Glace Frascati.
Dessert.

The Hotel de Normandie is another hostel at which the cooking is good
and the wines excellent. This is a menu of a _table-d'hote diner maigre_
served there on Good Friday, and it is an excellent example of a meal
without meat:--

Bisque d'Ecrevisses.
Reine Christine.
Filets de Soles Normandy.
Nouillettes Napolitaine en Caisse.
Saumon de la Loire Tartare.
Sorbets Supreme Fecamp.
Coquille de Homard a l'Americaine.
Sarcelles sur Canape.
Salade panachee.
Asperges d'Argenteuil Mousseline.
Petits Pois au Sucre.
Glace Quo Vadis.
Petits Fours. Corbeille de Fruits.
Dessert.

The cooking at the Continental Hotel is reported as being good, but its
wine-list does not meet with so much praise. The Burgundies, red and
white, at the Hotel du Bordeaux are highly praised.

One of my correspondents sends me an account of Perrier's, a little
restaurant, which I give in his own words. "The quaintest and most
original place in Havre is a little restaurant on the quay, opposite
where the Trouville boats start from. It is known equally well as
'Perier's' or the Restaurant des Pilotes. It is kept by one Buholzer,
who was at one time _chef_ at Rubion's in Marseilles. He afterwards was
_chef_ on one of the big Transatlantique boats, where he learnt to mix a
very fair cocktail. The entrance is through a tiny cafe with sanded
tiled floor. Thence a corkscrew staircase leads to a fair-sized room on
the first floor. All the food you get there is excellent, and
_Bouillabaisse_ or _Homard a l'Americaine_ 'constructed' by the boss, is
a joy, not for ever, but in the case of the first named, for some time.
The house does not go in for a very varied selection of wines, but what
there is is good. Ask for their special roll." The same correspondent
goes on to tell me that the proprietor of the Broche a Rotir at
St-Adresse, who used to be his own _chef_, and attained much local
celebrity, has sold the goodwill, but that the place is still to be
commended, and that Bequet of the Restaurant Bequet can, if he likes,
cook the best dinner in the department; but that you must find him in
the mood.

Of cafes in Havre, the Cafe Prader, near the theatre, and the Paris are
the two where the drinkables are sure to be of good quality.

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