FoodNet

The gourmet's guide to Europe

1903

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Presented as published in 1903. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
The Kaiserpalast and the Victoriahaus are other large establishments. The Bierstall in a little street off the Altmarkt is celebrated for its Pilsen beer ; but the atmosphere of the rooms is stifling. Good Munich beer is obtainable at the Zacherlbrau in the Konig Johannstrasse. The table d’hote meals at the principal hotels are neither remarkably good nor remarkably indifferent. The Bellevue has a large verandah, overlooking the Elbe, which forms a pleasant dining-place in the hot weather. Dresden has a golf course of nine holes. AFTER DINNER The performances of opera at the Opera House, open eleven months in the year, are world-famed. The Schausprehaus, for comedy, is also a State under- taking. The Residenz Theater is for light fare, and there are two music halls in Waisenhausstrasse. 184 The Gourmet's Guide to Europe Leipsic The city of books and furs is well provided with restaurants. Historically the most interesting of Auerbach’s these is the Auerbach’s Keller, which Keller, 2 Grim- was one of Goethe’s haunts when he maischestrasse was a student at Leipsic, and which he uses as a background in his Faust , for the scene in which the devil draws various wines from a wooden table. The cellar, which is a wine restaurant, is decorated with mural paintings of the legend on which Faust was based. As these were painted in the sixteenth century, and Goethe was a student in Leipsic in the eighteenth century, it is more than probable that these paintings first suggested to him his great work. A restaurant which is also in Grimmaischestrasse, and has a reputation for good cookery, is Steinmann’s, Steinmann’s while at the corner of this street, which 32 Grimmaische- rivals the Market Place in the number strasse 0f houses Gf refreshment it contains, is the Cafe Frangais, the best of the cafes of the town. Other restaurants of note are those of the New Theatre, which has a terrace, a plea- New Theatre , . , ^ , j r> > sant place in hot weather ; and raege s in the Market Place, with a reputation for good cookery. The Panorama, in Rossplatz, has a garden attached to it. The Burgkeller, in Reichsstrasse, rivals the Auerbach’s Keller in the matter of antiquity. In the Rosenthal, the park outside the city, there are “ restaurations ” at the Schweitzerhaus and at Bonorand, and also at the Zoological Garten, which is close to the park, and in the Palmen-Garten. There is a cafe at Connewitz in the woods to the south-west German ‘Towns 1 8 5 of the city, and an excuse for a drive to Eutritzch may be found in the fact that Ghose, the beer of the locality, may be drunk with content in the gardens of the beer houses of that suburb. AFTER DINNER Leipsic is well provided with theatres and variety halls. The New Theatre, with its terrace overlooking the lake, the Old Theatre, and the Schauspielhaus, are all three generally open, playing opera, comedy, and operetta. Of the variety theatres, of which there are several, the Krystall Palast in Wintergartenstrasse, a large establishment, is the principal one. The Thursday evening concerts in the Gewandhaus have a world-wide fame. Visitors to Leipsic, if they cannot obtain seats for the Thursday evening concert, can generally find vacant places at the public rehearsal on Wednesday morning. Munich