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Lafayette Hotel

Location
Lafayette Hotel

420 dishes

Date
May 25, 1940

Sponsor
Lafayette Hotel

Physical description
38x29cm

Call number
1940-0077_wotm

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Dish Page Price
Vegetable Plate Kale Greens, Poached Egg, New Potatoes, Green Asparagus, Buttered Beets, With Bread And Butter, Coffee Or Tea 1 0.75
Whole Chicken Lobster Broiled, Drawn Butter, Shoe String Potatoes, With Bread And Butter, Coffee Or Tea 1 1.0
Tuna Fish Salad, Pickles, Potato Chips, Ripe Olive, Lime Sherbet, With Bread And Butter, Coffee Or Tea 1 0.7
Broiled Six Ounce Tenderloin Steak, On Toast, Fresh Mushroom Sauce, Long Branch Potatoes, With Bread And Butter, Coffee Or Tea 1 1.25
Fresh Shrimp And Mushrooms, Augratin, Head Lettuce, Choice Dressing, With Bread And Butter, Coffee Or Tea 1 0.6
Turkey In The Straw Shoe String Potatoes, With Bread And Butter, Coffee Or Tea 1 0.75
Fried Jumbo Frog Legs, Tartar Sauce, Shoe String Potatoes, With Bread And Butter, Coffee Or Tea 1 1.0
Sliced Tongue And Chicken Sandwich, Potato Chips, Honey Dew Rings, Lime Sherbet, Drink, With Bread And Butter, Coffee Or Tea 1 0.5
Fried Soft Shell Crabs, Shoe String Potatoes, With Bread And Butter, Coffee Or Tea 1 1.0
Toasted Cheese Sandwich, Potato Chips, Slice Tomato, Pickles, With Bread And Butter, Coffee Or Tea 1 0.5
Broiled Florida Pompano, Drawn Butter, Long Branch Potatoes, With Bread And Butter, Coffee Or Tea 1 1.25
Shrimp And Pineapple Tid Bits In Chopped Cabbage, French Dressing, With Bread And Butter, Coffee Or Tea 1 0.6
Manhattan 1 0.25
Shad Roe Saute, Breakfast Bacon, Shoe String Potatoes, With Bread And Butter, Coffee Or Tea 1 1.0
Fresh Shrimp Cocktail 1 0.45
Grapefruit Salad, Silver Plate 1 0.6
Lobster Cocktail 1 1.0
Crab Meat Cocktail 1 0.6
Salmon Salad 1 0.5
Tuna Fish Salad 1 0.6
Frozen Fruit Salad 1 0.45
Orange Juice 1 0.2
Imported Sardines 1 0.4
Tomato Juice 1 0.15
Asparagus, Vinaigrette Salad 1 0.4
Alligator Pear Salad 1 0.45
Clam Juice 1 0.2
Sauer Kraut Juice 1 0.15
Grapefruit Juice 1 0.2
Potato Salad 1 0.25
Waldorf Salad 1 0.45
Lafayette Salad 1 0.5
Combination Salad 1 0.4
Assorted Canapes 1 0.6
Chilled Tomato Juice 1 -
Chicken Consomme, Royal 1 -
Stuffed Olives 1 0.25
Stuffed Tomato With Chicken, White Meat Only 1 0.75
Stuffed Tomato, With Chicken 1 0.6
Prune Juice 1 0.2
Ripe Olives 1 0.25
Pineapple Juice 1 0.2
Green Olives 1 0.25
Lettuce And Tomato Salad 1 0.4
Lettuce Salad 1 0.35
English Beef Soup, Anglaise 1 -
Fruit Cocktail Supreme 1 0.4
Hearts Of Celery 1 0.25
Hearts Of Celery, Stuffed 1 0.4
Fresh Fruit Salad 1 0.6
Crabmeat Salad 1 0.75
Chicken Salad 1 0.9
Bismark Herring 1 0.4
Sliced Spanish Onions 1 0.2
Antipasto 1 0.35
Cucumber Salad 1 0.35
Lobster Salad 1 1.5
