CONTENTS
| [FOREWORD] | Page |
| The Difficulties of Dining | xvii |
| [CHAPTER I] | |
| Princes' Hall (Piccadilly) | 1 |
| [CHAPTER II] | |
| The Cheshire Cheese | 9 |
| [CHAPTER III] | |
| The Holborn | 15 |
| [CHAPTER IV] | |
| Romano's | 22 |
| [CHAPTER V] | |
| Simpson's | 31 |
| [CHAPTER VI] | |
| The Hans Crescent Hotel | 38 |
| [CHAPTER VII] | |
| The Blue Posts (Cork Street) | 45 |
| [CHAPTER VIII] | |
| Verrey's (Regent Street) | 51 |
| [CHAPTER IX] | |
| The Hotel Cecil (the Strand) | 59 |
| [CHAPTER X] | |
| Gatti's (the Strand) | 67 |
| [CHAPTER XI] | |
| The Savoy (Thames Embankment) | 73 |
| Joseph at the Savoy | 82 |
| [CHAPTER XII] | |
| The St. George's Café (St. Martin's Lane) | 89 |
| [CHAPTER XIII] | |
| Willis's Rooms (King Street) | 95 |
| [CHAPTER XIV] | |
| Le Restaurant des Gourmets (Lisle Street) | 102 |
| [CHAPTER XV] | |
| The Trocadero (Shaftesbury Avenue) | 108 |
| [CHAPTER XVI] | |
| The American Bar, Criterion (Piccadilly Circus) | 116 |
| [CHAPTER XVII] | |
| The Hotel Continental (Regent Street) | 122 |
| [CHAPTER XVIII] | |
| The Avondale (Piccadilly) | 128 |
| [CHAPTER XIX] | |
| The Mercers' Hall (Cheapside) | 137 |
| [CHAPTER XX] | |
| In —— Street | 143 |
| [CHAPTER XXI] | |
| A Regimental Dinner (Hotel Victoria, | |
| Northumberland Avenue) | 149 |
| [CHAPTER XXII] | |
| Dieudonné's (Ryder Street) | 156 |
| [CHAPTER XXIII] | |
| The Berkeley (Piccadilly) | 162 |
| [CHAPTER XXIV] | |
| The Ship (Greenwich) | 175 |
| [CHAPTER XXV] | |
| The House of Commons | 182 |
| [CHAPTER XXVI] | |
| Earl's Court | 189 |
| [CHAPTER XXVII] | |
| The Star and Garter (Richmond) | 196 |
| [CHAPTER XXVIII] | |
| The Cavour (Leicester Square) | 203 |
| [CHAPTER XXIX] | |
| The Café Royal (Regent Street) | 209 |
| [CHAPTER XXX] | |
| Frascati's (Oxford Street) | 218 |
| [CHAPTER XXXI] | |
| The Freemasons' Tavern (Great Queen Street) | 224 |
| [CHAPTER XXXII] | |
| Scott's (Piccadilly Circus) | 231 |
| [CHAPTER XXXIII] | |
| The East Room (Criterion, Piccadilly Circus) | 237 |
| [CHAPTER XXXIV] | |
| The Monico (Shaftesbury Avenue) | 247 |
| [CHAPTER XXXV] | |
| Goldstein's (Bloomfield Street) | 253 |
| [CHAPTER XXXVI] | |
| The Tivoli (the Strand) | 259 |
| [CHAPTER XXXVII] | |
| The Gordon Hotels (Northumberland Avenue) | 266 |
| [CHAPTER XXXVIII] | |
| The Queen's Guard (St. James's Palace) | 272 |
| [CHAPTER XXXIX] | |
| The Coburg (Carlos Place) | 279 |
| [CHAPTER XL] | |
| The Midland Hotel (St. Pancras) | 285 |
| [CHAPTER XLI] | |
| Kettner's (Church Street) | 291 |
| [CHAPTER XLII] | |
| Pagani's (Great Portland Street) | 297 |
| [CHAPTER XLIII] | |
| Claridge's (Brook Street) | 304 |
| [CHAPTER XLIV] | |
| Hotel de Paris (Leicester Place) | 311 |
| [CHAPTER XLV] | |
| The Walsingham House (Piccadilly) | 317 |
| [CHAPTER XLVI] | |
| Challis's (Rupert Street) | 324 |
| [CHAPTER XLVII] | |
| Epitaux's (The Haymarket) | 330 |
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