Food History

Dinners and Diners

by Nathaniel Newnham-Davis

Nathaniel Newnham-Davis, an army officer turned journalist, reviewed London restaurants for the Pall Mall Gazette, and this book of 1899 collects his dinners, with the bill for each. It goes from the grandest hotels to much humbler rooms. By then the family dining room had a rival: the restaurant.

The librarian

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Reading time

About 5 hr 45 min

Where to find it

On the Food History shelves

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #53079. In the public domain in the United States.