Tomato Salad 1 0.35
Cole Slaw 1 0.25
Welch's Grape Juice 1 0.2
Tossed Vegetable Salad, French Dressing 1 -
Chef's With Anchovies 1 0.5
Fresh Shrimp Salad 1 0.75
French Dressing 1 0.15
Roquefort Dressing 1 0.15
Thousand Island Dressing 1 0.15
Mayonnaise Dressing 1 0.15
Russian Dressing 1 0.15
Broiled Spanish Mackerel, Piquaint Sauce 1 -
Jellied Tomato Bouillon 1 0.25
Breaded Veal Cutlet, Tomato Sauce 1 -
Kentucky Burgoo 1 0.3
Spring Lamb Hash, Green Peppers, Poached Egg 1 -
Chicken Consomme 1 0.2- 25.0
Genuine Turtle Soup 1 0.35
Peach Shortcake, Whipped Cream 1 0.35
Vegetable Soup 1 0.25
Tomato Bouillon 1 0.25
Gelatine, Whipped Cream 1 0.15
Parfaits 1 0.3
Cake 1 0.15
Mock Turtle Soup 1 0.25
Chicken Okra Gumbo 1 0.25
Cold Sliced American Beauty Ham And Swiss Cheese 1 0.75
Cream Tomato Soup 1 0.25
Ice Cream 1 0.2
Macaroons 1 0.2
Sundaes 1 0.2
Chicken Soup With Rice 1 0.3
Sherbet 1 0.2
Onion Soup Au Gratin 1 0.35
Frozen Nesselrode Pudding 1 0.2
New Green Beans 1 -
Mashed Yellow Squash 1 -
Meringue Glace 1 0.25
English Beef, Anglaise 1 0.15- 0.0
Baked Alaska (Per Person) 1 0.8
Cup Custard, Lady Fingers 1 0.55
Buttered Fresh Corn Off Cob 1 -
Potato Salad 1 -
Apple Pie A La Mode 1 0.3
Apple Pie 1 0.15
Petit Fours 1 0.2
Biscuit Tortoni 1 0.3
Fresh Rhubarb Pie 1 0.15
Candied Sweet Potatoes 1 -
Pineapple Meringue Pie 1 0.15
New Potatoes, Parsley Butter 1 -
Fresh Strawberry Shortcake 1 0.35
White Fish 1 0.75
Lake Trout 1 0.75
Halibut Steak 1 0.8
Cod Fish Cakes (2) 1 0.65
Spanish Mackerel 1 0.75
Pineapple Meringue Pie 1 -
Fresh Rhubarb Pie, Cream Cheese 1 -
Apple Pie, Cream Cheese 1 -
Half Cantaloupe 1 0.2
Guinn Island Sundae, Cake 1 -
Fresh Strawberries 1 0.3
Honey Dew Melon 1 0.3
Sherbet, Cake 1 -
Half Grapefruit 1 0.15
Ice Cream, Cake 1 -
Baked Apple 1 0.25
Sliced Bananas And Cream 1 0.25
Preserved Figs 1 0.3
Cup Custard, Lady Fingers 1 -
Roast Prime Ribs Of Beef, Extra Cut 1 0.9
Sliced Oranges 1 0.3
Veal Chop Saute 1 0.4
Guava 1 0.25
Fillet Mignon 1 1.25
American Cream Cheese, Wafers 1 -
Stewed Prunes 1 0.25
Preserves 1 0.2
Sugar Cured Ham Steak 1 0.9
Lamb Chop (1) 1 0.4
English Lamb Chop With Kidney 1 0.9
Currant Jelly 1 0.2
Bar Le Duc 1 0.35
Minute Steak 1 1.0
T Bone Steak 1 1.0
Sirloin Steak 1 1.65
Sliced Peaches And Cream 1 0.3
Rolls 1 -
Veal Cutlet, Tomato Sauce 1 0.8
Pork Chop (1) 1 0.4
Whole Wheat Bread 1 -
Veal Cutlet, Cream Sauce 1 0.8
French Bread 1 -
Corn Bread 1 -
Lamb Fries, Cream Gravy 1 0.7
Fried Half Chicken 1 0.8
Broiled Half Chicken 1 0.8
Milk 1 -
Tea 1 -
Coffee 1 -
Glass Beer 1 -
Porterhouse Steak 1 1.75
Kentucky Ham Steak (Special Cut) 1 1.25
Hamburger Steak 1 0.65
Tenderloin Steak 1 1.65
Salisbury Steak 1 0.65
Roquefort Cheese, With Toasted Wafers 1 0.3
Swiss, With Toasted Wafers 1 0.3
Camembert Cheese, With Toasted Wafers 1 0.3
