A REAL CAFE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 78, 2 April 1928, Page 9

A REAL CAFE.

THE GROTTO: THE LSSMAN'b RENjj OUt. "How about meet-.g me at the Grotto —you know, a few yards up Swan?on Street? We can have a cup of coffee and a smoke and t;. it oerin j . e where the phone won't interrupt." Audio it happens that ten minutes taken off from business is not wast 1. Perhaps an important deal results. In any case, the atmosphere is < vhe kinu conducive to profitable conversation. The popularity of the Grotto s due to a large extent to its "atmosphere," for it is one of the few places which is a c«fe in the cosmopolitan sense. For one thing one can ;e 1. j walls are raddle-red and in t 1 .• <lor ay th.re is a miniature tobacconist's stall.

Then they know ..ov to make no essences, but freshly ground beans every day. And, of course, its location is quite u mal. Why Well it would be a good idea to go "there for morning coffee one of these d: rr trv it for afternoon tea, equally well served.

Incidentally, they put on a excell t three-course lunch fc. 1/6. a ] r t of the -Sables arc occu/'ed by the same peop e every da; G .o becom i a habit.