DINING OUT OF DOORS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
SIR,-I was interested in the letter on this subject which appeared in your issue of July 9th. For the lait three or four years a small reltaurant at Golders Green (on the main road) has made a brave attempt to popularize out-door eating and drinking in summer. When it first started it seemed to have a few patrons. Now I notice the few tables and chairs set out on the pavement have a very forlorn look, and always seem unoccupied. It is pitiful to see these empty chairs and tables in this delightful weather.
If only some of the young and venturesome folks would start the fashion of taking meals out of doors, it would soon take on. Of course our West End restaurants could not possibly do it now—they have no space outside, as they have in Paris or some of the Dutch and German towns. Here, they would be too close to the roadway—and, what with the smell of petrol and the crowds passing along, I do not think it would be very congenial to the diners.—I am, Sir, &c., M.
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