Liederkranz Cheese, With Toasted Wafers 1 0.25
Philadelphia Cream Cheese 1 0.2
Plate Luncheon Choice Of Meat Or Fish, Vegetable, Salad, Dessert, Bread With Butter, Drink 1 0.6
Cottage Cheese With Cream 1 0.2
American Cheese 1 0.2
Lobster, Newburg (Served With Toasted Rolls Or Melba Toast) 1 1.25
Shrimp, Newburg (Served With Toasted Rolls Or Melba Toast) 1 0.9
Kentucky Cardinal Cream Cheese 1 0.2
Chicken A La King (Served With Toasted Rolls Or Melba Toast) 1 1.0
Flaked Crabmeat In Cream (Served With Toasted Rolls Or Melba Toast) 1 1.0
Golden Buck Rarebit (Served With Toasted Rolls Or Melba Toast) 1 0.75
Creamed Chicken (All White Meat) (Served With Toasted Rolls Or Melba Toast) 1 1.25
Welsh Rarebit (Served With Toasted Rolls Or Melba Toast) 1 0.75
Scotch Woodcock (Served With Toasted Rolls Or Melba Toast) 1 0.75
Ham And 1 Egg Sandwich, With Pickles And Potato Chips 1 0.35
Steak Sandwich With Mashed Potatoes, With Pickles And Potato Chips 1 0.7
Bacon And 1 Egg Sandwich, With Pickles And Potato Chips 1 0.35
Cold Brown Sandwich, With Pickles And Potato Chips 1 0.65
Corned Beef Sandwich, With Pickles And Potato Chips 1 0.25
Hot Brown Sandwich, With Pickles And Potato Chips 1 0.85
Hot Roast Beef Sandwich, With Pickles And Potato Chips 1 0.5
Hamburger Sandwich, With Pickles And Potato Chips 1 0.3
Cold Roast Beef Sandwich, With Pickles And Potato Chips 1 0.4
Club Sandwich, With Pickles And Potato Chips 1 0.5
Chopped Raw Beef Sandwich, With Pickles And Potato Chips 1 0.5
All White Meat Club Sandwich, With Pickles And Potato Chips 1 0.75
Assorted Cold Meats With Chicken, Potato Salad 1 1.25
Assorted Cold Meats, Potato Salad 1 1.0
Roquefort Cheese Sandwich, With Pickles And Potato Chips 1 0.3
Rainbow (Ham, Chicken, Cheese) Sandwich, With Pickles And Potato Chips 1 0.5
Chicken Salad, Boiled Egg, Mayonnaise With Luncheon 1 1.0
Cold Roast Lamb, Potato Salad 1 0.75
Cold Roast Beef, Potato Salad 1 0.85
Sardine Sandwich, With Pickles And Potato Chips 1 0.45
Swiss Cheese Sandwich, With Pickles And Potato Chips 1 0.3
Cold Kentucky Ham, Potato Salad 1 0.9
Ham Sandwich, With Pickles And Potato Chips 1 0.2
Cold Sliced Chicken, Potato Salad 1 1.0
Veal Steak, Saute, Mushroom Sauce, With Luncheon 1 1.0
New York Cream Cheese Sandwich, With Pickles And Potato Chips 1 0.2
Cold Baked Sugar Cured Ham, Potato Salad 1 0.75
Egg (2) Sandwich, With Pickles And Potato Chips 1 0.3
Tongue Sandwich, With Pickles And Potato Chips 1 0.2
Country Ham Sandwich, With Pickles And Potato Chips 1 0.3
Lettuce, Tomato Sandwich, With Pickles And Potato Chips 1 0.15
Chicken Sandwich, With Pickles And Potato Chips 1 0.4
Lettuce, Onion Sandwich, With Pickles And Potato Chips 1 0.15
Turkey Sandwich, With Pickles And Potato Chips 1 0.4
Broiled Country Ham Sandwich, With Pickles And Potato Chips 1 0.45
