Restaurant (1766)

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   OED and Merriam-Webster have 1827 for "restaurant," although OED's entry notes that it started in Paris in 1765.  There's been a new book on the subject that I'll have to check.

BOSWELL
ON THE GRAND TOUR
ITALY, CORSICA, AND FRANCE
1765-1766
edited by Frank Brady and Frederick A. Pottle,
Yale University
McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., NY
1955

Pg. 257 (1766, THURSDAY 2 JANUARY):
   A restaurant keeper just by Le Blanc's furnished me dinner and half a bottle of wine for three livres, and Etienne, my _valet de place_, was very active and had the name of "l'eveille."