Menu du Banquet Dunlop Post Card Early 1900s The Scene Those were the days

Those were the days

game pate in pastry

Steelograph specialized in steel engraving

Hoefly's Restaurant: Julius Hoefly

believing that fine wines enhance the enjoyment of good cuisine

Menu du Banquet Dunlop Post Card Early 1900s The Scene Those were the daysThis marvellous etching dated around the 1890s to early 1900s is entitled The Original Menu of Banquet Dunlop and is set in a French bar. A lavishly moustachioed barman is serving a bottle of champagne to two men. The finely clothed French gentleman on the right asks his companion, sitting on a bar stool: Well, dont you drink any more? His companion a wrinkled old Michelin Man in a casual raincoat and hat replies: No thanks. Its too dry. It tastes