A 1913 menu found during restoration work.
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Bonefish Blues
Banging donk
- Location
- 52 Festive Road
As the article says, very cosmopolitan.
CanucksTraveller
Macho Business Donkey Wrestler
- Location
- Hertfordshire
I'll have the sole with parsley sauce please. 
LeetleGreyCells
Un rouleur infatigable
- Location
- Whitehaven Mansions
Sweetbreads… 
Bonefish Blues
Banging donk
- Location
- 52 Festive Road
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
There's a lot of things on there that I actually cook - goes to show that classic food never goes out of fashion.
Two of my favourites there - brill in a cheese sauce and the steak tartare
One observation though, is it's very meat-heavy, as it would have been for a middle-class clientele. You definitely wouldn't have had much choice if you were vegetarian. Although vegetarianism was heavily tied in with the suffragette movement.
Two of my favourites there - brill in a cheese sauce and the steak tartare
One observation though, is it's very meat-heavy, as it would have been for a middle-class clientele. You definitely wouldn't have had much choice if you were vegetarian. Although vegetarianism was heavily tied in with the suffragette movement.
Bonefish Blues
Banging donk
- Location
- 52 Festive Road
Suffragettes were always being tied to things 😊There's a lot of things on there that I actually cook - goes to show that classic food never goes out of fashion.
Two of my favourites there - brill in a cheese sauce and the steak tartare
One observation though, is it's very meat-heavy, as it would have been for a middle-class clientele. You definitely wouldn't have had much choice if you were vegetarian. Although vegetarianism was heavily tied in with the suffragette movement.
Bonefish Blues
Banging donk
- Location
- 52 Festive Road
A printers - or am I missing something? Correct me if I'm wrong, but that was also the heyday of the national press, up to about the early-mid 1960s.
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Well, it was a pretty effective tactic.
Us lasses have the vote, and no one bats an eyelid if you say you're a vegetarian.
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Some family friends used to run a hotel and restaurant. Their basic menu stayed pretty much the same, but with seasonal variations. Daily specials were usually written on a chalk board.
Also, back then, printed media was the fastest way to communicate, and easily accessible and relatively cheap. It wouldn't have taken long for a skilled typesetter to put that menu together.
SkipdiverJohn
Deplorable Brexiteer
- Location
- London
They reckon they're going to to recreate some of the dishes (but I bet the prices won't be the same)
One shilling in 1913 is the equivalent of almost £6 today, according to the Bank of England's inflation calculator tools.
