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The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • Page 23

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • Page 23

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'I THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 3. 1907.

1 ii tf smm 1 I iff lluji 1 sax i.CSPiL V' Val Schmidt, HofbraMhaus Rcstanrant, tlockwell l'laee and A Fulton St. Centrally Located, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10, A Cozy and Comfortable Place to Dine, sfM Where Theatre Parties Will Find the Most Up-to-Date Service. V- IS SECTION. clans, press agents, etc. It Is one of the Jdaces that a native likes to take some fresh recruit and watch the latter's delight a.t the gay, cosmopolitan scene.

One of charms, of the Beaux-Arts is the music; of which, one Can always expect the unexpected. There is a famous trio of Neapolitan Troubadours whose music suggests something of the blue skies and the dfeamlness and romance of their native land Recently tehre has been an innovation in the way of a quintette of col- -I I- i i I i iiiiiiiiBWWnHllim 1 Brooklyn's Leading Ladies' Gentlemen's Chop House. 0STERH0L0. REAL GERMAN ILJLGEK. BEER.

COR. FULTON ST. AND CLASSON AV. 5 mest Halt Beer rica spirit of music is there at least, and the dpuil ui gayeiy, ana always men and women of various nationalities. The cafe was once but a tiny Hungarian restau Always Open rant for the patronage of the Hungarians DELIVERED TO FAMILIES AT $1.25 A CASE OF 24 PINT BOTTLES.

LIGHT AND DARK. in me neigiiDornood, and there were good things to native dishes that the Hungarians liked, and ('-''' I ffeX EAST fiEW YORK BREWERY. BROOKLYN. PEL BROS. i tists and newspaper men from the neighborhood about.

Musicians, professional men began to like it, a3 well, and every evening an interesting company of them would come and linger for song, music and story telling; after the dinner was cleared away. In its larger up-town ett ROOMS DINING reaorioK scnumm. Cafe, Oyster and Chop. House, 395 Fulton St. 1346 Broadway Near Gates Avenue Tel.

8 Bushwick 758 Broadway Near Flushing Avenue 1565 Broadway Near Halsey Street Tel. 436 Bushwick 1286 Fulton St. Near Nostrand Avenue Tel. 3027 Bedford Tel. 2987 Williamsburg BROOKLYN, N.

Y. -til- yv it ored players kind singers whose songs of the cotton the cake walk have been a delighUtb the cafe devotees. One of the famous restaurants that always suggests Informality and jolly good times is Mouquin's picturesque and typical cafe qf the cosmopolitan city, with much of Paris about it; and much of liroadway. Mouquin's is interestingly housed'' in one of the few really old houses left in New York. It is on Sixth evenue, near Twenty-eighth street.

With the bustle and- roar of traffic in Its ears Vill day it is hard to realize that the place 556 and 558 Fulton St. 13 and 13A Flatbush Ave. BrooKlyn-New York The Elite Restaurant of BrooKlyn Private Dining and tf3 Our -up -in -the Sunshine Mi. 4 4 Restaurant (ievatT) is as dainty to the eye as the foodjs appetizing. was once a larm-house, though It is easy io fancy it dating back two hundred years.

The place always glows at night with many shaded lights. The house looks Gill Silsbee, Of Fllsbce Furman, Fulton and Johnson PLs. You simply pay for the food, no frills. Look in at the kitchen and see how neat. IT CP tn 1 from 3 to 5 P.M.

daily, is a de- Our Kaire Klatscn tSSXmdbmM' email from the outside; but it ha beeu 6pread and stretched and every tiniest corner and cubby.vhole utilized until there Is room for more than a thousand guests to dine, and usually, but, a few seats are vacant. It Is one of the places where eople come to linger through a whole evening and give themselves up to the 1 1 Music of a High Order Not Heard Elsewhere A. Matthews Sons ppirit of the music, applauding and sing some of tho music of their old country. The fame of the place spread with time and up-town crowds began to flock to it until now they have claimed it for their own, though a few of the natives still come and seek a quiet table where they can smoke and listen to the music. Those who know the place in every mood like it best at off times like Sunday mornings when the atmosphere is quieter, but more as it used to be before It came into Its heritage of popularity.

The cafe, which smacks so of Hun- W. C. Osterheld, rrprletor Osterheld Hestaurants. ing, if tney are in the mood, or just watching the swaying, laughing crowds. JIapy college men and newspaper men ore among its regular patrons.

On Second avenue, at Tenth street, in a strange old building, to the very doors ot IOC IOC IOC 301 There Is Only One placo Maria's has become a little moro dignified and Ions informal, but some of its charm has lasted and many of the old patrons are to be found there. Gonfarone's on Macdougal street, is one of the famous little Italian cafes where there is a good table d'hote with wine for a very small sum and where there is company of interesting folk always, who HENRY VOEGE YEDLDE TAVERN 161 DUANE MAN. i i "Ye Olde Tavern" Cafe and Lunch Room i An olde-time Chope House where appetizing dinners can be had in unique surroundings of homely comfort. VIDAL THOMPSON, Hosts Business Men's Lunch FROM 11 TO 2 35 CENTS 653 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Vt 161 Duane Street, New York Dinner, Arranged IOE30I Telephone 0024 Mtiln I i I I im' BRANCH: 264 FLATBUSH AVENUE Telvphone -115 l'l-ospect 0 a 0 a 000 0-0-0-e -0 -0-0--0 men or gay, laughing boys pound on the tables and offer toasts. Little Hungary ha3 grown up and has a slory. It couldn't just happen like it Is now. It was started in the wine cellar of the proprietor, Mr. Shwartz, who used to serve a typical Hungarian dinner for a few, perhaps not more than twenty, ot his fellow countrymen.

