Your gourmet type
❖ The Classicist
The dish the room has served for a hundred years.
You trust institutions: a brasserie with tiled walls and waiters who have outlasted governments, a Schnitzel done properly, a sole filleted at the table, a Martini at a bar with Picassos. Trends amuse you; tradition feeds you. You have a favourite table and you are known there.
Your evening: Lunch at the grand brasserie, the classic dish and nothing clever, a coffee house afterwards and dinner somewhere with white jackets.
Signature dish
Wiener SchnitzelYour tables
Five restaurants for this type.
BrasserieIconZurich · Bellevue
Kronenhalle
Picassos on the wall, Geschnetzeltes on the plate
BrasserieIconParis · Saint-Germain
Brasserie Lipp
Saint-Germain’s political theatre
BrasserieIconVienna · Innere Stadt
Plachutta Wollzeile
Tafelspitz in copper pots
BrasserieIconBerlin · Mitte
Borchardt
The schnitzel of the republic
BrasserieIconLondon · Piccadilly
The Wolseley
The grand café on Piccadilly
The other types
How the others eat.
✦ The Purist
Twenty courses, one counter, no phone.
♛ The Hedonist
Truffles, a big cut of beef, and the bottle nobody else dared to order.
✧ The Explorer
The new place nobody can pronounce yet.
☼ The Sun Seeker
Barefoot, a whole grilled fish, the sun going down.
✶ The Socialite
The table everyone wants, at the hour everyone arrives.