The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-02-15
In Two Parts.
Part II. Foreign Restaurants.

FdIIS.
n Restaurants.
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One such place is on East Houston
Street, in q neighborhood Of cheap
tenement houses. But it does a tre-
mendOus business, and many we'll
known people can be found there after
eleven p. m. when the theatres are out.
Somehow or other, it Is considered a
rendezvous for "Bohemians;" but that
is stretching the imagination too far.
Mr.. Roosevelt was fond of going there
when he was police commissioner; and
even as president he has gone there
several times. Only few months
ago, he accepted an invitation from
the proprietor, and the affair was
minutely described in the public press.
The Hungarian gtpsy bands, string
quartets, and violin soloists invariably
60 there at nights, after their engage
ments at fashionable uptown resorts
are ended. They are jovfal, good
natured class of people, always ready
to play their very best pieces for the
company IN Houston Street. In fact,
it is here where they are heard to the
best advantage, for they know that
many of their listeners are real critics.
If any one wants to hear Czsrdas played
with vim and gusto, he can be graft.
fed in Houston Street.
The French restaurants are by far
the most interesting of all. Whatever
there Is IN this country Of Bohemian
Life" u - be found there represented
as well as anywhere In the Quarter
Latin of Paris. Unlike similar places
in New Orleans, San Francisco and
Montreal. most of New York's French
restaurants have preserved their
originality. The principal French
hotel, the Hotel Martin. some years ago
moved from it's old stand on University
Place to Broadway, Fifth Avenue and
Twenty-sixth Street, into the old
Delmonico Building. There it upholds
its well-earned reputation; but has lost
in originality. Most of the other French
restaurants are still near Washington
Square, and west from there. The ma
jority of them are conducted in what
appears to be private residences, with.
out any signs or other indications OF
their character. They do not want to
cater to Tom, Dick and Harry. Table
d'hote dinners and suppers (no break
fast) at prices ranging from fifty cents
to one dollar, including one pint bot
tie table claret, are served exclusively
A very nice restaurant to which the
writer used to go occasionally, is or
Tenth Street, west of Sixth Avenue
The charges there for either dinner Of
supper-one is the same as the other
are sixty cents. Last March friends o.
ours from Chicago, strangers in New
York, wished to see Bohemia" tool
them and my wife to this place. Tha
evening shall describe, including tn
menu, and the way it was cooked, fo
only then the reader will be enabled t.
form correct judgment as to VIII
these restaurants are far superior t.
, most others.
We arrived at the house at nine p. n
ring the bell, and we are admitted
with profuse smiles and courtesies
our ladies, by Mademoiselle Fleurettt
the daughter and cashier of the hous'
The large front and rear parlors, q
we'll as three commodious rooms on th
second floor, have been turned int
I diningrooms, filed with large and sma
round tables, all covered with scrul
| ulously white linen and napkins. A
we are early, we find good accomm'
! dations in the parlor. Monsieur
. maltre D'hotel welcomes us with bow
= helps us with our wraps, pulls out tt
chairs for us and makes us comfortabl
J, Being known to him, he takes my han
' and utters q few polite words in Frencl
i but changes into very bad and vel
f broken English as soon as he notic'
q that my friends are not familiar wit
b his language. We give no order, but
q waiter puts three quart BOTTLES Of clar
= la pint for each. Of ius six before N
g and Fleurette brings rosebud foreat
Il Of the three ladies'. After while, ea,
Of MS receives three small blue-poin