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Passage cue: Hemingway remembered dinners at Polidor with Hadley Richardson and writer-friends in A Moveable Feast; the restaurant is explicitly tied to the book's Paris literary world. (en.wikipedia.org) Why it matters: Polidor fits Hemingway's recurring motif of productive hunger: cheap, steady meals in a room full of students, artists, and talk. In that memoir, restaurants like this help make Paris feel both materially lean and imaginatively abundant. That interpretive link follows the book's emphasis on creative life in Paris and the restaurant's documented place in Hemingway's recollections. (litcharts.com)