The hotels at Homburg are always quite full in the
season. No hotel-keeper puts any pressure on his
guests to dine at his hotel, and you may have your
bedroom in one hotel and dine at another every
night of your life so far as the proprietors care. The
restaurant at the Kurhaus goes up and down in
public favour. The alterations made to the Kurhaus in
1907, which has given it new reading and writing,
card, billiard, and smoking rooms, have made it once
again fashionable to dine on the Kurhaus terrace.
Herr Matthay, who is the director of the restaurant,
has risen from the ranks, and remembers all the celeb-
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rities who used to dine and sup at the Kurhaus in
the old gaming days. All the world always goes to
the terrace later in the evening to walk up and down
while the band plays.
The Golf Club has a course amongst the trees
which has now been extended to eighteen holes.
Golfers says that if you acquire a taste for the game
on the Homburg links you appreciate its novelties
immensely.
Wiesbaden
At Wiesbaden you generally dine where you sleep,
in your hotel. I myself have generally stayed at the
Kaiserhof, because I like to eat my supper on its
creeper-hung terrace and look across the broad valley
to the Taunus hills ; but there are half-a-dozen hotels
in the town (the Nassauerhof in particular, which
many people consider the best hotel in Germany)
having capital restaurants, serving table d'hote meals,
attached to them. The Rose has a little terrace,
looking on to the gardens, which is a pleasant supping
place.
Herr Ruthe’s Restaurant at the Kurhaus is the
one quite first-class dining place not attached to an
Ruthe’s, Kur- hotel. In the winter, in the dining-
haus room and the glassed-in verandah, and
in summer under the little trees, with the lake in
full view, all the people who have grown weary of
looking at the same faces in their hotel restaurants
may be found eating their dinners. Herr Ruthe is
always to be found somewhere in the establishment,
and any diner who does not know the resources of
the establishment cannot do better than consult him
before ordering dinner.
The Foyer Restaurant in the Royal Theatre is a
quiet and pleasant place at which to take meals in the
daytime.
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The wine-house, the Rathskeller, is one of the
sights of the place. Therein are quaint frescoes and
furniture, there the usual German food is obtainable,
and you have a choice of German wines such as
is obtainable in few other wine-drinking places in
Germany.
Any one who likes the open tarts of apple and
other fruits — a rather sticky delicacy it always seems
to me — can eat them at ease of an afternoon looking
at the beautiful view from the Neroberg or watching
the Rhine from under the trees of the hotel gardens
at Biebrich.
AFTER DINNER
The Royal Opera House is a very splendid one,
and the Kaiser takes special interest in the perform-
ances given there. The Residenz Theater has been
rebuilt on a better site than the old one occupied.
Walhalla is the variety theatre.
Baden-Baden
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The hotels at Homburg are always quite full in the season. No hotel-keeper puts any pressure on his guests to dine at his hotel, and you may have your bedroom in one hotel and dine at another every night of your life so far as the proprietors care. The restaurant at the Kurhaus goes up and down in public favour. The alterations made to the Kurhaus in 1907, which has given it new reading and writing, card, billiard, and smoking rooms, have made it once again fashionable to dine on the Kurhaus terrace. Herr Matthay, who is the director of the restaurant, has risen from the ranks, and remembers all the celeb-
202 The Gourmet's Guide to Europe
rities who used to dine and sup at the Kurhaus in the old gaming days. All the world always goes to the terrace later in the evening to walk up and down while the band plays.
The Golf Club has a course amongst the trees which has now been extended to eighteen holes. Golfers says that if you acquire a taste for the game on the Homburg links you appreciate its novelties immensely.
Wiesbaden
At Wiesbaden you generally dine where you sleep, in your hotel. I myself have generally stayed at the Kaiserhof, because I like to eat my supper on its creeper-hung terrace and look across the broad valley to the Taunus hills ; but there are half-a-dozen hotels in the town (the Nassauerhof in particular, which many people consider the best hotel in Germany) having capital restaurants, serving table d'hote meals, attached to them. The Rose has a little terrace, looking on to the gardens, which is a pleasant supping place.
Herr Ruthe’s Restaurant at the Kurhaus is the one quite first-class dining place not attached to an Ruthe’s, Kur- hotel. In the winter, in the dininghaus room and the glassed-in verandah, and
in summer under the little trees, with the lake in full view, all the people who have grown weary of looking at the same faces in their hotel restaurants may be found eating their dinners. Herr Ruthe is always to be found somewhere in the establishment, and any diner who does not know the resources of the establishment cannot do better than consult him before ordering dinner.
The Foyer Restaurant in the Royal Theatre is a quiet and pleasant place at which to take meals in the daytime.
German Towns 203
The wine-house, the Rathskeller, is one of the sights of the place. Therein are quaint frescoes and furniture, there the usual German food is obtainable, and you have a choice of German wines such as is obtainable in few other wine-drinking places in Germany.
Any one who likes the open tarts of apple and other fruits — a rather sticky delicacy it always seems to me — can eat them at ease of an afternoon looking at the beautiful view from the Neroberg or watching the Rhine from under the trees of the hotel gardens at Biebrich.
The Royal Opera House is a very splendid one, and the Kaiser takes special interest in the performances given there. The Residenz Theater has been rebuilt on a better site than the old one occupied. Walhalla is the variety theatre.
Baden-Baden