The public dinners which take place there in the large banqueting-hall are quite creditable pro- ductions, and the position, view, and fresh air all combine to render it a very pleasant hot-weather resort. The Stadt Gotha is another institution of the town. It advertises an “ English dinner ” in its wine restaurant after 5 p.m., but this stadt Gotha is probably only served during the 11 Schioss- tourist season. Its beer restaurant is strasse large and very popular. Its wine restaurant is small and quaintly decorated. It is very popular with the 1 82 T'he Gourmet's Guide to Europe upper and middle classes and extremely respectable. Its cuisine is very fair, set meals, which, especially supper after the play, are very inexpensive. The 1.50 mark midday table d'hote meal in the beer restaurant is a wonderfully good meal for the price, and the 5-mark set supper in the wine restaurant only errs on the side of heaviness. If you order a la carte , like most other places, it is rather dear. Tiedemann and Grahl’s, in the Seestrasse, is a typical German Weinstube with a large clientele of Tiedemann habitues , mostly men, but ladies can go and Grahl, there. The owners being large wine 9 Seestrasse merchants, have some first-rate wine at prices averaging rather lower than the Eng- lischer Garten. But there is a very extensive list, and the quality is not altogether uniform, so if you can suborn a friendly waiter he will help you considerably. Excellent oysters and smoked • salmon are to be had here, but the place is apt to be rather crowded and noisy. The appointments are of the simplest and most unpretentious kind. Prices, moder- ately high — about two-thirds those of the Englischer Garten. Set meals are served, but a la carte is more usual. The waiters, being institutions like most of the guests, are inclined to be a little off-hand and familiar, and there is altogether a free and easy and homely tone about the place, but it is perfectly respectable. Neues Palais de Saxe, on the Neumarkt, is owned and managed by Herr Muller. Very fair cuisine; Neues Palais good set meals 5 « la "carte rather more de Saxe, Neu- expensive ; specialty made of oysters markt and ecrevisses, which latter are served in all sorts of fascinating ways. Not at all a bad place for supper after the theatre, but perhaps a trifle dull. Kneist, a beer restaurant in a little street off the German Towns 183 Altmarkt, called the Grosse Briidergasse, is managed by the proprietor whose name it bears. It is much frequented by officers and officials. Here you find good plain fare served in the simplest Kneist’s of fashions. Meals are a la carte 2 Grosse Brii- and quite inexpensive ; cuisine purely der&asse German, homely and wholesome, with excellent beer, especially Erlanger. The atmosphere is usually hot, thick, and stuffy, but the clientele does not seem to mind it. In a little back room the principal dignitaries of the Saxon Court, State, and Army are wont to forgather every morning for their Fruhschoppen, — a kind of early, largely liquid, lunch, at which, if rumour can be trusted, a good deal of important business is informally discussed and settled.

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The public dinners which take place there in the large banqueting-hall are quite creditable productions, and the position, view, and fresh air all combine to render it a very pleasant hot-weather resort. The Stadt Gotha is another institution of the town. It advertises an "English dinner" in its wine restaurant after 5 p.m., but this Stadt Gotha is probably only served during the Schlossterist season. Its beer restaurant is large and very popular. Its wine restaurant is small and quaintly decorated. It is very popular with the 1 82 T'he Gourmet's Guide to Europe upper and middle classes and extremely respectable. Its cuisine is very fair, set meals, which, especially supper after the play, are very inexpensive. The 1.50 mark midday table d'hote meal in the beer restaurant is a wonderfully good meal for the price, and the 5-mark set supper in the wine restaurant only errs on the side of heaviness. If you order a la carte, like most other places, it is rather dear. Tiedemann and Grahl's, in the Seestrasse, is a typical German Weinstube with a large clientele of habitues, mostly men, but ladies can go and Grahl, there. The owners being large wine 9 Seestrasse merchants, have some first-rate wine at prices averaging rather lower than the Englischer Garten. But there is a very extensive list, and the quality is not altogether uniform, so if you can suborn a friendly waiter he will help you considerably. Excellent oysters and smoked • salmon are to be had here, but the place is apt to be rather crowded and noisy. The appointments are of the simplest and most unpretentious kind. Prices, moderately high — about two-thirds those of the Englischer Garten. Set meals are served, but a la carte is more usual. The waiters, being institutions like most of the guests, are inclined to be a little off-hand and familiar, and there is altogether a free and easy and homely tone about the place, but it is perfectly respectable. Neues Palais de Saxe, on the Neumarkt, is owned and managed by Herr Muller. Very fair cuisine; good set meals, a la carte rather more de Saxe, Neumarkt, expensive; specialty made of oysters and ecrevisses, which latter are served in all sorts of fascinating ways. Not at all a bad place for supper after the theatre, but perhaps a trifle dull. Kneist, a beer restaurant in a little street off the Altmarkt, called the Grosse Bruedergasse, is managed by the proprietor whose name it bears. It is much frequented by officers and officials. Here you find good plain fare served in the simplest fashions. Meals are a la carte and quite inexpensive; cuisine purely German, homely and wholesome, with excellent beer, especially Erlanger. The atmosphere is usually hot, thick, and stuffy, but the clientele does not seem to mind it. In a little back room the principal dignitaries of the Saxon Court, State, and Army are wont to forgather every morning for their Fruhschoppen, — a kind of early, largely liquid, lunch, at which, if rumour can be trusted, a good deal of important business is informally discussed and settled.

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