"The prix fixe, at sixteen francs, comprised a choice of soup or a spectacular hors d'oeuvre varié and then fish, entrée, vegetable, salad, and cheese and fruit or dessert. Wine was included, but coffee wasn't. The franc was twenty-five to the dollar."

- A.J. Liebling on eating at the Taverne Soufflet in Paris in 1926. From Normandy Revisited, 1955.