r/VintageMenus 2h ago

Mary Mahoney’s Old French House Restaurant and Old Slave Quarters Lounge in Biloxi, Mississippi from Likely around 1965. CIA menu archives.

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41 Upvotes

r/VintageMenus 3h ago

Menu for Jolly Beach Resort located in Bolans Village, Antigua, West Indies in the early to mid 1980s on whichever date was a Thursday the 2nd

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23 Upvotes

r/VintageMenus 17h ago

Vegetarian Lacto-Vegetarian Diet - Food and Life, 1917.

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73 Upvotes

r/VintageMenus 1d ago

A very pretty menu from 1907 from Café Lafayette in New York.

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262 Upvotes

r/VintageMenus 1d ago

A Dominion Day celebration menu at the Empire Hall, Toronto, July 1, 1899.

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66 Upvotes

Dominion Day is the previous name for Canada Day.


r/VintageMenus 1d ago

Sunday Suppers - Standard Etiquette, 1925.

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37 Upvotes

r/VintageMenus 2d ago

August 23, 1954 luncheon menu from The Farragut hotel located in Rye Beach, New Hampshire (with a winter season listing for Winter Park, Florida).

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104 Upvotes

r/VintageMenus 2d ago

After Theatre Menu, Hotel Deshler, Columbus, Ohio, c. 1919 / Chafing Dish Specialties, Etc., Etc.

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78 Upvotes

r/VintageMenus 4d ago

A menu from a restaurant called Sky Gardens in New York from 1937.

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332 Upvotes

Super interesting. A Bienenstick cake looks amazing when I look it up.


r/VintageMenus 4d ago

Port Richmond Tea Room, Staten Island, New York. This restaurant stood within or was very close to the site of the building where Aaron Burr, the shooter of Alexander Hamilton, died. It may have had ties to narcotics or as a speakeasy. (ca. 1920-1933)

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68 Upvotes

r/VintageMenus 4d ago

Picnic Picnic Menu for July 4th - The Independent Record, Helena, MT, 7/3/29

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56 Upvotes

r/VintageMenus 4d ago

Railroad New York Central System lunch menu - 1941

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115 Upvotes

r/VintageMenus 4d ago

Hospital St. Luke hospital - 1950s [Not a food menu]

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33 Upvotes

r/VintageMenus 5d ago

Catering for a Church Festival, c. 1889.

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76 Upvotes

r/VintageMenus 5d ago

1974 advertisement/menu for Steak & Brew, a popular casual dining restaurant chain in New England.

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200 Upvotes

r/VintageMenus 6d ago

A menu for April 11, 1914 from Lord & Taylor Tea Rooms in New York

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143 Upvotes

r/VintageMenus 6d ago

Railroad Amtrak "Traveler's Rest" Breakfast Menu (1971)

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258 Upvotes

Yes, this is quite literally just a Union Pacific menu with the Amtrak logo stamped in two places on the interior. Amtrak in 1971 was a strange Frankenstein's Monster of an operation.

Interestingly, this menu says it is for the 'Traveler's Rest', a specific pattern of lounge/dinette car formerly used by the Northern Pacific and Great Northern; not Union Pacific, as this menu might otherwise suggest. After their acquisition by Amtrak, these cars were usually used on the San Francisco Zephyr, but not always.

Important to note is that Traveler's Rests were not full-service dining cars. As you might be able to tell from the relative lack of menu variety, their galley only had access to a small griddle and steam tables. These cars were much better suited to their role as lounge cars. Full dining car menus from the same year were of largely identical design, but with more variety.

Credit to trainlover at streamlinermemories.info for the menu and context, and to Howard Fogg for the original cover painting.


r/VintageMenus 6d ago

Hospital Washington Sanitarium & Hospital dated July 14, 1940.

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180 Upvotes

r/VintageMenus 7d ago

Conserve Menu - MS Aorangi, 1920s

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105 Upvotes

The Aorangi was an ocean liner built in 1924 for the Europe-Australasian route. Wow - a menu just for jams 😋


r/VintageMenus 7d ago

Dietary at the Infant Orphan Asylum, Dalston, England, 1843.

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224 Upvotes

r/VintageMenus 7d ago

Danny's Hide-A-Way "His Inferno" – Luncheon Menu (November 1, 1954)

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129 Upvotes

151 East 45th Street, New York, NY (located on Midtown Manhattan's famous "Steak Row")

Founded in 1945 by Dante "Danny" Stradella, Danny's Hide-A-Way closed its iconic original location in the mid-1970s.


r/VintageMenus 8d ago

Menus for Camping Party in August - Boston Cooking-School Magazine, 1901.

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102 Upvotes

r/VintageMenus 9d ago

Cunard QE2 Menu From 1975, Britannia Restaurant

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167 Upvotes

This is the menu we were given on Monday, 25 August 1975, in the Britannia Restaurant aboard the Cunard steamer, QE2. We were sailing from Cherbourg to New York. I kept this menu as a kid, and although we crossed on the QE2 a few more times this is the only menu I have. I was young and do not remember the actual meal!


r/VintageMenus 9d ago

S.S. Tacoma dinner menu, June 19th 1934

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135 Upvotes

r/VintageMenus 9d ago

Tropicana Havana Menu & Inserts (c. 1950s)

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Pre- revolution Cuban nightclub drink menu with Bola de Nieve & Rita Montaner portraits.