The Restaurant, a Geographical Approach : From Invention to Gourmet Tourist Destinations

Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- PART 1: The Restaurant: An Eminently Urban Subject -- Introduction to Part 1 -- 1. The Geographical Origin of the Restaurant: The Urban Environment -- 1.1. From bouillons… -- 1.2. … to the establishment -- 2. The Concentration of Restaurants in the City Centers -- 2.1. A center-specific logic… -- 2.2. … to a logic of axes -- 2.2.1. Axial diffusion -- 2.2.2. Social diffusion -- 3. The Geographical Diffusion of Restaurants in Provinces by Cities and City Networks -- 3.1. The geographical diffusion of restaurants in the provinces: an application of rank-size law… -- 3.2. … but disrupted by tourism -- PART 2: The Restaurant in Terms of Places and Geographical Spaces -- Introduction to Part 2 -- 4. Logics and Strategies for Locating Restaurants -- 4.1. The logic of proximity -- 4.1.1. Proximity to the political and administrative sphere and the business world -- 4.1.2. Proximity to the cultural sphere and the artistic world -- 4.1.3. Proximity to food retail and supply points -- 4.2. Accessibility logics -- 4.3. The logic of landscape charm -- 4.4. The logic of assimilation -- 4.4.1. Affectivity -- 4.4.2. Appropriation -- 5. Restaurants in the City -- 5.1. Restaurants in small cities -- 5.2. Restaurants in average-sized cities -- 5.3. New dynamics in large cities -- 6. Restaurants in the Countryside and the Relationship Between Cities and the Countryside -- 6.1. Restaurants in the countryside -- 6.2. The restaurant, the city/countryside relationship and nature in the city -- PART 3: The Restaurant at the Heart of the Tourist System -- Introduction to Part 3 -- 7. The Relationship Between the Restaurant and Tourism -- 7.1. Complementary relations between restaurants and tourism -- 7.1.1. Along the coastlines, at the beach -- 7.1.2. In the mountains.