1770
About when, Brillat-Savarin says, the first restaurant opened in Paris. Historians date the first restaurants to the mid-1760s.
1770 CE
On restaurants, Paris, 1825
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste, Meditation 28 (first published December 1825), in the Flammarion edition of 1879 · published December 1825 (looking back to about 1770)
138. — Vers 1770, après les jours glorieux de Louis XIV, les roueries de la régence et la longue tranquillité du ministère du cardinal Fleury, les étrangers n'avaient encore à Paris que bien peu de ressources sous le rapport de la bonne chère.
Around 1770, the glorious days of Louis XIV were over, and so were the rakish tricks of the Regency and the long calm of Cardinal Fleury’s ministry. Yet visitors to Paris still had very few places to eat well.
Avant l'époque dont nous avons parlé (1770), les gens riches et puissants jouissaient presque exclusivement de deux grands avantages : ils voyageaient avec rapidité et faisaient constamment bonne chère.
Before the time we spoke of (1770), the rich and powerful had two great privileges almost to themselves: they traveled fast, and they always ate well.