The Press., 1895-07-18
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 A very popular restaurant is Baz- zurO's which is situated near the water front. This is greatly patronized by the Italian fishermen, who file in after their days work, still wearing their gum boots and smelling strongly of their craft. It is also frequented by the Ital- ian vegetable gardeners. who drive in from the outskirts of town, and after dis posing of their stock stop to dine. When the place is reasonably well filled. there is babel of voices. They are all talk ing at once, and out of the confusion the word ''scudi" is distinguished above all others.
 This means money, which the pro- prietor says, with a shrug, "they talk about all the time, all the time" The fishermen bring the best of their days catch here, and the gardeners offer their choicest vegetables. The chef, whose kitchen is back of the dining tables and in full view of the room, is merry fel low, and between his juggling feats, toss ing his pan into the air to turn the cook ing fish or meat exchanges gossip and jests with the diners. This place is kept comparatively clean. The floor is covered with sawdust and the ceiling festooned with gaudy colored paper cut in fanciful designs. Two parrots add to the general din, and all sorts and con- ditions of cats prowl around the foor
 The restaurant is conducted by two brothers, one of whom waits on table, while the other attends bar and looks after the cash receipts. Every Italian after dining stops at the bar for chat and a drink. Instead of 8 liquor, the host pours generous glasses of olaret for himself and his guests, and these are speedily tossed off. A casual visitor, aft CT witnessing this ceremony about 25 times in quick succession, is apt to grow nervous about the health of the host, but he appears none the worse for his conviviality at the end of the evening. The younger brother sometimes relieves his brother at the bar. He is quite as hospitable, and his invariable drink be- ing absinthe and seltzer his case seems even more alarming
 This restaurant, at 7:3O in the even- ing, when dinner is in full swing, pre- sents an odd sight, the Italians sitting around the tables, most of them with their hats on, gesticulating and talking excitedly across the room, while they roll the spaghetti round their forks and dexterously transfer it in yard lengths to their mouths. A butcher, with all the marks of his trade about him, ocou- pies table with the policeman on the beat, who gets the best service of all; a few men about town, who have heard of the chefs fame, and forget the unsavory looking company in their enjoyment of the plates, and often table or two taken by young society girls with their chap eron and escorts. The girls consider a dinner at Bazzuro's tremendous lark.
 The Americans do not venture on the clarat so generously served with the din- ner. A flask of Chianti is ordered in it's stead, and the proprietor always proffers the empty flask to tho youngest member of the party as souvenir. Fran cisco Letter.