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A Georgian Giles
Coren
Extracts from an
anonymous ‘ Review of Taverns , Inns, Coffee Houses and Genteel Eating Houses’
published in the New London Magazine, July and August 1788.
The web has done part of my work for me by publishing
the first part of this survey of eating places, which appeared in the June 1788
issue of The New London Magazine. Luckily, the second and third parts of this
series remain offline. So here are some of the highlights of this witty and
very politically incorrect survey of eateries in late Georgian London
July 1788
Brentford Eights, an
island in the Thames off Brentford
This is rendered famous for pitch-cock eels. It is likewise celebrated for a very favourite
Dutch dish called Vater Zuchee. This dish is composed of perch, parsley-roots
and vinegar, served up in a deep dish, with slices of bread and butter. The
visitors of the Eights, in gormandising this dish, have no occasion for any
other knives and forks than what nature has given them. It is common to eat with
digits only.
If any stripling of fortune, whether a coxswain of a barge,
or the supercargo of a post chaise, wishes to be indulged, he may be served
here with zouchee
