Restaurant Collection (#32)

Joes Restaurant, Brooklyn
Joes Restaurant, Fulton Street, Brooklyn, New York City, America

Brass Rail Restaurant, New York
Brass Rail Restaurant, at 7th Avenue and 49th Street, New York City, America

Maine Maid restaurant, Long Island
Maine Maid restaurant, Jericho, Long Island

Restaurant Losenegger, Charlotte Street, London
Restaurant Losenegger, 93 & 91 Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square, London

French warship at Saigon
La Triomphante - an old French warship moored up at Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam. The ship appears to have been converted into a covered waterfornt facility - possibly a restaurant?

Advertising card for a Hotel on Mont St Michel, France
Advertising card for the Hotel Duguesclin on Mont Saint-Michel, housing the Piquerel Restaurant. The meat of the lambs/sheep which graze on the salt meadows beside the town has a wonderful flavour to

Life at Monte Carlo
Well-to-do holiday-makers sit outdoors, enjoying the blue skies and sunshine of Monte Carlo as well as a drink or two

Squaring the Dance Circles by Reginald Higgins
A stylish 1920s couple are distracted from their dancing by an engrossing crossword puzzle, all the rage in 1925. The caption reads, " A word of five letters, beginning with C

Old bakery in St Gallen, Switzerland
View of the decorated exterior of an old bakery in the Spiesergasse (Spisergasse), St Gallen, Switzerland

Old timber-framed buildings, St Gallen, Switzerland
View of some old, timber-framed buildings with a restaurant on the ground floor in the old part of St Gallen, Switzerland

Vienna - Anschluss
Viennas smartest outdoor restaurant is situated in the famous Vienna woods on top of a hill called the " Kahlenburg", overlooking Vienna and the Danube

Boulogne Restaurant, London
The Boulogne Restaurant (exterior and interior) on Gerrard Street, London

Lyons Corner House - Mountview Cafe
The interior of the Mountview Cafe - Lyons Corner House, at the corner of Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road, London

The Grill Room - Crosby Hall, London. Crosby Hall, Cheyne Walk, Chelsea originally stood in Bishopsgate, where it was the Great Hall of the 15th century Crosby Place

Refreshment rooms in Bath
Creeses variety restaurant in Bath, south-west England, owned by E Baily, offering among other things Frys Cocoa and chocolate, and dinners such as peas, potatoes and faggots

Bernsteins Fish Grotto - San Francisco, USA
Bernsteins Fish Grotto - San Francisco, California, USA. The Ship that never goes to Sea - one of the more extraordinary restaurant frontages one will come across

Stauchs Restaurant, Coney Island, New York, America

Industrial Exhibition - Stockholm, Sweden 1909
The Restaurant Bispen at the Konstindustriutstallningen Exhibition at Stockholm, Sweden. A precursor of Swedish Moden Design

Interior of a Moorish Cafe - Algiers
The interior of a Moorish Cafe - Algiers, Algeria

Menu for The Holborn Restaurant, Kingsway, London
The restaurant was next door to the Embassy Theatre in High Holborn on the corner of Kingsway. It was very large and banquets were given there in 1908 for the athletes participating in the London

Selfridges, London - Corner of Restaurant
Selfridges & Co, Oxford Street, London - Corner of Restaurant. Founded by American-born retail magnate Harry Gordon Selfridge (1858 - 1947), the Flagship store in Oxford Street was opened in 1909

Dining car on the Great Northern Railway

Morocco - A public meeting in a restaurant. The architecture of the building shows typical Moorish influence in the open arcading of the lower and upper terraces

Poissy on the Seine. Restaurant de L Esturgeon
Poissy on the Seine - the Restaurant de L Esturgeon. Close to Paris. A place to eat Sturgeon and the famous Seine Salmon. The last sturgeon was caught there in 1931

Leanders Tower, Constantinople, also known as Kiz Kulesi, set within a border of a large white seashell. Also known as the Maidens Tower - standing a few hundred metres off the village of Uskudar

The Swiss house - a restaurant at Schluckenau in the north of the Czech Republic, close to the border with Germany - the card features vignettes of the restaurant including scenes of the staff

Paper is placed in the printing press
A printer at a print works removes a large printed page from the printing press. The sheet depicts food items, possibly for a recipe book or calendar. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

New Plymouth, New Zealand
The Plymouth Tea Rooms, New Plymouth, New Zealand

In a French bar
A waiter waits patiently for a customer to find the money needed to pay for his glass of wine

The Tatler Christmas Number front cover 1919
A couple manage to dance energetically on a restaurants dancefloor while simultaneously drinking champagne

RMS Olympic, Queens Hotel Queenstown
Two items relating to the RMS Olympic luxury cruise liner. An information card for the Queens Hotel, Queenstown (on the southern coast of Ireland) boasts of redecoration

Titanic copperware
A copper pot from the ill-fated Titanic cruise ship, which sank on 15 April 1912. It bears the inscription White Star Line Restaurant

Various Titanic items
Various items from RMS Titanic, namely receipts for meals and typing, a headed letter card, a restaurant card, and a box of matches

Izmir, Turkey - Cordelio
A Greek Restaurant on a road junction in the Cordelio (Karsiyaka)suburb of Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey

Egypt - Open Air Restaurant and Water Seller
An open Air restaurant in Egypt and a water seller / carrier

The Restaurant
A young boy in a sailor suit, treats his girl to a meal in a fancy restaurant. In the background a suave waiter serves a lidded plate of food to another diner

Success: Or the Ever Diminishing Dancefloor by Leslie Butler
Humorous illustration by Leslie Butler showing an unfeasibly crowded, popular restaurant, with tables crowded together and waiters struggling to reach customers between the very few gaps

Railway Dining Car with waiters

The Band That Blew Too Hard by Hynes
Humorous illustration showing a band in a club or restaurant blowing their brass instruments so hard, that diners and dancers find themselves struggling against a gale force wind - wigs are blown off

The Metamorphosis of the Herring by A. K. Macdonald
Two contrasting illustrations. The first shows workers at a quayside or harbour - perhaps Grimsby, sorting a catch of herrings just brought in by a fishing trawler

London as a Cosmopolis
Uniforms of all the Allies in the lounge of a bustling London restaurant during World War One. French and Russian soldiers are among the now common sites in the capital city

Receiving the Check
Entitled " We Have Met With A Slight Check in one Quarter" a man displays shock on receiving the bill after dinner with a rather glamorous companion

Dinners singing Auld Lang Syne at the Savoy Restaurant, 19
Illustration showing some of the thousand guests who had supper at the Savoy Hotel on New Years Eve, 1907, and sang Auld Lang Syne to see in the New Year

Paris Apartments 1 of 2
From the restaurant at the bottom of the building to the schoolroom near the top, the inhabitants of a Paris apartment house pursue their various lifestyles

Placing an Order 1929
A smart waiter takes the order of a seated couple

The Duval Restaurant, Paris, 1878
Engraving of The Duval Restaurant at the Paris Exhibition of 1878. This restaurant was a huge wooden building, capable of seating several thousand diners. Date: 1878

Christmas Dinner 1931
A jolly group in party hats hold out their plates for freshly carved turkey during Christmas dinner at Antoines restaurant, Charlotte Street, London

A kitchen in a motor car
An eight horse-power car used to transport piping hot meals from a well-known Parisian restaurant to people in their homes

All Professionally Made to Order for Quick Shipping