Restaurants Of London Are Expensive: Of restaurant guides published in France, that of the Club des Sans-Club (Club of the Clubless) is among the best. Where to Dine in London and Paris (with street maps), by M. L. Bernhardt (The Ram's Head Press, London) is a handy booklet on gourmetry purchasable in overseas bookstores. TWA, in its excellent nearly-free booklet Travel Tips for France, has a dependable list, as long as Buchwald's, of atmospheric restaurants, including not only the famous temples of French epicurean ism, but garden restaurants for alfresco dining, seafood specialists and round-the-world restaurants of Paris for the food of all nations.
Good Restaurants, with Atmosphere Athens' finest restaurants, of conventional type, and they are a bit on the expensive side, even in dollars, would perhaps be headed by the new Floca and the Zonar, both on Venizelos Avenue, near the Grande Bretagne, followed by Costi's, on Kora'i Street, Dalli's on Jan Smuts Street, Averof, on Churchill Street, and Cellar's, on Kriezotou Street. The Pantheon, a place of rather more popular character, is on Venizelos Avenue. This last is a bright and cheerful establishment with a gay orchestra, and patrons wishing to linger for an hour or two on a mere order of pastry and coffee are not made to feel uncomfortable.
In costs of all the things that are concerned with tourism Britain seems to me to be in the middle register today, by comparison with other countries of Europe, neither very costly nor very cheap. Good meals in good restaurants of London are expensive, but accommodations are not too dear, especially by comparison with those in American cities. Transportation costs are moderate and there are some wonderful bargains in railway travel. There are shopping bargains too, for American and Canadian shoppers now benefit greatly by Britain's Personal Export Scheme and Purchase Tax Coupon Scheme. All of these bargains will be explained in their appropriate sections hereinafter.
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