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Brown's Hotel

Restaurant
Brown's Hotel
Place
Brown's Hotel
Venue
HOTEL
Physical description
Folder; 10 x 14.5 inches

Pages

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Dishes

Dover Sole
Grilled (grillee)
Deep-fried (frite)
Fried in butter and sprinkled with parsley (a la meuniere)
Clear Turtle with Sherry
Lobster Bisque
Vichyssoise
Consomme Madrilene
FRENCH ONION SOUP
Omelettes of your choice
Poached eggs on spinach, cream sauce and cheese (florentine)
Ravioli with tomatoes, onions, garli and parmesan (nicoise)
Noodles served with butter and grated parmesan
Gnocchi served with chopped chicken and spinach (romaine)
Chilled Melon
Whitebait
Caviar
Avocado Pear wtih Shrimps
Pate de Foie Gras
Mediterranean Prawns, half doz.
Joinville cocktail
Hors D'oeuvre
Smoked eel
Smoked Salmon
Pear and Parma Ham
Oysters natives, half dozen
Breast of chicken, with sweet corn fritter, banana and bacon (Maryland)
Duckling in orange sauce (a la orange)
Fillet steak "Brown's" filled with pate and truffles and served with special sauce
Fillet steak with Strasbourg Foie Gras and Madeira Sauce (Rossini)
Fillet steak garnished with tarlet crusts filled with tomatoes and onions (Castillane)
Slivers of fillet steak fried in butter and served in a sauce of sour cream, brandy, and shallots, sprinkled with paprika (strogonoff)
Escalope Fried in butter, garnished with parsley, chopped egg and capers (a la viennoise)
Sweetbreads served in cream sauce with truffles and Asparagus tips
Thin steak fried, with onions, mushrooms, piquant sauce and brandy (Diane)
Thin steak fried, with mixed peppers, mustard and brandy (au poivre)
Porterhouse steak (two persons)
Fillets of sole poached, served with mussels, shrimps, frog legs in Nantua sauce (two persons)
Fillets of sole, poached in white wine with mushrooms and parlse (a la bonne femme)
Fillets of sole served in cheese sauce (mornay)
Fillets of sole, served in a white wine sauce, garnished with lobster (americaine)
Turbot on the bone, poached or grilled
Deep-fried scampi (frits)
Scampi, fried in butter, tomatoes, garlic and parsley (a la provencale)
Lobster served in a sauce of butter, brandy and Madiera (Newburg)
Lobster served in a sauce of cheese, custard and brandy (thermidor)
Mixed Grill
Chateaubriand (two persons)
Fillet Steak
Lamb Cutlets
Entrecote Steak
Lamb Chop
Grilled Kidneys with Bacon
half spring chicken grilled
Minute Steak
Rump Steak
Surrey chicken
Norfolk turkey
Aylesbury duckling
Ribs of beef
English lamb
Gammon ham
Tongue
veal
Ham Pie
Lettuce
Mixed Salad
Tomato Salad
Potato salad
Russian salad
cole slaw
Tossed salad
Endive Salad
Mousseline potatoes
NEW POTATOES
Saute Potatoes
Straw potatoes
Croquette
Lyonnaise
bataille
rissole
Parisienne
Petit pois
french beans
Spinach: leaf or creamed
Onions: saute or fried
mushrooms
Runner beans
Cauliflower in cheese sauce
Brussels Sprouts
Braised celery
Broccoli
specialities from the sweet trolley served with fresh cream
cold souffle brown's
Fresh pineapple in kirsch
Lemon or jam pancake
Ice Creams
Cassata sicilienne
Crepes Suzette
Sabayon Marsala
Lemon or orange sorbet
Croute Diane
Mushrooms on toast
Welsh rarebit
Croute Ivanhoe
Hors d'Oeuvre from the Trolley
Avocado Vinaigrette
Ravioli
CREAM OF CAULIFLOWER
Consomme with tapioca
River Trout Fried in Butter with Almonds
escalopes of veal filled with ham and gruyere cheese
Braised Ox Tongue with Madeira Sauce and Spinach
Poached Chicken with Pimentoes and White Wine Sauce
Your Selection from the Cold Buffet with Green or Mixed Salad
Rissole, New or Anna Potatoes
Buttered Broccoli Spears
chicory milanaise
Garden Peas
lemon meringue pie
Scotch Woodcock
Pineapple Melba
FRESH FRUIT
Selection of English and Continental Cheeses
Coffee served with Fresh Cream

Source: NYPL Digital Collections

16,525 menus · 64,352 scanned pages · 1851–2008 · uncatalogued scans

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