Comment on “The Virtues of a Higher Cause”

My favorite detail in the menu is that items such as absinthe deviate from a standard 'equipment list' style description. Or the "fried eggs" - a simple item conceptually but they're not just "cooked in oil/fat", they're "stolen fresh from our hens..." The hot spice entry is another good example.

The feeling as I read was of a restaurantkeeper, proud of his hard-earned literacy, pouring every word he knew into the descriptions, and occasionally getting carried away with himself. [your achievement of the effect was controlled, of course.]

I noticed a typo BTW. Under Sideboard - Brown gravy: "an layer of sauce".