Creator
La Rotonde
Title
À la carte - Grill Room
Coverage
Paris
Date
December 23, 1925
Description
“No matter what café in Montparnasse you ask a driver to bring you to . . . they always take you to the Rotonde,” wrote Earnest Hemingway in The Sun Also Rises (1926). While Hemingway may not have particularly liked the place, the restaurant was popular with other writers. Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay enjoyed dining at La Rotonde during a stay in Paris. This menu has caricatures of a few of its talented habitués, such as Japanese-French artist Tsuguharu Foujita, who depicted a fight in the café in his etching “A la Rotonde” (1925).