The man who has often picked his food from baskets of scraps where the restaurateurs put their refuse, which are emptied at six o'clock every morning-that man is not likely to recoil before any means,-avowable, of course.
"The Lesser Bourgeoisie"
Honore de Balzac
I agree with him fully in the last; and if I were forced to allow the first, I should still think, with our old coarse by-word, that the same power which furnished all their former restaurateurs sent also their present cooks.
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VI. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke
Very is, indeed, no longer the prince of restaurateurs.
"Pelham, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton Last Updated: March 16, 2009