They are excellent of their sort, though they are
rarely kept long enough in the cellar, and I should certainly advise
their being tried, in preference to paying heavily for _soi-disant_
French brands which in Germany are of very doubtful origin. "Herb" does
not guarantee what we understand by "dry."
If you wish to sample German dishes well and inexpensively, you could
not do better than go to the Ruedesheimer in the Friedrichstrasse. The
house can provide you with an excellent bottle of Rhine wine, having a
special celebrity for this.
The Reichshof, in the Wilhelmstrasse, is a cafe of a more Bohemian
description. It is most frequented towards the evening and for suppers
after the theatres; usually a first-class but very noisy band is engaged
there. It is also a good hotel. It is next door to the British Embassy.
There are also two cafes in which the military element predominates, one
might almost say exclusively. These are Topfer's and the Prinz Wilhelm,
both in the Dorotheenstrasse. Here the officers usually lunch and make a
general rendezvous, often bringing their wives.
There are, of course, plenty of suburban cafes open in the summer, but
they are more refreshment establishments, and appeal rather to the
general public than to the higher class; they are opened or closed
according to the seasons.
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