Déjeuner, Château de Francs, Bègles, France 1890 Bridge After the Show

After the Show

There are few clues and all we know is that the menu was printed in Modesto

Scores of celebrities patronised the Biltmore and in 1927 the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences decided after a meeting in the hotel’s Crystal Ballroom to launch an awards ceremony called The Oscars

In 2018 Drinks International named the Manhattan the seventh best-selling cocktail in the world - not bad for a libation that’s been around for nearly 150 years

the guest who also kept the other Berkeley Hotel menu in this collection is one and the same and both were preserved as happy memories of a stay in one of England’s finest hotels

Déjeuner, Château de Francs, Bègles, France 1890 Bridge After the ShowThis beautiful 19th century French menu shows a gentleman returning from a morning livestock market. In the front basket of the carriage are two geese and a cockerel. A fat pig brings up the rear and is being pulled along by his new owner. This 1890 lunch menu offered a substantial feast. Among the dishes steak with anchovy butter, roast ham in jelly, game pate in pastry, roast chickens, eel tartare and truffled guinea fowl. No wonder dessert was