Mon Lay Won Co, New York, 1910 Menu Art Plantation Kitchen that champagne and sparkling wines

that champagne and sparkling wines

just off Boulevard Raspail

This menu from The Hollywood Café and Nightclub marks this innovation by featuring a little propeller plane flying overhead

For a short period in the 1960s the Thatched Barn - a landmark hotel on the outskirts of London - became a very short-lived Playboy Club

A review of the Tricity Restaurant by a critic from The Lady magazine describes the bright lighting as being “like sunshine indoors” and customers were reassured that there was nothing to be worried about because food cooked by electricity tastes “delicious“

Mon Lay Won Co, New York, 1910 Menu Art Plantation Kitchen that champagne and sparkling winesMon Lay Won was an upscale Chinese restaurant at 24 Pell Street in New York, popular at the turn of the last century. Its owner, whose name was unpronounceable to most Americans and who was called Jimmy, shrewdly called it The Chinese Delmonico's as part of a marketing strategy to attract non Chinese customers. It must have been an exotic place to visit. The ceilings were adorned with lanterns, there were carved dragons on the walls and people sat on