Broiled City Ham Sandwich, With Pickles And Potato Chips 1 0.3
Chicken Salad Sandwich, With Pickles And Potato Chips 1 0.3
Bacon And Tomato Sandwich, With Pickles And Potato Chips 1 0.3
French Fried Potatoes 1 0.25
Long Branch Potatoes 1 0.25
Au Gratin Potatoes 1 0.25
Avocado Pear And Grapefruit Salad, Minced Turkey, French Dressing, Toasted Wafers, Drink 1 1.0
Shoe String Potatoes 1 0.25
Baked Idaho Potato 1 0.25
Candied Sweet Potatoes 1 0.3
Orange Pekoe Tea 1 0.15
English Breakfast Tea 1 0.15
Young Hyson Tea 1 0.15
Succotash 1 0.3
Golden Bantam Corn On Cob 1 0.15
Coffee 1 0.15- 30.0
Postum 1 0.2
Kaffee Hag 1 0.2
French Fried Onions 1 0.3
Peas 1 0.25
Asparagus Tips 1 0.25
Hot Chocolate With Whipped Cream 1 0.2
Cocoa With Whipped Cream 1 0.2
Large Asparagus 1 0.35
String Beans 1 0.25
Sanka Coffee 1 0.2
Lima Beans 1 0.25
Buttermilk 1 0.1
Horlicks Malted Milk 1 0.2
Leaf Spinach 1 0.2
Stewed Tomatoes 1 0.25
Green Asparagus 1 0.35
Milk 1 0.1
Cream 1 0.3
Bread And Butter 1 0.1
New Beets In Butter 1 0.25
New Cauliflower, Hollandaise 1 0.35
Vegetable Dinner With Poached Egg 1 0.8
Champagne Cocktail 2 0.5
Side Car Cocktail 2 0.35
Manhattan 2 0.25
Pink Lady 2 0.25
Old Fashioned Cocktail 2 0.25
Dubonnet Cocktail 2 0.3
Lafayette Cocktail 2 0.3
Sazarac Cocktail 2 0.3
Perfect Cocktail 2 0.25
Alexander 2 0.3
Martini Cocktail 2 0.25
Bacardi Cocktail 2 0.3
Daiquiri 2 0.3
Clover Club Cocktail 2 0.25
Bronx Cocktail 2 0.25
Jack Rose 2 0.25
Orange Blossom Cocktail 2 0.25
Stinger Cocktail 2 0.3
Bacardi Cocktail 2 0.35
Royal Fizz Mixed Drink 2 0.35
Rum Sour 2 0.3
Horses Neck With Gin Mixed Drink 2 0.3
Sloe Gin Fizz Mixed Drink 2 0.3
Rum Collins 2 0.3
Tom Collins Mixed Drink 2 0.25
Gin Fizz Mixed Drink 2 0.25
Brandy Collins Mixed Drink 2 0.3
Len Junior Mixed Drink 2 0.3
Mint Julep Mixed Drink 2 0.5
Whiskey Sour Mixed Drink 2 0.25
Gin Sour Mixed Drink 2 0.25
Lafayette Flip Mixed Drink 2 0.3
Claret Lemonade Mixed Drink 2 0.25
Whiskey Flip Mixed Drink 2 0.3
Gin Rickey Mixed Drink 2 0.25
Gin Buck Mixed Drink 2 0.25
Gin Daisy Mixed Drink 2 0.25
Rum Flip 2 0.3
Swissesse 2 0.35
New Orleans Fizz 2 0.35
Sherry Cobbler Mixed Drink 2 0.3
Orangeade Mixed Drink 2 0.15
Silver Fizz Mixed Drink 2 0.35
Bacardi Rickey 2 0.3
Limeade Mixed Drink 2 0.15
Golden Fizz Mixed Drink 2 0.35
Herbsaint Frappe 2 0.3
Pousse Cafe 2 0.5
Planters Punch Mixed Drink 2 0.45
Cuba Lebra 2 0.35
Pride Of Nelson Whiskey 2 0.25
Old Taylor Bourbon 2 0.35
James E. Pepper Bourbon 2 0.3
Yellowstone Whiskey 2 0.3
Bond & Lillard 2 0.3
Kentucky Tavern Bourbon 2 0.3
Fortuna Whiskey 2 0.3
Old Elk Whiskey 2 0.25
Old Baker Whiskey 2 0.3
Bonded Beam Bourbon 2 0.25
Old Charter Bourbon 2 0.25
Old Grandad Bourbon 2 0.35
Rebel Yell Whiskey 2 0.4
Buffalo Springs Whiskey 2 0.25
Old Forester Bourbon 2 0.35
