A 1913 menu found during restoration work.
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Bonefish Blues
Banging donk
As the article says, very cosmopolitan.
CanucksTraveller
Macho Business Donkey Wrestler
I'll have the sole with parsley sauce please. 
LeetleGreyCells
Un rouleur infatigable
Sweetbreads… 
Bonefish Blues
Banging donk
Reynard
Guru
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
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
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
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
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
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.
