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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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