Chez Berthelsen

Chez Berthelsen was a restaurant in the city of Landing in the Star Kingdom of Manticore.
Established by Thorvald Berthelsen in 1649 PD in a low-lying, four story building near the newly built Landing Opera House, it was Landing's second oldest continuously operating restaurant by the early 1900s PD, renowned for the peerless quality of its kitchens, the range of its menu, its wine cellar, and list of liqueurs. Additionally, its three hectare location, barely a kilometer from the Parliament Building, was obscenely valuable.
Chez Berthelsen attracted the upper crust of Manticoran society with its promise of a private dining experience, free from interruption, disturbance, and inconvenient publicity. In 1906 PD, it was said that three quarters of Landing's political deals and half its business mergers were sealed in Chez Berthelsen's private dining rooms. Additionally, it was rumored that the same dining rooms had hosted almost that many assignations between wealthy clients with esoteric tastes and the courtesans that served them.
Less well known, though the Landing City Police Department was well-informed on the matter, was the number of criminal deals that had been sealed at Chez Berthelsen.
In March 1906 PD, Lord Pavel Young, Earl of North Hollow, and Georgia Sakristos met with Denver Summervale in Chez Berthelsen's Cargill Room to discuss the assassination of Honor Harrington. ()
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