The Menu Museum

An archive of historical restaurant menus from the New York Public Library.

16,525 menus
64,352 scanned pages
1851–2008

Scans and transcription data from the New York Public Library’s What’s on the Menu? project.

Not affiliated with NYPL.

Uncatalogued scans

Restaurants

6,187 restaurants, hotels, railroads, and steamship lines

Most in the collection

  1. Waldorf Astoria695 menus
  2. Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen624 menus
  3. Hotel Astor328 menus
  4. HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE279 menus
  5. NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA215 menus
  6. Red Star Line158 menus
  7. TOYO KISEN KAISHA144 menus
  8. Healy's Forty-second Street restaurant136 menus
  9. TAMPA BAY HOTEL129 menus
  10. OCEANIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY114 menus
  11. The Commodore Hotel114 menus
  12. The Biltmore102 menus
  13. The Ambassador101 menus
  14. Pennsylvania Railroad92 menus
  15. Waldorf-Astoria92 menus
  16. PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY88 menus
  17. Wm. F. Healy's 42nd St. Grill82 menus
  18. CUNARD LINE70 menus
  19. The Waldorf Astoria68 menus
  20. Hotel McAlpin62 menus
  21. The Mouquin Restaurant and Wine Co.62 menus
  22. Childs58 menus
  23. ?55 menus
  24. Delmonicos53 menus
  25. Hotel Manhattan53 menus
  26. OCEANIC STEAMSHIP CO.49 menus
  27. ALCAZAR HOTEL46 menus
  28. Paquebot "Liberté"46 menus
  29. ST. REGIS HOTEL46 menus
  30. Nordeutscher Lloyd Bremen44 menus
  31. S.S. "George Washington"""44 menus
  32. Southern Pacific43 menus
  33. Louis Sherry42 menus
  34. Hotel Mc Alpin41 menus
  35. HAMBURG AMERIKA LINIE36 menus
  36. OCCIDENTAL & ORIENTAL STEAMSHIP COMPANY36 menus
  37. Hotel Pierre34 menus
  38. R.M.S. "Queen Elizabeth"34 menus
  39. ROYAL PALM HOTEL34 menus
  40. Broadway Central Hotel33 menus
  41. OCEANIC STEAMSHIP CO. - VENTURA33 menus
  42. Hotel St. Regis32 menus
  43. NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD - BREMEN31 menus
  44. Park Lane31 menus
  45. COLONIAL HOTEL30 menus
  46. U.S.M.S.30 menus
  47. Hotel Belmont29 menus
  48. The Plaza29 menus