Savarin Restaurant

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Remember the Savarin Restaurant in the Roanoke station? 

Recently I saw mention of Savarin Restaurants in Washington Union Station and New York Penn Station. That started me thinking (... a dangerous thing.) A websearch reveals that there are now Savarin Restaurants all over the world, but I cannot find any indication of single ownership, a franchise, a chain, or even a single theme behind all those restaurants. 

Wikipedia has an article on Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826,) who is termed "the father of the gastronomic essay." So I am wondering if the many Savarin hash emporia might not take their name from him? 

Thus the question: who owned/operated the Savarin in the Roanoke depot ? Was it indeed a chain, or was it of "local inspiration"? 

And finally, how is the name properly pronounced? The French would say sah-vuh-REEN, but English, with its proclivities for throwing the accent back to the penultimate or antepenultimate syllable in a word, would probably make it SAV-uh-rin. What did the locals say? 

-- abram burnett 


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