Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-08-15
COSMOPOLITAN EATING,
You Can Get the Dishes of All Ma
tions in Some Restaurants in
New York.

mo matter" said one of the lead.
ling "Bohemians'' of New York the
other day. mo matter what a mans
tastes may be in the matter of eating.
or what his lack of taste may be, if he
stop short of cannibalism in his desires.
he can have them gratihed to the top
lof his bent in some of the restaurants
of New York.
"Shall L begin at the top or the bot
tomp" lie asked, rolling a cigarette and
settling himself for AN interview. IL
Think" he continued, without waiting
tor an answer, "that the top would be
best, for probably 1 do not know the
bottom. L shall probably stop before L
reach the end, for it is hard to say who
does know the worst restaurants in
town. have experimental as far as l
dare In that direction, bat presume L
haven't gone far enough.
The best dinners in the world /
believe can be had In New York. If
you want to dine a Ia Rllsse and take
all night to 1t, you can do it at any of
several expensive nldiSOas near Madison
Square. This is not dining, though; it
is debauch. The chef of the King
of Greece not long ago described an
IDEAL dinner. and such a one YOU may
get, IL you can afford the price, In.any
one of twenty restaurants. l am not
advertising any of them. He suggests
the soups, one thin, the other thick.
Then two relieves, one of fish. the
other meat and vegetables. Next,
entries. He wisely recommends mod
Grafton here. l prefer only one, and
Ike bit of poultry. This brings you
TO the meridian OF the meal, and is not
a bad place for a pause. or even for a
full stop if you are abstemiOus. If
not. take a sorbet. My own notion is
a drop of brandy with cigarette, but
most gourmets prefer to make sweet
ened dainty of the alcohol.
Next, If you continue. and you
probably Will, take some game in a
roast and don't forget salad with it.
A dinner without a salad Is like an egg
without salt. After this you are ready
Tor trifiing. Dainty vegetables If you
want them, sweets or pastry if your
tastes are effeminate, fruit If you like,
coffee ana a cigar necessarily.
"This is model dinner, and will 90
best if prepared by an educated French
cook. Cooks are educated in other
but they seem to be lndIgi-
nous to the French sal. Turkish
cookery is not unlike it, ans eC>braces
a very similar variety. There is 20
Turkish restaurant thssS /
know of here, but you may get pilaff
TO order in any good French place.
The pilaff Is made by first boiling
IN the same water, then frying III
small pieces, a chicken and portions of
p shoulder of mutton. A handful of
rice Is next boiled in the same broth,
dralned and Drowned In butter. An
Dnion is sliced and Drowned in butter.
Tablespoonful of curry or saffron aud
4. handful OF Taisins are thrown into
the rice, which must simmer until soft.
The whole is served with hard boiled
eggs cut up for garnish.
''lt would take all day to describe
the national dishes, and a whole year
Tor you to try them all, but you NAV
10 1t in New York if you like. For !
Spanish food go TO the neighborhood of |
Maiden Lane and Pearl street. German |
restaurants are numerous on the East |
side. There Is capital one on Grand |
Street near the Bowery. or French |
places of the medium class there are |
.hree or four excellent ones on BIeeker |
street, near South Fifth Avenue. Some |
1rst class Chinese restaurants are loca-
ed on Mott street. Two good Jewish
cdliuB HOUSES dTo near the corner or /
Bayard street and the Bowery. There
are five distlnctively national Italian |!
places in the bend in Mulberry street.
md one Russian in Hester street near
East Broadway. There are several
,ood English chop-hOuses, two of the
pest, to my mind, being on Sixth ave-
lue near Twentieth street. and on
Fourth avenue also near Twentieth
street.
"Of American restaurants there is
10 end. The very best, to my notion.
s close to Washington Market. The
worst, well. there are SO many worst
mes. They are all over town. You
an eat meal for five cents in one of
It. Andrews stand. You can go to a
'eanery If you want to spend ten
ents, or If you only have two cents to
pend yoH can 60 down on Pearl street
o one OF the two-cent houses there.
New York is probably the most
place in the world, and
hows its cOsmopolitanism most of all
n its eating houses.