[MAP]. VÉRY FRÈRES. Restaurateur, Palais-Royal, n°83. Salon ou Cabinets particuliers - Déjeuners et Soupers. Poster showing the menu of the famous restaurant, circa 1825. 59 x 44.3 cm on laid paper. At the beginning of the Empire, Le Lorrain Véry opened his restaurant in the Tuileries and, in 1808, a branch near the Palais-Royal theatre, whose reputation quickly made the first establishment forgotten. Grimod de la Reynière described it as "the finest restaurant there is in France and perhaps in Europe". B. Guigan added: "Provincials were taken to Very to give them a high idea of the capital. Granite tables laden with flowers, gilded bronze candelabras... the enchantment began... until a moderate paying card was introduced...". In fact, this famous restaurant was the first to have fixed prices, and Constantine added: "People ate well there, but they were ruined... so we only saw great people and rich foreigners there...". The wide range of dishes on the menu is impressive. There are 11 types of soup and 23 hors d'oeuvres, 15 beef starters, 20 mutton starters, 35 poultry starters, 18 veal starters, 25 types of fish, 19 roast dishes, 53 vegetable entremets and 49 dessert dishes. There were 16 red wines on offer, 17 white wines and champagnes, and numerous liqueur wines and fine liqueurs. The Véry family retired in 1920, handing over the restaurant's unrivalled prestige to the Meunier brothers, their nephews (P.V.). Washed copy, minor restorations.