MADAME VEUVE LAMOLLE & CO
Lamolle House and Restaurant
Bio-Sawyers
SURNAMES: PFISTER
proprietors of the Lamolle House and restaurant, corner of San Pedro
and Santa Clara Streets, San Jose, have for the past eighteen years
conducted a restaurant in this city, the management and cuisine
of which have a reputation second to none in the state or the Pacific
Coast. Madame Lamolle has had ample experience, having
studied the art of cooking in france, and has conducted first-class
establishments for the past thirty years in Virginia City, Reno, and
Winnemucca, Nevada, previous to establishing business in San Jose in
1872. They have an average of seventy-five transient gust per day
besides their regular table boarders. There are twenty-seven
sleeping-rooms in the house. They specially cater to the few who
want good accommodations and fine french cooking. The firm
consists of Madame Lamolle, Emile J. Lamolle, the business manger, Mr.
Alexis Gaston, the chef de cuisine, formerly at Delmonico's in New York. Thus every department of this well-conducted house is in experienced hands.
Madam Lamolle is a native of Luchon, Department of Huate-Garonne,
France, who come in her early youth to the Pacific Coast, and here
remained. Emile J. Lamolle was born in Eureka, Nevada County,
California in 1859. He received his education at Santa Clara
College. From that school he went to San Francisco, where he
learned the business of machinist, finishing the apprenticeship a the
Union Iron Works. He continued at this business until five years
ago, when he returned home and took an interest in the Lamolle
House. Mr. Lamolle's father, Bernard Lamolle, a native of France,
died in 1869. Madame Lamolle has one daughter, Marie, now the
wife of H Pfister, who is in the grocery business in Santa Clara.
Pen Pictures From The
Garden of the World or Santa Clara County, California, Illustrated.
- Edited by H. S. Foote.- Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1888.
Pg. 367
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