Restaurant Menus

A friend was helping to clean out a house for an estate sale and ran across a trove of old restaurant menus. The owner gave them to her and she gave them to me. I have just gotten around to looking through them. If anyone would like to have a specific one for nostalgia please drop me an email. These are all old.


Beef 'n' Boards Dinner Theatre of Simpsonville presents "Once upon a Mattress"

Schnapps Bar & Grill

The Timbers Restaurant & Fish Market- Sanibel Island, Fl

Mario's Pizza- 23 Locations around the state including Oxmoor

Executuive Inn Rivermont-Room Service- Ribeye Steak $2.95

Tropical Drink Menu from Ala Moana Americana in Waikiki

Union Station Hotel- ?????

The New York Steak Exchange- A Kentucky Company June 1978

Luncheon Menu from Claudia Sanders Dinner House where the most expensive item on the menu was the Vegetable Plate. For $3.65 you got Appetizer, salad, eight vegetables of your choice, hot biscuits, honey and a drink!

The Wine Cellar- North Redington Beach,Fl

Room Service The Sheraton Hartford Hotel

Sammy's Bowery Follies- 267 Bowery New York

The Westin Hotel- Cincinnati

Room Service at The Ala Moana Americana Hawaii

Applegates Landing- Louisville Ky

The King's Wharf-???????

Bll Knapp's- Battle Creek, Mi

Gingerbread Man- Allentown, Pa

101st Airborne Restaurant- Tennessee?

Shillito-Rike's Dining Room- Louisville Ky

The Bubble Room Wine List- Captiva Island, Fl

The Luau Room- Louisville Ky

The Savoy- 727 W Main St Lousville Ky

Take Five- Louisville Ky

The Crow's Nest- Lyndon Ky

Spats- Nashville Tn

The Summit- Waikiki Hawaii

The Windjammer- The Florida Keys?

W.C. Karem's- Oxmoor Center

Victoria Station- Louisville Ky

Island Pizza- Sanibel Island Fl

Nuevo Kentucky Restaurant- 625 Avenida Revolucion Tijuana Mexico

The Cloister Restaurant- Hartford Ct

Rookwood Pottery Food & Drink- Cincy Oh

The Beef Barron- Detroit Mi

The 1st Chi-Chi's menu- Louisville Ky

Joe Z's and Capain Hooks- ???????

The Windmill- Hikes Point Ky

Carrousel Motel Dining Room- Cincy Oh

1965 Hasenour's Restaurant menu- Louisville Ky

Sorry for the long post but it is an interesting stash.

There are several educational organizations that collect restaurant menus for their archives: The Culinary Institute of America (CIA), The Los Angeles Public Library and the New York Public Library, to name a few. It's possible that UofL has a similar archive.

You might consider donating your collection to a place where it would be preserved.

I think it would be an interesting project to write a city history through the lens of its restaurant menus.

Great stuff - thanks for posting it.

The 101st Airborne (I'm pretty sure about this) was in Nashville at the airport. I know I was there sometime in the 80s.

If it's the same Mario's, I cooked pizza in one in Bowling Green in the mid-70s as a 14 year-old.

Executive Inn Rivermont - Owensboro, not Paducah, right?

Anyway, enjoyed the post!

A blast from the past - thanks for taking time to type all that, Ed!

Shillito-Rikes Dining Room - Who knew?

The Luau Room: at the old Standiford Field Terminal

Victoria Station: lots of folks here have posted memories of that place (I took a few dates there)

Hasenour's: from 1965? that was its heyday. A Louisville landmark.

101st Airborne: was indeed near the Nashville Airport and closed only recently. Of course it was announced here: 101st Airborne closes

There are several educational organizations that collect restaurant menus for their archives: The Culinary Institute of America (CIA), The Los Angeles Public Library and the New York Public Library, to name a few. It's possible that UofL has a similar archive.

You might consider donating your collection to a place where it would be preserved.

I think it would be an interesting project to write a city history through the lens of its restaurant menus.

What a great find, Ed. My first thought was the same as Sonya's as I've enjoyed exhibitions of historic menus at both CIA and NYPL - it is so interesting to see how we ate in different times in our history. Does Louisville have an historical society? Seems like that might be a good place to archive the collection.

OMG, I miss Bill Knapps!

What a tragedy when that place closed.

I'll pay someone to read to me in a sultry voice about chicken fricasse and ham croquettes.

To think I will never have their au gratin potatoes again.

I grew up in Battle Creek and Knapps was very much a part of the town. We always went their for birthdays, it was one of my first serving jobs and my brother's first cooking jobs, and their commisary employed a lot of folks with good paying jobs. I hate that it is gone.

OMG, I miss Bill Knapps!

What a tragedy when that place closed.

I'll pay someone to read to me in a sultry voice about chicken fricasse and ham croquettes.

To think I will never have their au gratin potatoes again.

I grew up in Battle Creek and Knapps was very much a part of the town. We always went their for birthdays, it was one of my first serving jobs and my brother's first cooking jobs, and their commisary employed a lot of folks with good paying jobs. I hate that it is gone.

I was thinking the same.
I grew up in the East Lansing area until i was 8 or so, then spent every summer there prety much until i started working...

Bill Knapps was oftentimes where we had a special family gathering.

ah... nostalgia.

Eleven years ago, I moved from Louisville to San Diego. For those of you unfamiliar with our geography, Tijuana is about 10 miles south of the city. When I moved here, I'd go down to TJ (local for Tijuana) and shop on Avenue Revolucion. There was no Nueva Kentucky Restaurant, but there was a KFC and a few shops in what was called Kentucky Square. I asked one of the shopkeepers (most shopkeepers in TJ speak English) the history of it. He told me that during Prohibition, there was this man from Kentucky who opened a Bourbon distillery down there, which failed. Kentucky Square has since been torn down.

I lived in Okemos from the time I was 4, until I was 10. Great place. We used to eat at Bill Knapps. I remember it fondly.