Labrot & Graham Whiskey 2 0.25
Mt. Vernon Rye 2 0.3
Canadian Club Whiskey 2 0.4
Four Roses (Blend) Whiskey 2 0.35
Old Overholt Rye 2 0.3
Seagram's V. O. Whiskey 2 0.4
Old Jordan (17 Years) Whiskey 2 0.6
Old Hoffman Whiskey 2 0.25
Kentucky Par Whiskey 2 0.25
K. Taylor Whiskey 2 0.25
Old Joe Whiskey 2 0.25
Martins Vvo Scotch 2 0.4
Haig & Haig, White Label Scotch 2 0.35
Black & White Scotch 2 0.35
Ballantine's Scotch 2 0.4
Dewar's White Label Scotch 2 0.35
King Wm. V. O. P. Scotch 2 0.35
Vat 69 Scotch 2 0.35
Johnnie Walker, Red Label Scotch 2 0.35
Haig & Haig, Pinch Scotch 2 0.45
White Horse Scotch 2 0.35
Cutty Sark Scotch 2 0.4
Jameson Irish Whiskey 2 0.4
Teacher's Scotch 2 0.35
Olympic Brandy 2 0.3
Lairds Apple Jack Brandy 2 0.3
Cointreau Cordial 2 0.4
Hennessy Cognac 2 0.25- 1.5
Creme De Menthe Liqueur 2 0.3
Kummel Cordial 2 0.3
Apricot Brandy 2 0.3
Jules Robin Cognac 2 0.35
Curacao Cordial 2 0.3
Martells Brandy 2 0.35
Benedictine Liqueur 2 0.4
Bacard Rum (Gold) 2 0.35
B & B Cordial 2 0.35
Creme De Cocao Liqueur 2 0.35
Bacardi Rum (Silver) 2 0.3
Chartreuse Cordial 2 0.35
Grand Marnier Liqueur 2 0.4
Don Q Rum (Gold) 2 0.25
Don Q Rum (White) 2 0.25
Rhine Wine 2 0.2
Port Wine, Imported 2 0.35
Port Wine 2 0.2
Cedro Wine 2 0.35
Claret Wine 2 0.2
Sherry Wine 2 0.2
Olorosso Wine 2 0.35
Sauterne Wine 2 0.2
Virginia Dare Wine 2 0.2
Duff Gordon's White Label Wine 2 0.35
Blackberry Wine 2 0.2
Muscatel Wine 2 0.2
Tokay Wine 2 0.2
Dubonnet Wine, Imported 2 0.35
Medoc Imported Red Wine 2 1.25- 0.0
Sauterne Imported White Wine 2 1.5- 2.75
St. Julien Imported Red Wine 2 1.5- 0.0
Haut Sauterne Imported White Wine 2 1.75- 3.0
Pontet Canet Imported Red Wine 2 1.75- 0.0
Rhine Imported White Wine 2 1.5- 2.75
Burgundy (Pommard) Imported Red Wine 2 3.75
Brungundy (Chablis) Imported White Wine 2 3.75
Red Cap Sparkling Burgundy Imported Red Wine 2 3.75- 0.0
Cook's Imperial Champagne 2 1.0- 5.5
White Seal Champagne 2 3.75- 6.75
Veuve Cliquot Champagne 2 3.75- 7.0
Great Western Champagne 2 1.0- 18.0
Mumm's Champagne 2 3.75- 7.5
Great Western Sparkling Burgundy 2 2.25- 8.0
Fehrs Ale 2 0.15
Pilsner (Imported) Beer 2 0.5
Ballantine Ale 2 0.25
Ye Tavern Brew 2 0.15
Budweiser Beer 2 0.2
Old Towne Ale 2 0.15
Bass Ale (Imported) 2 0.5
Carlings Ale 2 0.15
Blue Ribbon Beer 2 0.2
Bruck's Ale 2 0.15
Guinness Stout (Imported) 2 0.5
Schlitz Beer 2 0.2
Falls City Ale 2 0.15
Rams Head Ale 2 0.2
Club Soda, Syphon 2 0.4
Apollinaris Mineral Water 2 0.25- 0.75
Canada Dry Ginger Ale 2 0.25
White Rock Mineral Water 2 0.2- 55.0
Coca Cola 2 0.1
Kentucky Club Gingerale 2 0.2
Poland Water 2 0.5- 40.0
Red Raven 2 0.2
Canada Dry Sparkling Water 2 0.25- 0.7
Celestine Vichy Mineral Water 2 0.4
Lime Rickey 2 0.2
7 Up 2 0.1
Egg Lemonade 2 0.3
Apollinaris Lemonade 2 0.3
White Rock Lemonade 2 0.25