Dux-de-Lux Restaurant 41 Hereford Street Phone 66-919 B.Y.O.

Press, 9 February 1983, Page 16

Dux-de-Lux Restaurant 41 Hereford Street Phone 66-919 B.Y.O.

(By A. K. GRANT) In. the days of my youth, the building now partially occupied by the Dux-de-Lux was the Student Union building on the old University site, and many a meal of water sausages and particleboard potato I consumed there. Things may not have improved as far as the University itself is concerned, that institution now devoting itself to the ruthless internal

assessment of terrified students, but the food on the corner of Hereford and Montreal Streets has picked up somewhat. Dux-de-Lux, as is wellknown. is a vegetarian restaurant. This is, as Sellars and Yeatman would have said, a good thing — human beings have little to be proud of in respect of their carnivorous nature. The only difference between the Hon feasting on the entrails of the antelope and the man moodily munching a chop in St Albans is that the man moodily munching the chop in St Albans has, in effect, paid someone else to do his eviscerating for him. But it is good that there are vegetarian restaurants, where, at least for the space of one meal, we can transcend our animal natures and aspire to the status of a higher species. Speaking of higher species, my wife and I went to Dux-de-Lux for lunch one recent fine Friday. The place was enormously popular, partly, no doubt, because it is possible to eat outdoors. We had to wait some time in a very long queue, which was, however, efficiently served.