Schrafft's, New York 1920 1957 the Café de Paris would

the Café de Paris would have been the location where the fictional aristocrat Lady Mary Crawley and her sister Lady Edith

This 1973 menu

London's fabled Trocadero Restaurant opened in 1896 and closed February 1965

At Frenchy’s Black Cat Cafe the local newspaper reported that the choice of starter on the fixed lunch menu was "cocktail or soup” which makes us laugh

Schrafft's, New York 1920 1957 the Café de Paris wouldSchraffts began life as a candy manufacturer in Boston and in 1898 one its salesmen, a visionary man called Frank G Shattuck, opened the first store in New York. His sister Jane introduced the concept of light lunches and Schraffts developed into a chain of restaurants that was particularly popular with women. This 1920s menu cover, showing an elegantly clad waitress, perfectly illustrates the genteel image of the restaurants during the Roaring