The first modern-type cafe was the Cafe Procope which opened in 1696.The French Revolution launched the modern the restaurant industry.Colonial America continued this tradition in the form of legislated Publick Houses.
The first French restaurants [pre-revolution] were not fancy gourmet establishments run by ex-aristocratic chefs.
They were highly regulated establishments that sold restaurants (meat based consommes intended to "restore" a person's strength) to people who were not feeling well.
The son of a landowner and merchant, Roze moved to Paris in the early 1760s and began floating a variety of schemes he believed would enrich him and his country at the same time."
Beauvilliers, 1782 "However, the first Parisian restaurant worthy of the name was the one founded by Beauvilliers in 1782 in the Rue de Richelieu, called the Grande Taverne de Londres.
It relaxed the legal rights of guilds that [since the Middle Ages] were licensed by the king to control specific foods [eg.
the Patissiers, Rotisseurs, Charcutiers] and created a hungry, middle-class customer base who relished the ideals of egalitarianism (as in, anyone who could pay the price could get the same meal).
So, take a stroll down memory lane to remember all of our past Word of the Year selections.
Historians tell us the genesis of food service dates back to ancient times.
Street vendors and public cooks (caterers) were readily available in Ancient Rome.
Medieval travelers dined at inns, taverns, monestaries and hostelries.