A feast for two bob
-and no tips!
JAK and I, bon viveurs these many years, are only
too well acquainted with the gay, entrancing world of London-afterdark.
We know where to dine and where to wine. Hoteliers and head-waiters purr at our approach. We are decidedly carriage trade, definitely in the upper reaches of the social swim.
disposal of
So much so that it has been suggested that we now plare
at the our unrivalled bid-and-tucker knowledge our less sophisticated fellow citizens,
With the best people back upon the Combridge Circus end from the beaches, ind
with
Motor Show visitors splashing expense accounts all over the place, I was felt that a few well-chosen words from us on Where to Eat in Town might und offer exclient, novelty zest to the more adventurous appetites anong you.
First, however, it must be made quite elehr that we har bour no prejudice against the
Saypy, Claridges, Charles Forte, Joe Lyons, the charcoal grills, or the more exotic sackerjes of Soho, Chelsea and Hampstead,
Indeed, we are all for them, and are quile willing to prove it at any time convenient to our hosts.
We have no time for in sular intakes. The haute cuisine Francais is strictly Jak will scoff
for
us.
of Shaftesbury Avenue,
It is here you with find, amid the blazing lights of the mighty metropolis, one of London's few reslourants, It la open-air about ten feet square, 15 anchored to the kerb, and offers you a delightful air of inform- ality with the greetings of the d'hotel proprietor, the maitre
+
JAK
and
GEORGE
provide a new-style
Guide for Gourmets
(with or without
gipsy violins)
you, monsieur, and
fack Freeman for." Gays Mr Hoffman, Elleen, at the Green Gale fish
ALDE TELL & SHELLFISHTM
·PERS FELS
3CHTERED FOR.
hind the head wiler. Their name is Joe Pegg, and I Joe
Steele, isn't around, his son, Johnny, madume, Jos will conjure will do the honours.
"Mun and boy on our Pien, the pinkeat of prawns at 45. a pint, maybe a mussel Majesty the Queen to de.. and still comes in pretty regu or two at ninepence a light your plate, and, of course, wide range of cockles and whelks at prices strictly in line with current market trends.
When Jak and I dropped in liquid refreshment. We particu the you, marble tables, under real distinguished customer-Tommy Side, for a moderate outlay of
other night, we were larly recommend the Marquia of two shillings. gas mantles, and with a
A trifte exotle, I imow, But I quickly appraised of, what was Granby, the Lord Nelson, and can only say that, lashed uptby wrong with Arsenal, and what the Bricklayer's Arms, tasteful etching of Her
and his wife, we could do with Mr. Galtskell. P.S. It has been brought to our attention that our gour met guide contains no reference to the products of the vine. We apologise, and hasten to add that all the historic places mentioned are within a stone's throw
All English
is
The PORE speciality anguilles en gelee, but not to worry. No foreign language embarrasses the menti-card would-be epicure In Earthan
248 oyo you wistfully recalling the magic shop in the Old Kent Read, it savour 'Arry's stove-hot moment when Tommy slipped is food for the angels. Especially
away from a Command Par- the crackly bits, formance rehearsal for a double portion.
sacrifice.
Yes, a proud man is Mr Harry Hoffman as he comes forward, beuring, bald, and oproned, to bid you welcome to Joyce's Pie
You would like to hob-nob Shop. Street. All you do is walk up with the famous? And so you point unerringly to the bowl of
vite you to leave the some-
Finally, there must be mention of that codest and most inti- mate of the capital's materics - the ecfTee stall.
́escargols and scampi pro. Jollied Eels and say: "Give us shall, For we would now in here, on these very benches, that Templed by an almost embar- London's coffee stalls gleam but
vencale with the best of them. Both of us, let's face it, can put on a pretty fair show with the shish kebab, the smoked sturgeon, and the bamboo shoots.
Nor are we at all intimidated by pizza, cheese blintzes, chopp- ed chicken liver, or schnitzel - provided they come separately.
