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The Empire Tea Room

Date
1943-12-07
Restaurant
The Empire Tea Room
Physical description
29x22.5cm folded; 29x45cm open
Currency
Dollars

Pages

  1. Page 1
  2. Page 2
  3. Page 3

Dishes

Page 1

Skoal Bread (Swedish Rye Bread)$0.10
Fried Cheese Fritter with Cream Sauce (Swiss cheese, hominy on skewer, breaded and fried)$0.50
Sour Cream, Pot Cheese, Sharp Vegetables, and Boiled Potato$0.50
Royal Lunch Crackers with Half and Half$0.45
Special Diet Dressing$0.15
BREAD$0.10
Rolls$0.10
Chiffonade Dressing$0.15
Wine Vinegar Dressing$0.15
Imported Blue Cheese Dressing$0.15
Bibb Lettuce Salad$0.30
Hearts of lettuce salad$0.25
Lettuce and Tomato Salad$0.35
Fruit salad$0.60
French Bowl Salad$0.35
Endive Salad$0.35
Romaine Salad$0.30
Sliced Tomatoes$0.25
COMBINATION SALAD$0.35
Crabmeat Salad$1.10
Lobster salad$1.55
Chicken salad$1.10
Chicken Salad, all White Meat$1.35
Fresh Cooked Vegetables$0.70
Shrimp Salad$0.85
Chef's Salad$0.45
Maurice Salad$0.80
Chocolate$0.25
Cocoa$0.25
chocolate milk$0.15
Acidophilus Milk$0.30
Buttermilk$0.15
Sanka$0.25
Certified Milk$0.15
Pot of Tea$0.15
Coffee (Cup)$0.10
Genuine Swiss Gruyere Cheese$0.35
IMPORTED BLUE CHEESE$0.25
Camembert$0.25
Brie$0.25
Cream Cheese$0.20
Cream Cheese with Bar le Duc Jelly$0.30
Swiss cheese$0.25
Liederkranz Cheese$0.25
Hickory Smoked Cheese$0.30
Edam Cheese$0.35
AMERICAN CHEESE$0.20
Chicken Salad Sandwich on Toast$0.50
Date and Nut Bread with Jelly$0.20
Orange Nut Bread with Pimento, Cream Cheese$0.30
Cream Cheese, Pimento, Nuts on Raisin Bread$0.30
Chopped Eggs and Onions, on Whole Wheat Bread$0.30
Chicken Sandwich$0.50
Swiss cheese sandwich$0.30
Caramel Nut Sundae$0.25
Frozen Fudge$0.30
STRAWBERRY ICE CREAM$0.20
Chocolate Ice Cream$0.20
Vanilla ice cream$0.20
pineapple sherbet$0.15
Toasted Old English, Open Face$0.40
Melted American Cheese and Toast$0.35
Fruits served with Cream$0.05
Stewed Peaches, New Yorker's Preserve$0.40
Fresh Pineapple$0.30
Baked Apple$0.25
Fresh Grapes$0.30
Fresh Pear$0.15
Stewed Fresh Pears (2)$0.30
Raw Apple$0.15
Stewed Fresh Fruits$0.40
Honeydew Melon$0.40
Santa Claus Melon$0.40
Fresh Plums (3)$0.30
Half Grapefruit$0.25
Baked Cherrystone Clams Casino$0.85
Little Neck clams$0.30
Cherrystone Clams$0.35
Oyster Stew with Half and Half$0.70
Clam Stew with Half and Half$0.70
Oyster Stew with Cream$0.80
Clam Stew with Cream$0.80
Oyster Stew with Milk$0.60
Clam Stew with Milk$0.60
Cup of Clam Broth$0.20

Page 3

Rice Custard Pudding, Caramel Sauce$0.20
rice pudding$0.20
Cup Custard$0.20
Fruit Jello$0.15
Petit Fours$0.25
Green Apple Pie$0.20
Pumpkin Pie$0.20
Mince Meat Pie$0.25
Assorted Danish Pastry$0.15
Stewed Fresh Fruits$0.35
Chatterbox Pudding$0.25
Caramel Nut Sundae$0.25
Frozen Maple Pecan Pie$0.30
Stewed pears$0.20
Praline Chocolate Layer Cake$0.20
pineapple sherbet$0.15
Napoleon Pastry$0.15
lemon meringue pie$0.20
Open Apple Pie with Whipped Cream$0.20
Assorted Cold Cuts, Dill Pickle, Salad Monegasque$0.80
Stuffed Tomato with Cottage Cheese and Chives, Finger Sandwich$0.75
Fresh Vegetable Luncheon Prepared in our Pressure Cookers$0.50
Fresh Vegetable Luncheon Prepared in our Pressure Cookers with a Poached Egg$0.65
Broiled Mushrooms with Eggplant Steak, Tomato, Fried Onions, Julienne Potatoes$0.75
Vegetable Roast with Stewed Tomatoes$0.70
Shirred Eggs with Chicken Croquette, Paesley Potato$0.70
Broiled Codfish Steak with Saute Potatoes, Buttered Beets$0.70
Boiled Finnan Haddie,Melted Butter, Parsley Potato, Spinach$0.70
Fried Lobster Cutlet, Madeira Sauce, Hash Brown Potatoes, New Peas$0.60
Chicken Pot Pie with Fresh Garden Vegetables, Potatoes, Biscuit Crust$0.80
BREAD
Rolls
Coffee
Tea
Milk
Cup of Consomme with Rice$0.10
Potage Parmentier$0.10
Braised Stuffed Cabbage with Rice and Paprika Sauce, Bread or Rolls, Coffee or Tea$0.80
Fallen Leaf Cocktail - Bourbon Whiskey, Cherry Brandy, Lemon Juice, Jamaica Rum$0.45
Puree of Split Peas$0.25
Consomme with rice$0.15
Cream of tomato soup$0.25
Potage Parmentier$0.15
Tomato Juice$0.20
Clam juice$0.20
Fruit Cup$0.40
Orange Juice$0.20
Cape Cod Oysters$0.35
Fresh Vegetable Juice Cocktail$0.20
Grape Juice$0.20
Cherrystone Clams$0.35
Little Neck clams$0.30
Apple Juice$0.20
Grapefruit Juice$0.20
Crabmeat Cocktail$0.80
Fresh Shrimp Cocktail$0.60
Blue Point Oysters$0.30

Source: NYPL Digital Collections

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

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