Still Earlier Antedating of "Restaurant"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 3/13/2010 09:51 PM, Shapiro, Fred wrote:
>And still earlier:
>
>1806 John Pinkerton _Recollections of Paris in the years 1802-3-4-5_
>II. 469 (Google Books)  If a _restaurant_ be established, it shall
>not be permitted to take eatables, or drink beer or wine in the
>reading-room, billiard-room, or gaming-room, but only in those
>destined for that use.

How *did* you find this?  The first hit I got from Bungle Books was
"Alice's restaurant: a screenply, 1070; the second :"United Stated
code service, 1700.  I gave up.

Joel

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