On Friday night3 the men began to bring their wives. The place wes unique and New York loves the unique. A newspaper man discovered Ladies' 'and Gentlemen's tered and unmistakable it goes down to Little Hungary In East Houston street, and prepares for a thrill. And usually gets It. The most sluggish and immovable could hardly fail to find something to stir their pulses 'about the famous Houston street place.

When one goes down the little crooked stairs and into the cellar that looks as if it might be Bluebeard's den with casks of wine hugging tho walls, dark brown tints everywhere and mysterious-looking nooks, he receives a thrill that grows. There are usually laughing, chattering groups about who sing, keeping time with their forks or their arms or their feet. A Gypsy band plays and the gypsy tenor sings a joyous love song, tweaking his mustache the while and pressing his hand to his heart In an ecstasy of emotion. Everybody joins into the swinging, swaying song of one sort or another, and nils innumerable glasses of wine from tht strange, cologne-bottle arrangements in the middle of the table, which the waiter refills from tinio to time with different colored sweet stuffs. Stout, apoplectic Oyster and Cbop Rouse Henry Voege, Restaurants at Fulion st.

and 551 Flat-buali v. jhich crowd foreign elements of the ast Side, js a place presenting many anusuat features. This Is the Cafe Boule-fvard. Those who knew the place In other KlaVR SaV that mneh nf ita H3pnp ami gary. occupies a typical mansion of old New York.

Little Hungary Fills the Bill for Bohemian Dining. When New York or the visitor in town wants real Bohemia, tagged, capital-let- Brooklyn, Corner Johnson St. 311 Fulion Tel. 1703 Main. (ilharm have vanished, but newer patrons pina enougn to malte evenings there bother than evenings anywhere else.

The speak several languages and are the kind that one might weave stories and romances about if one's imagination is easily fired. There are innumerable of these little Italian and Frenrh table d'hole places, some of them with a reputation of many years, others kept close among a few for fear of popularizing them. Some HIGHEST RESTAURANT IN THE WORLD; VISIT THE ALPS i 9 Spend an Hour in the Mountains in N. Y. The ti tid a -fY Coziest City MUSIC A LA CARTE st.

L. C. Faccini, p. SIXTH AVE. AND 58TH ST.

Telephone No. 4990 Plaza Proprietor oC Pnntin's "af' en-l uuraut, 4(J I'-ninklin Street. IL It one day In his rounds and brought a few of his friends down to show them. It was the old story. The place began to grow until It now rannot accommodate all those who come on the gala ovciinffs.

1 tetraSwrfeMWi WHERE TO DINE WELL NO. iii-ijson KTltKKT. IN BROOKLYN. C.ir. Hi.

XKW VillIK. i i which are Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The nn the WMt ABRAHAM II" Kultnn St. PECK'S'; f'in. ft'e with uM.f atu ill A.M.

S.J') 1' M.I. On other evenings and during ihe dtty tho place Is still tho haunt of Hungarians and they sit around uncovered tables and chat and drink their Hungarian wines, play cards and are as much at home In Shwartz's larger cafe as they were in tho old cramped wine cellar. In the Old Artist's Colony. Of the old restaurants of the artist colony in Washington Square, one of the few left that has any of the original at- -f 4 i SCHUMM CiiPP HIM, tStt BIIOADWAV iTDCIUn3Q5'i 'libi av Ah l4leul iilnce to Cine. William Schuessler, Pr)prirt-v Ad -lphi Hot-).

Hay. mosphoro about it is Maria's, now moved to West. Forty-first street, Just off Sixth avenue. Maria del Prato has alwavs been fifth street, is also one of tlfe best known of the older Italian cafes. Amo'ig the newer Italian places is rjaf-fanti's in Kvvonth avenue, near Tweuty-siih street, witn its pepper pot soup, over which Americans as well as Italians smack their Iip3 and talk abotit afterward; also spaghetti conked with a mushroom sauce that Is a delicious concoction and sparkling Italian wines.

A cafe that is a special favorite with artists who have begun to convince the public of thc'r worth is the Cafe Francis In Thirty-fifth street. Just off Sixth tile presiding genius of the establishment and for her It is named. When Maria had of the best known of these is J. I). In West Twent y-liith street.

Kovcrsi's In West Twenty-seventh street, and the Lion D'Or in West Twenty-fourth street, the latter having a reasonable table d'hote lunch and dinner thai is in favor dimensions and only a rcw years established, but with much to lend it interest. Ludiow's and Scheffel-Halle. Lui how's, in Fourteenth street, a clo ner small restaurant in Macdougal street, and served famous soups and Neapolitan i spajiettl, roast meats, Italian salads and fruit, cheese and coffee with red wine for 'filly cents it becamn a rendezvous for nr. Garret's, Top ot West Street Building, Manhattaa. witii many.

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