Morning journal and courier., 1885-04-20
American Restaurants Needed in Lon-

London Letter to New York Tribune.1
 That long g-promised American hotel, like the millennium is still not forthcoming What blessing it would be to have bill embracing all charges under one head, and a table d'hote for two square meals a day-a breakfast and dinner taken in Christian like mannerl Those who live at the usua hotel get awfully tired of the table dhote dinner, in which there is very little change, and go out wandering around to some of those numberless restaurants. The only variety at hotel dinner day after day is a slight change in the way the hare is cooked. At the restaurants it is the eternal 'tgrill'- a grilled chop, grilled steak, grilled ham; and you get as tired of the grill as of the hare. There is better opening in London to-day for first class American hotel and American restaurant than in any other part of the world. When I say American" I do not, of course, mean American cooking. But we wapt something conducted by American. If anyone would set frst-rate American hotel-keeper up in either one & for tune awaits all concerned. Americans pine for change from chops to hare. And, moreover, Englishmen would take shy for curiosity. There is an opening for some smart Yankee woman to open lunch shop anywhere down in the city or up in the Strand. If such one should open decent place, advertise genuine Yankee buckwheat cakes, corn bread, deughnuts, mince and apple pies, and serve very good ones, the police would have to be called in to preserve order, the rush would be so great. Every American would go as duty daily if it took him mile out of the way, and Englishmen would go from curiosity, ito try the blars- ted stuff, you know,'' and they would go again and continue to go, for nobody is fond CT of good things to eat than Londoners, and especially do they affect sweets About lunch time they crowd the cake shops, and such stuff as they eat under the head of sweetsl Tough? We'll, gutta percha railroad sandwich is not worse. And as for a pie, they know not what it is. Their at tempts at & mince pie could make any we'll regulated ,proper-minded Connecticut woman want to die.
 Won't some good, smart woman, up to the requirements of the American citizen in a foreign land, come on to our rescues Won't somebody come over here and feed us!
 Speaking of lunch and dining saloons, there are some things here, common customs, that shock the American idea of propriety. To begin with, the custom of wsmen enter ing saloons at all hours of the day. stepping up to the bars, and calling for brandy and water, or whatever liquors they fancy. And these are not of the lower order, by any means. On the contrary, many of them are the wives of respectable merchants, and dressed elegantly. In the evening, when the theatsrs are out, every. gin place within Several blocks is crowded with men, women and children just from theater. The whole | family enter and call for spirits, and thus set terrible example for the children ac- companying them. At the bars, at all hours of the day and evening, there are as many female customers male, and there IS no af- | fectation of nonsense about it. They don't l drink from wine glasses, but take their meas. ured gill the same as men, and take it mate at that. They can get water at home. The consumption of spirits in England is eppall- | | 1,,7,,I ,Iroy,- ness. How wouldn't look to see & couple of well-dressed, respectable women walk into the Hoffman House bar-room in New York l and standing up to the counter call for "a