Henrion’s Grand Hotel is the favourite dining- place of the Anglo-Saxon colony in Aachen. M. Intra, the proprietor, lays himself out Henrion’s, to attract the English. The German Corneliusbath civil servants and the doctors have a club-table at which they dine, and they exact fines from the members of their club for drinking wine which costs more than a certain price, &c. &c., these fines being collected in a box and saved until they make a sum large enough to pay for a special dinner. Every member of this club is required to leave in his will a money legacy to the club to be expended in wine drunk to his memory. There are two table d'hote meals, at 1.30 and at 7 p.m. At the first the dishes are cooked according to the German cuisine, at the second according to the French. Suppers are served in the restaurant at any hour. Lennertz’s restaurant and oyster-saloon in the Klostergasse is a curious, low-ceilinged, old-fashioned house which, before Henrion’s came Lennertz’s, into favour, had most of the British Klostergasse patronage. Its cooking is excellent, and the German Hausfraus used to be sent to Lennertz’s to study for their noble calling. The carte de jour has not many dishes on it. Everything has to be ordered a la carte , but the prices are all reasonable, and it is possible to make a bargain that a dinner shall be given for a fixed price. The Omelettes Soujjlees are a specialty of the house. The fish used in Lennertz’s comes from Ostende, and the Dutch oysters are excellent. 20 8 The Gourmet's Guide to Europe Some of the magnificent Moselle wine laid down by the late proprietor is still obtainable. A new restaurant, the Carlton, is a feature of the good old-fashioned Grand Monarque Hotel. Scheufen Kremer’s Restaurant, opposite the theatre, has good cookery, but is expensive. Eulenspiegel is an establishment which is worth a visit. It is in Kramerstrass. The Alt-Bayern in Wirischsbongardstrasse is the beer-house which is most to be recommended ; and the Germania, in Friedrich-Williamplatz, is celebrated for its coffee. AFTER DINNER The large theatre is only open in the winter. The Eden, in Franzstrass, is the music hall of the town. Hamburg Hamburg is a town of good eating and good drinking. The restaurant above all others which Pfordte’s has given lt its celebrity in this respect Restaurant, is Pfordte’s Restaurant, which used An der Alster to be jn the Rathhaus Gardens, but which has now been moved to the Atlantic Hotel, An der Alster. Pfordte’s Restaurant, in its different habitations, dates back to the year 1828, when it was established in one of the numerous cellars which are in the basements of many of the houses near the Alster and the Bourse: These cellars have as their specialties oysters, lobsters and other shell-fish, game and truffles, and they are much frequented by business men for luncheon and by playgoers for supper after the theatre. Herr Pfordte, who had become director of this cellar in i860, moved it to the street which runs from the Alster Dam to the Rathhaus Gardens, and there, at the corner of the gardens, established the German \ Towns 209

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Henrion’s Grand Hotel is the favourite diningplace of the Anglo-Saxon colony in Aachen. M. Intra, the proprietor, lays himself out Henrion’s, to attract the English. The German Corneliusbath civil servants and the doctors have a club-table at which they dine, and they exact fines from the members of their club for drinking wine which costs more than a certain price, &c. &c., these fines being collected in a box and saved until they make a sum large enough to pay for a special dinner. Every member of this club is required to leave in his will a money legacy to the club to be expended in wine drunk to his memory. There are two table d'hote meals, at 1.30 and at 7 p.m. At the first the dishes are cooked according to the German cuisine, at the second according to the French. Suppers are served in the restaurant at any hour. Lennertz’s restaurant and oyster-saloon in the Klostergasse is a curious, low-ceilinged, old-fashioned house which, before Henrion’s came Lennertz’s, into favour, had most of the British Klostergasse patronage. Its cooking is excellent, and the German Hausfraus used to be sent to Lennertz’s to study for their noble calling. The carte de jour has not many dishes on it. Everything has to be ordered a la carte , but the prices are all reasonable, and it is possible to make a bargain that a dinner shall be given for a fixed price. The Omelettes Soufflées are a specialty of the house. The fish used in Lennertz’s comes from Ostende, and the Dutch oysters are excellent. 20 8 The Gourmet's Guide to Europe Some of the magnificent Moselle wine laid down by the late proprietor is still obtainable. A new restaurant, the Carlton, is a feature of the good old-fashioned Grand Monarque Hotel. Scheufen Kremer’s Restaurant, opposite the theatre, has good cookery, but is expensive. Eulenspiegel is an establishment which is worth a visit. It is in Kramerstrass. The Alt-Bayern in Wirischsbongardstrasse is the beer-house which is most to be recommended ; and the Germania, in Friedrich-Williamplatz, is celebrated for its coffee. The large theatre is only open in the winter. The Eden, in Franzstrass, is the music hall of the town. Hamburg Hamburg is a town of good eating and good drinking. The restaurant above all others which Pfordte’s has given lt its celebrity in this respect Restaurant, is Pfordte’s Restaurant, which used An der Alster to be jn the Rathhaus Gardens, but which has now been moved to the Atlantic Hotel, An der Alster. Pfordte’s Restaurant, in its different habitations, dates back to the year 1828, when it was established in one of the numerous cellars which are in the basements of many of the houses near the Alster and the Bourse: These cellars have as their specialties oysters, lobsters and other shell-fish, game and truffles, and they are much frequented by business men for luncheon and by playgoers for supper after the theatre. Herr Pfordte, who had become director of this cellar in i860, moved it to the street which runs from the Alster Dam to the Rathhaus Gardens, and there, at the corner of the gardens, established the German \ Towns 209

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