The research
But these are run-of-the-mill meals, and need not be dwelt In- upon by the connoisseur. stead, we would prefer that unr Guide for Gourmets be concern- ed with establishments hitherto unrevealed, in the public sheets, known to the discerning and the discriminating alone, and dis- covered by Jak and myself only after years of methodical, costly and often during research into the philosophy of a-little-of-what- you-fancy-does-you-good.
Let us begin in the heart of, London's theatre-land.
Here, If you wish, you may dine like an Italian, a Turk, a Tyrolean, or Hottentot, with or without gipsy violins.
But If, occasionally, Your digestive Julces have the urge for something different, I sug- gest you take a stroll in the quiet autumn evening towards where busy Earlham Street bursts like a madcap debulante
two bobs-worth, Joc."
times garish glitter of the
e
And so he should be. For it is
many of the elite of the land have eaten their fill of Fle and It is us simple as that, No bustling West End are come,
without. waiting, no tipping for a top indead, to a more sedate, more me with Liquor, others
quarter of the tabic, no clutching hand from circumspect
Ccminonweal Li Tower Bridge. the hal-check girl.
Roak
If you wish; you may clasp your five pieces of excellent vel Here again you will meet ro in a carton and bear them eway irksome formalitics, You to come quiet corner of your merely rap-an the counter, ask for 'Arry and in no time al ali own. But for, the 713021- about-town It is on-the-spot you will be embraced within consumption, liberally pepper- that ble brotherhood
Fic, incisive thrives, on
Mash, and spiced with ed, and comment on the affairs of the Liquor.
Honest pride
We come next to Fish..cnd Chips, on which aromatic and pppetising dish I have to con-
Regrettably, under the reignt. fess a sligh: difference
of less and sizzling attacks of 'the with opinion
my colleague, espresso machine, the lights of rassing abundance of emporia, ntfully these nights, Jak and I have on occasion enterprising gourmand will not to patronise his own favourite chosen to part company, each easily be our
enterer,
It is not really a base of con- just cafe of those trivial things just that Jak likes to eat the stiff out of The Times and I off o plate,
tention between us.
With Inborn delicacy, dignity and restraint, 'Arry takes in- Sat ordinate pains not to advertise However, we would be the the names of his ennobled ellen- last to let personal Idiosyncrasies tele. But the honest pride of defect us from duty.
day by the proprietor himself. Elevenpence a plate
You do not like jellied and served with prompt. reassured. For ness and precision on real eels? Be
olivetti
After
but the
n fancy for If you, have Brisket, Liver Sausage, or Faled Egg on Breed, Jak and I have pleasure in recommending. he
THE olde-worlde Chez Les alght-nook near the railings in Norfolk Square, on the north- cast corner of Paddington Sta- tion.
Mr Leslie Goodwin, your
of.
Fancy
GEORGE
WHITING
(London Express Service.)
That
WELDER William Madden fell 40 feet down the inside of a ship's funnel at Liverpool the other day. He escaped with a shaking and shock.
THE first person to be prosecuted, under new by-laws, for keeping a book from Durham County Council libraries for over 14 days was fined £1 at Conselt, County Durham, recently. The title of the book! "Find a Victim,"
WOMAN Toronto to
the restaurateur occasionally Intense research, from cod fillets host, is a busy man. but neither
overcomes his scruples, and 11 15 to rock-sulmon, we are agreed he nor his customers is ever too A Montreal (Flight No. 1850). But she bearded the wron then that he will gaze, mistily that the best buy in town this preoccupied for an Informative Into the October twilight and Season is Middle of Skate, vord, with the nocturnal travel- reveal the identity of his most with Chips and Gherkins on the ler.
plane (No. 850) and flew to London, Trans-Canada Airline gave her a meal-and flew her to Montreal. Airline commbat: "Mexi unfortunate."
Chess News
by LEONARD BARDEN
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The team is. In board order. Penrose Alexander, Clarke, Barden, Wade. Milner - Barry, Lloyd, Mardie. Cafferty, and Littlewood.
The only new member is the Cambridge University captain, KW Lloyd, who earned his place by anishing fourth in the British championship.
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