Bismarck Hotel Breakfast Menu, Chicago, 1945 Miami Notable Portland social gatherings took

Notable Portland social gatherings took place at this establishment according to local newspapers from the era of 1915 - 1923

this Sea Cave menu dates from February 1952

A coq hardi - an old rooster – complete with chef’s hat and knife slung over his chest like a weapon – keeps a careful eye on the procession

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Director of the Culinary Historians of Northern California

Bismarck Hotel Breakfast Menu, Chicago, 1945 Miami Notable Portland social gatherings tookGreet the day with a smile, this cheerful egg seems to say. In the golden era of menu design, many foods were made to look human. They were given faces by talented illustrators and dressed up this egg has a hat and a cane. Chicago's famed Bismarck hotel was opened in 1894 by German immigrants Emil and Karl Eitel and for many decades, businessmen and lawyers conducted their affairs over breakfasts of steak, eggs and coffee in the hotel's elegant Walnut