The gourmet's guide to Europe

Strada Covesci the parks and the suburbs. Jonescu in the Strada Covesci is one of the cafetiers whose shop is very popular in the afternoon. Bucarest Clubs The Jockey Club is the most important of the clubs of Bucarest, which are all after the French model. The Jockey Club has a dining-room of the British type. The Military Club, the Tineriniea (the Youth), the Royal, and the Agricol are the other clubs. The last three are hospitably inclined towards travelling Britons who are suitably introduced. Play runs high at the Bucarest clubs. The odds are strongly in favour of a visitor finding on the boards of the big theatre some patriotic national opera or play of many acts, and with scores of characters in it. A little company of French players from the Capucine was at one of the operetta theatres when I made acquaintance with Bucarest, and Viennese operettas were being played at a second. In the hot season the Moulin Rouge and two or three open-air cafe-chantants are amusing places at which to spend an hour. Sinaia Sinaia is the hill station in the Carpathians where the King and Queen of Roumania have built their summer palace. The village is intentionally kept small, and there are only three hotels. Two good express trains run both ways during the day, and the Roumania journey from Bucarest is not a long one, and is interesting. At Ploesci, a junction on the line where all trains stop, there is a refreshment room where a cheap and plentiful table d'hote meal is served. Sinaia is very fashionable in the summer, for most of the ministers and many of the foreign diplomatists follow the King and Queen up to the picturesque village in the woods below the great grey Restaurant crags. Capsa has a gay little restaurant on the Boulevard Chica, a little pavilion of iron and glass, painted and gilt, which is open during the summer months; and George Riegier has a dainty little coffee-house in the Park and terrace and a tiny garden where a cascade falls over miniature boulders next door to one of the bandstands. The Hotel Caraiman, on a hill just above the station, is open summer and winter. In summer it is crowded to its holding capacity. In HoteI Caraiman winter a score or guests have the big hotel to themselves. I can answer for the meals at the hotel being simple and well cooked, and a stranger arriving during the “ off season ” is flattered with much attention. •XV SERVIA The Food of the Country — Belgrade — Kijievo. A walk through the market of Belgrade in the autumn shows at once what there is good to eat in Servia. There is no market in all the south of Europe which can show such colour or such a wonderful choice of fruit. Beans of all kinds and all colours from bright yellow to deep green, crimson tomatoes, peppers orange and green and red, deep scarlet radishes, purple egg-plants, cabbages, lettuces, and onions are cheek by jowl with tubs of honey, piles of cheeses, and great trays of plums and grapes, peaches, apples, and pears. Wholesale buyers come from all over Europe to the Belgrade market to buy fruit, and as the peasants are all in their national costumes, the market place with its rows of acacia and chestnut trees giving shelter to the stalls is a very picturesque sight. Belgrade