PARIS RESTAURANTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18861, 8 November 1924, Page 6 (Supplement)

PARIS RESTAURANTS.

Given a good digestion, it is possible (writes'a Parisien in an exchange), dietwfcicaliy speaking, to make a tonr of the world during a short stay in Paris. All the kitchens of the globe are to be found between- the heights of Montmartrc and the Mont de Sainte Genevieve. A few yards from the Pantheon, where , one can visit the tombs of Voltaire and Emile Zola, in the narrow Rue Sainte Genevieve, there is a small restaurant, where, without increase in prices, you are re- ; ceived in becoming Slav fashion into a simple Russian setting. Above the entrance you will read, " Le Pain et le Sel," anil inside Muscovite specialities, none lacking, will await you. China also is not far away . . . there

are now at least half-a-dozen Far Eastern restaurants in Paris, more or Jess luxurious, more or less cheap. That opposite the Luxembourg, in the short Rue RoverCoilard, is, so to speak, frequented only by " Celestials " who, with the help of the famous chopsticks, absorb quantities of rice, followed by fragrant exotic products, fish, confitures, bamboo shoots, etc. Again, on the left bank of the Seine, • one can imagine oneself making a short trip to the United States in the Little Brown Jug, situated near the Odeon Theatre, at the foot of the Rue Monsieur le Prince. - For other countries of the world, the river must be crossed; but with the exception of the numerous Italian restaurants— there are at least ten on the Grands Boulevards—the majority of these foreign eating establishments are rather expensive. In the Rue Pigalle, Holland is discovered, with its thick pea soup, its sausages and cabbage, its Levdon cheese, and black bread. The Spaniards have chosen their domicile in the Rue de Helder, and offer you their famous dishes of fish fried in oil, rather strong iu taste, but not disagreeable, the fragrant Tourons of Saint Sebastian and the heavy wines of Malaga, Alicante. Xeres. The Swiss, hidden in the sombre Rue de la Sourdiere, near the Palais Roy ale, invite you at the sign of I'Ami Fritz to come and taste their fondue au

fromage sprinkled with a Valais wine. Last, but not overlooked, England itself possesses its inns in the Rue d'Amsterdam, at the exit to the Gare Saint Lazare.