The Gourmet's Guide to Europe

A practical guide for traveling gourmets that surveys restaurants, cafés, and supping-places across European capitals, ports, and resorts. It combines culinary history with concise descriptions of notable establishments, their signature dishes, wine recommendations, and likely bills, plus regional notes on ingredients and cooking styles. Coverage moves through Paris and French provincial towns to Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Spain, Scandinavia, Russia, the Balkans and Mediterranean locales, calling out hotel dining, open-air venues and spa towns. The work aims to help visitors select representative, reliable places to eat while explaining local culinary customs.