1906 A Bachelor's Cupboard

CHAPTER X

" New disbes beget new appetites." San Francisco was a city of restau- rants — the most wonderful restau- rants in all America. With the passing of the old city one shudders to think of the fate of Zinkand's, the Techau Tavern with its sweet-voiced Haw^aiian singers and sadly beautiful native music, Tait's mammoth un- derground palace, the Palace of Art with its wonderful collection of paintings, including a Rosa Bonheur, the new and the old " Poodle Dog " — the latter one of the show places of the Coast. Then there was the newly opened Oyster Grotto, where nothing but shellfish, including the delectable California crabs, was served. There was the Italian cafe of one Coppa on Montgomery Street that had been decorated by the fa-

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