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Terrace Room

Date
1940-01-01
Restaurant
Terrace Room
Physical description
28.5x22.5cm folded; 28.5x45cm open
Currency
Dollars

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Dishes

Peach Custard Pie$0.30
Cream Cheese$0.25
Cream Cheese with Bar le Duc Jelly$0.40
Lobster salad$1.60
Chicken salad$1.25
Grilled Milk-Fed Veal Steak, Medaillon of Sweetbreads$1.25 – $2.40
Baked Sugar Cured Ham with Cider Sauce$0.95 – $2.00
Broiled Baby Flounder with Lemon Butter$0.95 – $2.00
Filet of Bluefish Saute Meuniere, Shrimp and Capers$1.15 – $2.25
Boiled Kennebec Salmon Steak with Hollandaise Sauce$1.15 – $2.25
Lamb Kidney on Skewer$0.75
Bluepoint Oysters$0.35
Planked Steak Dinner$3.00
Cape Cod Oysters$0.40
Cherrystone Clams$0.45
Shrimp Cocktail$0.60
Broiled Fresh Mushrooms$0.85
Sliced Tomatoes$0.35
French Bowl Salad$0.45
Fresh Vegetable Salad$0.60
Shrimp Salad$0.90
FRESH FRUIT SALAD$0.55
Romaine Salad$0.40
Endive Salad$0.45
Chef's Salad$0.45
Maurice Salad$0.80
Hearts of Lettuce$0.35
Crabmeat Salad$1.25
COMBINATION SALAD$0.40
New Asparagus, Hollandaise sauce$0.60
Fresh Vegetables
Candied Squash
Jardiniere Fresh Vegetables
Buttered Lima Beans
Lyonnaise Potatoes
Whipped Potatoes
Parsley Potato
Hawaiian or Jamaica Sherbert
COMBINATION SALAD
Chatterbox Pudding
Coffee Ice Cream$0.30
Vanilla ice cream$0.30
Fresh Cocoanut Layer Cake
Open Cherry Pie, Whipped Cream
Tutti Frutti Rice Pudding
Peach Custard Pie
Little Neck clams$0.40
Crabmeat Cocktail$0.80
April Showers$0.40
LITTLENECK CLAM COCKTAIL
Fresh Cocoanut Layer Cake$0.30
Tutti Frutti Rice Pudding$0.30
Old English Fruit Cake$0.40
Select Steak Sandwich on French Bread a L'Aurora Borealis$1.00
Long Island Duckling, Prune Dressing, Apple Sauce$2.40 – $1.25
Roast Prime Ribs of Beef with Natural Gravy$1.35 – $2.50
Fresh Vegetable Dinner, Steamed in Glass, with a Poached Egg$0.90 – $2.00
Cold-Fried Disjointed Chicken, Dressing, Sliced Tomatoes, Asparagus Tips$1.25 – $2.40
Cold-Half Alligator Pear, Chicken Salad, Mayonnaise, Finger Sandwich$1.15 – $2.25
Chicken Reine in Casserole Primeur$1.40 – $2.50
Chicken Reine in Casserole Primeur Whole for 2 persons$2.80 – $5.00
Chocolate Ice Cream
Vanilla ice cream
Coffee Ice Cream
Choice of Cheese with Crackers
Today's New Yorker Specialty - Minced Beef Tenderloin Saute, Kidney, Sauce Creole$1.15 – $2.25
Potage Ambassador
Consomme Brunoise
Potage Ambassador$0.20 – $0.25
Cafe Diable$0.50
Crepes Suzette$0.50
Frozen Flame Continentale$0.50
Clam juice
Old Fashioned Grapefruit Cocktail
Tomato Juice
Pineapple Juice
Canape Ravigotte
Cherry Juice
Old Fashioned Strawberry Shortcake$0.35
Pannequet with Kirsch
Fruit Compote
Chatterbox Pudding$0.30
French Pastry$0.25
Cup Custard$0.25
Danish Pastry$0.20
Chicken Broth with Matzoth Dumplings$0.30
Cafe Diable$0.75
Coffee (pot)$0.25
Fried Matzoth Kloesen with Egg$0.70
Matzoth Pancake with Green Peas$0.70
Stewed Fresh Pear$0.40
Raw Apple$0.20
Celery
Carrots Strips
Olives
Radishes
Buttermilk$0.20
Postum$0.30
Kaffee Hag$0.30
Golden Guernsey Certified Milk$0.20
SANKA COFFEE$0.30
Acidophilus Milk$0.35
Demi Tasse$0.15
Tea (Pot)$0.25
AMERICAN CHEESE$0.30
ROQUEFORT CHEESE$0.35
CAMEMBERT CHEESE$0.35
Liederkranz Cheese$0.30
Gorgonzola Cheese$0.35
Switzerland Swiss Cheese$0.35
Edam Cheese$0.35
Brie cheese$0.35
Pistachio Ice Cream$0.30
Hawaiian Sherbet$0.25
Baked Alaska$0.65
Bombe Neluska$0.40
Raisin and Rum Ice Cream$0.30
Frozen Fudge$0.40
STRAWBERRY ICE CREAM$0.30
Coupe aux Marrons$0.40
Pear Cardinale$0.50
Butter pecan ice cream$0.30
Open Cherry Pie, Whipped Cream$0.30
Apple and Rhubarb Deep Dish Pie$0.35
New Green Apple Pie$0.25
New Green Apple Pie a la Mode$0.35
Pannequet with Kirsch$0.30
Coupe Aux Fraises$0.35
Petits fours$0.30
rice pudding$0.20
Baba au Rum$0.30
Honeydew Melon$0.50
Half Grapefruit$0.30
Fruit Compote$0.40
Pink Grapefruit$0.30
Spanish Melon$0.50
Fresh Pineapple$0.40
Fresh strawberries with cream$0.45
Toky Grapes$0.40
Malaga grapes$0.40
Baked Apple$0.25
Baked Apple with Cream$0.35
String Beans au Gratin$0.35
New Peas in Butter$0.40
New Lima Beans$0.40
Oyster Bay asparagus$0.70
Cauliflower$0.40
Broccoli$0.40
New Bermuda Potato$0.25
Artichoke$0.35
Baked Potato$0.30
French fried potatoes$0.30
Sirloin Steak (per person)$2.25
Half Broiled Chicekn$1.35
Tenderloin Steak (per person)$2.00
Lamb Chop (1)$0.65
Irish Bacon$0.70
Canadian Bacon$0.70
Ham Steak$1.10
Consomme Brunoise$0.20 – $0.25
Cream of tomato soup$0.30
Puree of Split Peas$0.25
Cold Jellied Madrilene$0.30
Oyster Stew with Milk$0.55
Clam Stew with Milk$0.55
Oyster Stew with Half and Half$0.65
Clam Stew with Half and Half$0.65
Oyster Stew with Cream$0.75
Clam Stew with Cream$0.75
Fresh Fruit Cocktail$0.50
Tomato Juice$0.30 – $0.45
Orange Juice$0.30 – $0.45
Hearts of Celery$0.35
Grapefruit Juice$0.30 – $0.45
Clam juice$0.30 – $0.45

Source: NYPL Digital Collections

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