1910 Baedeker on English restaurants

Okay, this is admittedly not current but it is indisputably "Beyond Chicagoland." I got a kick out of it and thought you might too. I was perusing a 1910 Baedeker to Great Britain last night and came across the following description of "Hotels" (there was no separate entry for restaurants). Should you be so inclined, get a hold of one of these turn-of-the-century guides; the advice to travellers is invariably fascinating.

"As compared with Continental hotels English hotels may be said as a rule to excel in beds, cleanliness, and sanitary arrangements, while their cuisine is on the whole inferior. The English table-d'hote dinner is usually dear and seldom so good as its prototype on the Continent; while the culinary art of hotels off the beaten track of tourists scarcely soars beyond the preparation of plain joints, steaks, chops, vegetables, and puddings. Those, however, who are content with simple but substantial fare will find little to complain of. Beer is the customary beverage...but wine is more usual at fashionable tables-d'hote, where beer is sometimes not supplied except in bottles and at higher rates. A 'corkage' charge of 1-3s. is made on each bottle of wine used that has not been purchased from the hotel. Restaurants are not nearly so common in England as on the Continent, and in most provincial places it is better to go to a hotel for meals."