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Military Restaurants There are also two restaurants in which the mili- tary element predominates. These are Toepfer’sand the Prinz Wilhelm, both in the Dorotheenstrasse. Here the officers usually lunch and use the res- Toepfer’s and Prinz Wilhelm Dorotheen- stra taurants as clubs, often bringing their wives. Cafes, Cabarets, AND Bars Bauer’s in Unter den Linden is a well-known cafe, and is much frequented by the Berliners. It is Bauer’s, Unter patronised by a large newspaper reading den Linden public, owing to the fact that there are few of the leading publications in all languages that you will fail to find there. This cafe is crowded in the afternoon and evening. Everything supplied there is of the best quality. The walls are decorated with paintings by Werner. Upstairs, between 5 and 6 p.m., one sees many of the people of the world of the theatres and music-halls. If you wish to see the rowdy student life of Berlin, the Bohemian festivity which corresponds to the life of Paris in the cabarets of Montmartre, and if you speak German, go to the Bauernschanke, which has obtained a celebrity for the violence and rudeness of its proprietor, who, as Lisbonne and Bruant used to do, and Alexander does, in the cabarets of the City of Light, insults his customers to the uttermost and turns out any one who objects. Die Rauberhole is an inferior imitation of Die Bauernschanke. A noted night restaurant is Der Zum Weissen Rossi, in which each room is decorated to represent some typical street in Berlin. This is a hostel much frequented by artists. Berlin 229 The Open Air Restaurants There are two or three cafe restaurants with shady gardens in the Thiergarten, of which one, the Cafe Gartner, on the river close to the CaK Gartner Bellevue Station, is a pleasant place at which to drink afternoon coffee. The cafe and res- taurant in the Zoological Gardens are very popular. At either end of a little lake is a band-stand, and two military bands play alternately in these The Zoological band-stands during the late afternoon Gardens and evening. From band-stand to band-stand stretches a great semi-circle of tables for beer and coffee drinkers, and at the back of this half-moon of tables is a restau- rant with many terraces, where a fixed-price dinner is served from 6 p.m. onwards. When all the tables are occupied, as they are on fine afternoons and evenings, the mass of people eating and drinking and listening to the music is quite one of the sights of Berlin. Berlin Clubs One of the best clubs in Berlin is the Imperial German Automobile Club. The Automobile, Kaiser is a member and patron. The Leipzigerplatz club-house on the Leipzigerplatz was formerly the residence of the Berlin banker Bleichroeder, and is decorated in Louis XVI. style. The entrance fee is 250 marks, the annual subscription 200 marks. There is a club dinner every Wednesday evening in the winter to which guests can be introduced. There is one long table in the centre room and smaller tables for parties. Ladies are admitted as guests on Sunday nights. Members of the Royal Automobile Club of London can become temporary members of the Berlin Club. 230 The Gourmet's Guide to Europe One of the most exclusive clubs in Berlin is the Casino. The club-house is on the Pariserplatz. Casino, Pariser- The Kaiser is patron of this club. Most platz of the members are aristocrats or