Louis Sherry, New York 1884 Alaska Horlick’s and ice cream sodas

Horlick’s and ice cream sodas were on the drinks menu in the cafe

the Astor Hotel had elaborately decorated public rooms and a beautiful rooftop garden with a bandstand and an observatory

he got a job washing dishes to make ends meet

Owned by Albert Martin

This marked a move towards haute cuisine

Louis Sherry, New York 1884 Alaska Horlick’s and ice cream sodasThis is a very fine hand colored menu card with gilt edge from an unrecorded social event, catered by Louis Sherry on Sunday, January 27, 1884. Provenance: William R. Grace (1832 1904), two term Mayor of New York City. Around 1880, with $1,300 of savings, Louis Sherry launched his first restaurant in New York City at 38th Street and Sixth Avenue. The new establishment struggled a bit at first, but Sherry's knack for "dainty decorations" and the