The Gourmet's Guide to LondonNewnham-Davis, Lieut.-Col. (Nathaniel)
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The Gourmet's Guide to London
Newnham-Davis, Lieut.-Col. (Nathaniel)
Restaurants -- England -- London -- Guidebooks
The most Italian of any restaurant that I have discovered in my
explorations in Soho is the Treviglio in Church Street, a little
restaurant that might have been lifted bodily from a canal-side in
Venice or a small street in Florence. It is whole-heartedly Italian,
and puts to the forefront of its window a list of the specialities of
Italian cookery on which it prides itself. It is a favoured haunt of
the Italian journalists in London, and that, I think, can be taken as a
certificate that its cookery is not only thoroughly Italian but is also
good Italian. Signori Pozzi and Valdoni are its proprietors.
Pinoli's is a restaurant in Lower Wardour Street that offers almost
as much at its two-shilling _table d'hôte_ dinner as some other
restaurants do at twice or more that price.
A quiet, flourishing restaurant owned by an Italian, Signor Antonio
Audagna, who began life as a waiter at Romano's, is the Comedy
Restaurant, in Panton Street, Haymarket. It is a comfortable
restaurant, with cream walls and oval mirrors and pink-shaded lamps,
and its back rooms are on a higher level than those of its Panton
Street front. Its customers are very faithful to it, and, as its
proprietor once told me, "when the fathers die the sons take their
places as customers." There was some time ago a proposal to extend
it so as to give it a front to the Haymarket, but that plan came to
naught, and the Comedy goes on just as before in its old premises.
This is a menu of the Comedy _table d'hôte_ dinner, and its proprietor
apparently took a hint from Philippe of the Cavour for the menu bears
the legend, "No beer served with this dinner":
Hors d'œuvre Variés.
Queue de Bœuf Printanière
Crème Chasseur.
Sole à la Bourguignonne.
Noisette de Pré-Salé Volnay.
Spaghetti al Sugo.
Poulet en Casserole.
Salade.
Glacé Comedy.
Dessert.
Another quiet restaurant with a faithful clientele is Signor Pratti's,
the Ship, in Whitehall. His _table d'hôte_ dinners are half-a-crown
and three-and-six, and his eighteenpenny lunch, I fancy, brings to the
restaurant many of the hard-worked gentlemen from Cox's Bank, just
across the way, and from the Admiralty, which is suitably just behind
the Ship. Signor Pratti, if I remember rightly, fines teetotalers by
charging them sixpence extra.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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