Breakfast is not only a far more important meal in the Far West than it is in the precincts of the Atlantic seaboard, but that it is also a far more enjoyable one.
As readers of this department may be aware, its author has been a faithful Manhattanite whose only apostatic doubts have been excited by the splendors of San Francisco.
There was a legend that the great Fred Harvey once discharged an eating-house manager for not showing a sufficient monthly operating deficit in his accounts.
The season's award for the most brilliantly executed gustatory barn-raising goes high, wide, and handsomely to the Pierre Hotel's chef des cuisines, Manuel Orta.