Кръчми и ресторанти
Pubs and restaurants

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the paper is the historical development of pubs and restaurants, these specific phenomena of the urban culture, without which it would appear simple and lifeless. The comparative historical analysis challenges the radical confrontation between pubs and restaurants as related to the dichotomy pre-modern – modern. The author shows that specific elements of the restaurant culture existed in the Antiquity; and signs of re-traditionalized culture could be found in our postmodern time. But the focus of the paper is on the emergence of the European restaurant in the period of the 1879 French Revolution and its functional relation to the spirit of Modernity. The restaurant expresses such modern features as individualization of eating patterns, the principle of equal civil rights, cultivation of refined taste and the appearance of fashion. Those features, compared to other working conceptual dichotomies like male – female, survival – pleasure, eating – drinking, form the conceptual framework for the better understanding of pubs and restaurants in the city space.

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