A SAFE "CRITERION."

Evening Star, Issue 4180, 20 July 1876, Page 4

A SAFE "CRITERION."

The London Pcottiah Journal ■ devotes an artiote unclor this !i tlc > *9 1 be great establishment of Me-sis Spiers and Pond in the W.-st End. Our contend raiy says:-Us have been in the hahi of takim-onr Kua-ronomic, as well as our ot her , U-nsures. sadl And not only sauly, hut simony s iwdust. Whv the proverMa peck of dirt should have been m Ji J every week, instead olominga lif time, was nev Jr very plain to reasoning minds. Nevertheless, our fathers did it. 'I ake the Criterion, in Piccaddvone of the most remarkable buildings at the West End-any afternoon in the week. There you wTll find a dinner served, not only in the most comfort! able, but in t'.e most sumptuous mauuer, and at a fn IC a f stnffv°^off Mt by OUr fat , hers for sitting in a, slntly. coffee-room, or still more stutfv pubhe-house. and partaking of the ne B t stuffy and indigestible viands it was possible for the stomach of man to receive. At the Criterion a party of live nmy dine, or a party of 50fl And the 500 will be as comfortably bestowed as the five, and tbo five as the 600 While upstair-, in a huge dining-hall decorated tn l^ x "T tha e h,!B . hitherto been almost unknown f 1 l mvat ' enterprise—there is, for about throe hours every cNenu g, « M,le d'hoU winch, for pne m d detail fair y puts the Hotel du Louvre an. even the Grand Hotel of Pans, into the shade. Se\ oral hu d eds of ladies ami gentlemen, arranged" at separate tables, are roomily seated ar one and the same time. There is no bustle, n 0 n i-e !! • •rowding. The dining goes on wdh tie ve-uta.iiy of cloci. woi k; an a i eoufori can add to be pope Ute which cm d cigt.dn.n is wished to wait on it is to bo bad at the Criterion. It is gratifi i, g to be abm to State that the spirited proprietors- ■ pioiß ;nd lond-arc receiving that amount of patronage te which their m.digging enterprise ■ auly entitles them Little more ban two vcais have elapsed s:neo the Criteiion was opened to the public, and already it is one of the sights of ijoiidou, D