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Notes from the collector: An old menu judging by the prices. A classmate Bumps Baldauf was the Manager before he opened his own establishment.

Scope and Contents Notes from the collector: Located on the head of the Old Port about fifty feet from the fishmongers with their fresh catch of seafood. The restaurant was primarily a seafood place and actually had one person going around the dining room helping customers open their oysters, crack their crabs, shell their lobster, etc. It was in 1977, we stayed just yards away at a hotel overlooking the port with a view to the unfolding dramas on the sidewalk. The first night a couple of...

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Notes from the collector: Operated in the Pacific from 1940 to 1965 when it became Air New Zealand. The early planes were flying boats made by the English Company Shorts who were the first company to make production aircraft. My wife's father used to fly on these planes from Wellington or Auckland to Sydney and land at Rose Bay. (my wife's maiden name!) The planes only carried some seventeen passengers but in luxury and style.

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Notes from the collector: A main dining room menu on board our voyage to Alaska and back to Vancouver in 1990. You can see the menu is Day 4 so they had a separate menu for each of the seven days. The back page gives a good summary of Holland American Line.

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Notes from the collector: On board breakfast is served on Monday, the 8th of July 1957. Note Dolly Varden Cakes - somewhat of an institution. A pretty comprehensive menu on a short trip across the Tasman. This was my wife's first time on a ship, but not the last.

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Notes from the collector: The cover page says "Home of the Original Caesar's Salad" If this is correct then this is a treasure. I have no idea where I got this menu nor the date. But it looks like it is from somewhere around the fifties or the sixties. Maybe someone can throw some light on both the origin and the date. The menu is certainly balanced and lively with a wide variety of wines, but none from the northern neighbor.

Scope and Contents Notes from the collector: I combine these two since I got them more or less together on our sojourn to England. They are from around Coventy as one says. A friend and his wife took us to that area where we rented a car to go touring. He used to work in the area in automotive sales, but lamented now there were no major English car manufacturers owned by the English. The year was 1998. And the menus were certainly indicative of the forthcoming season. To digress - we stayed...

Scope and Contents Notes from the collector: Breakfast menu and Dinner menu - both very involved and expensive. Probably in the late eighties when we did a grand tour of the U. S. and spent some time staying with a fraternity brother who was born in New Orleans and is the only person I have even known who has always lived at the same address. He organized a "swamp" tour and it felt like we were in the middle of the Amazon until a plane flew over and someone said we were just pass...

Scope and Contents Notes from the collector: Not a menu as such, but indicates the high level of everything they attempt. Built in 1902 it is the largest timber building in New England. I think I got that right. It was the site of the Bretton Woods Conference in the 1940's where the free world leaders and or finance ministers worked out the monetary system to be adopted after WWII. As the location was so remote I suppose it was selected for security reasons. We read or were told that during...

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Notes from the collector: A fun place in busy area of Paris. The English translations seem to be hidden away for only some items, but it doesn't matter in gay Paree.