Smyrna times., 1873-02-05
WHOLE NO. 927
Cheap Living.

How to get plenty of good things to eat, and
get that plenty cheap, is one of the many prob
lens which poor people and people with
moderate incomes have for an indefinite number
of years been trying to solve. Our California
brethren seem to enjoy the blessing of good
living at lew prices. 1t appears that they have
one restaurant under the fostering care of the
celebrated game cook, Pat Flynne," which
aspires to be the cheapest and best house in
America. This modest claim is sustained by
the fact that the aristOcratic luxury OF pork
and BEANS together with the inestimable
decacy Boston brown bread, is obtainable
there for ten cents and that other eatables are
proportionately low. Oysters in every style
may be had for fifteen cents; tea, coffee and
chocolate for five cents; and white, or claret,
wine for five cents. Porter house steak, thirty
cents. Roast turkey, with cranberry sauce,
chicken pot-pie, chicken fricassee, and tender
loin steak, are each priced twenty-five cents;
good slrlOln comes at twenty; roast goose,
roast duck and German pancake GO for fifteen
cents, and all the other articles on the bill of
fare (except pies and puddings, which cost FIVE
cents) sell for ten cents. These include roast
mutton, beef, pork, veal, salmon, smelts, bat
ter cakes, steak, chops, beef q LI mode, fish
balls, liver, bacon, breasto OF lamb, tripe, kidney,
sea bass, herring, and the immortal hash.
, Almost equally fascinating are the prospects
held ont at another San Francisco restaurant,
where the scale Of prices is as follows: Porter
house steak stewed oysters, oysters in batter,
clans, (stewed or fried, chicken pot-pie, and
2 chicken fricassee, twenty-five cents; tenderloin
steak, sirloin, weiner schneitzel, Hamburg beef
t steaks, various preparations of eggs, German
\ pancakes, with tea or coffee, twenty cents
cracked wheat and milk, hot English mullins,
German roofs, hot rolls, or dry toast, (all these
j with tea or coffee fifteen cents. The number
of articles selling for twelve cents are too many
:, for mention, but the principal among them are
J. beefsteaks Spanish style, Dreaded veal outlets
e and mutton chops, salmon, Strawberries and
cream, every kind of soup and fish, all vege
D. tables and puddings, and various sorts of wines
e, This is cheap enough, goodness knows, anC
k makes one appreciate more sensitively the ex
o. tortionate demand for similar dainties here
i. Another feature noticeable in the San Fran
ST. cisco restaurants is the habit of coupling tw
u! dishes together and selling them at reduca(
!" price. Thus, three twelve-cent dishes 60 TO
ds twenty, five cents, two twelve-cent dishes 10
lie twenty cents, and ali the bread and butter yo
10 can eat is ''thrown in" One twenty-five an
mt two tweve-cent dishes are forty cents; porter
be house steak and two twelve-cent dishes ar
ng forty cents and two twenty-five cent and on
en- twelve-cent dish, fifty cents. On the otht
of hand, single twelve cent dish is fifteen cent
re- At Pat Flynne's'' any single ten cent dis
NJ. is fifteen cents, and any single fve-cent dish
ing ten cents. 1t would be interesting to ha'
some approximation to such prices here.