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Fifth Avenue Restaurant

Date
1917-11-27
Restaurant
Fifth Avenue Restaurant
Physical description
26.5x20.5cm folded; 26.6x41cm opened
Currency
Dollars

Pages

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Dishes

Sea Tags$0.45
Cape Cods$0.35
Filet of Herring a la Russe (p.p.)$0.35
Carciofini$0.35
BLUE POINTS$0.30
California Mammoth Olives$0.40
Cherrystones$0.35
crab meat cocktail$0.50
Celery$0.25
Little Necks$0.30
Lobster Cocktail$0.60
Olives$0.20
Hors d'Oeuvres (p.p.)$0.50
Radishes$0.20
Chow-chow$0.15
Caviar
Appetizers
Soups
Green Turtle Soup$0.50
Chicken broth$0.25
Mongole$0.25
Cream of Tomatoes$0.30
Onion Soup Gratine$0.30
SUGGESTIONS
Filet of Flounder, Fin de Siecle$0.65
Sea Bass Saute Meuniere$0.65
Chiffonnade salad$0.45
Fresh Vegetable Salad$0.45
Lettuce Salad$0.30
Romaine Salad$0.30
Tomato Salad$0.30
Lettuce and Tomato Salad$0.35
Hearts of lettuce salad$0.35
Fruit salad$0.50
Crab Flakes Salad$0.85
Lobster salad$1.00
Chicken salad$1.00
Fifth Avenue Salad$0.45
Russian Dressing$0.10
Cherry Tartelette$0.20
French Pastry$0.15
Eclaire$0.15
Stewed Assorted Fruit$0.40
Hot Rice Pudding$0.20
Cold rice pudding$0.20
Caramel custard$0.20
Charlotte Russe$0.25
Assorted cakes$0.25
Napoleon Cake$0.15
Cup Custard$0.20
Potage mongole$0.25
Cream of barley soup$0.25
Soft Boiled Eggs with creamed spinach$0.50
Shirred Eggs, Princesse$0.50
Sliced Eggs with baked onions in cream$0.50
Scrambled Eggs with Tomatoes$0.60
Filet of Flounder, Fin de Siecle$0.65
Turtle Meat, Creole$0.70
Cape Cod Oysters with fresh mushrooms, Poulette$0.65
Broiled Spanish Mackerel, Saratoga$0.65
Rabbit Stew, Bourgignonne$0.75
Baked Long Island Duckling with mashed sweet potatoes Virginia$0.90
Chicken Cutlet with creamed peas$0.75
Gniocchi, Parisienne with tomato sauce au gratin$0.45
Roast Philadelphia Capon with giblet sauce$0.85
Roast Vermont Turkey, with Cranberry Sauce$1.00
Brochette of Goose Livers with potatoes julienne$0.70
Leeks and Potato Soup
Corned Beef and Cabbage with potatoes
Potage mongole
Rabbit Stew, Bourgeoise
Philadelphia Pepper Pot
Fricassee of Chicken with fresh vegetables

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