"Dr. Kathleen Pereillo" <pereillo at optonline.net> writes: > >>Damien Sullivan wrote: > > >>#*shrug* Someone has to be first. The first restaurant in the Empire > wasn't > >>#started that long ago, probably within one Dragaeran lifetime. > > >Mark A. Mandel wrote: > > >Valabar's has been there for "hundreds of years", which sounds like > >since shortly after the Interregnum. > > ...Delurk... Welcome! > Having just re-read FYA: Daro boasts of Valabar's to Khaavren; and > depending upon how long she has been to Court, Valabar's was already an > established restaurant (pre-Interregnum). Good catch. I see two references in chapter 21, including: "What food to you enjoy?" "Ah, I am from Adrilankha, with (sic) boasts Valabar's, with which even his Majesty's meals cannot compare." There's also a comparison to Valabar's in chapter 19. (I'm playing with with a book-text search engine, in development for the new Dragaera site. The version of 500YA in it is based on the manuscript, rather than the published text.) -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / New TMDA anti-spam in test John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Book log: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/ New Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info