who keep one anxious eye on the train outside, or to cater for big parties of excursionists at the cheapest possible rate, a manager must have a soul for the gastronomic art to keep his restaurant under these conditions a place of delicate cookery. When M. Gretener and his pretty wife came to England they established themselves at a restaurant in Knightsbridge, which has a tessellated pavement and walls of ornamented glazed tiles with mirrors at intervals, and a ceiling on which cupids in high relief gambol on medallions with a blue ground. A stained glass window is at the far end of the restaurant, a wide staircase leads to the first floor, and under the staircase is a little glassed-in serving-room. M. Gretener has collected a very faithful clientele, and he also sends out meals to the dwellers in the houses of flats which abound in Knightsbridge. In the summer-time many people who go out of a morning to Hyde Park, strangers in the land, French, Germans, and Italians amongst them, see Gretener's as they go through the Albert Gate and make it their lunching place. A three-shilling dinner is the dinner of the house, but whenever I have been there I have ordered my meal _à la carte_ from the very moderately priced card of the day, and this is a typical bill. _Crème Lentils_, 8d. Mayonnaise of Salmon, 2s. _Noisette d'agneau Doria_, 1s. 6d. _Haricots verts sautés_, 6d., and _Bavarois chocolat_, 4d. * * * * *