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Tuesday 15 November 2005
Dinner in Soho (not SoHo): Wednesday's food quotation
They dined in Soho ... Philip sent the waiter for a bottle of Burgundy from the neighbouring tavern, and they had a potage aux herbes, a steak from the window aux pommes, and an omelette au kirsch .
1915 W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage chapter 60