Restaurants Collection (page 2)

Interior view of the Dutch Kitchen Restaurant in Cardiff, with its heavy 17th century style panelling and furniture. Date: 1909

Suggested decor and layout for a high-class luncheon and dining room of the 1900s. With the painted green panelled walls and elegant furniture

Suggestion for decor and layout of a tea room and club room in the 1900s. Date: 1909

A light and airy restaurant dining-room with starched white tablecloths and numerous pot plants dotted around. Date: 1909

Example of an Edwardian restaurant interior notable for some art nouveau style ironwork surrounding a clock and the surfeit of pot plants scattered around. Date: 1909

Photograph of what is described as a high-class restaurant in Britain during the Edwardian era. The room is slightly baronial in style with wood panelling and studded dining chairs

Interior of what is described as a high class confectioners tea room with a counter offer tempting cakes and sweets in the foreground and tables and chair beyond. Date: 1909

Autori and Sovrani at The Blue Train Grill
The basso opera singer and caricaturist Autori, pictured with Maitre d Signor Autori at The Blue Train Grill in Stratton Street, London, one of the citys most fashionable haunts

Hickory House Restaurant, New York City, USA
Hickory House Restaurant, West 52nd Street, New York City, USA, also at Miami Beach, Florida. Famous for genuine hickory log broiled steaks and chops. Date: circa 1940

Lum Fongs Chinese Restaurants, New York City, USA - uptown in West 52nd Street and downtown in Canal Street. Date: circa 1940

Main Restaurant, Hotel Piccadilly, New York City, USA
Main Restaurant, Hotel Piccadilly, West 45th Street at Broadway, New York City, USA. Date: circa 1930

Hungaria River Club, Maidenhead, 1929
The Hungaria River Club in fashionable Maidenhead, packed with Society and Bohemia every weekend. The scene was sketched by Bystander artist Helen McKie in the restaurant

Kettners advertisement, 1907
Advertisement for Kettners restaurant emphasising its pleasant surroundings and moderate prices. Date: 1907

Supper dance in progress at Kettner s
A supper dance in progress at Kettners in 1926. The Bystander writes, At this famous restaurant, which has now regained the popularity which made it so established a success in the Edwardian period

Arthur Giordano, managing director of Kettner s
Arturo Giordano, known simply as Arthur, Managing Director of the famous Kettners restaurant in Soho. Date: 1930

Esplanade Restaurant, Funchal, Madeira
Terreiro da Luta (fighting yard), Esplanade Restaurant, Funchal, Madeira. Date: circa 1910

Blackout, meal by candlelight, 1949
Once again the victims of an unofficial strike: the long-suffering public. Recalling the inconveniences of the long wartime blackout

FRASCATIs RESTAURANT
Dining and dancing at Restaurant Frascati, the worlds rendezvous, Oxford Street, London. Date: 1920s

Small Restaurant Date: 1948

Truckers Leave Diner Date: 1950

New Years Eve at the Savoy Hotel
Smart society celebrate the New Year of 1912 in the restaurant of the Savoy Hotel, London. Date: 1912

DODGY RESTAURANT COOK
Tricks of the food trade: one cook explains to another how to cheat customers by lying about the weight of mutton legs. Date: 1834

Cartoon, Unpleasant Duties of Club Life. When the new French chef Victor Achille Petroly is summoned to receive a reprimand, the club members lose their appetite for complaining about the food

PLACE DU TERTRE DINING
People eating out in La Place du Tertre, Montmartre, Paris. Date: 1933

PAYING THE BILL C1836
Two diners look horrified at the sight of their meal bill. Date: circa 1836

VICTORIA ROOMS C20
The J.P. Restaurant at Victoria, London offers breakfasts, luncheons and freshly made tea. Date: early 20th century

FOREIGNER ORDERS FOOD
A foreigner struggles to order a meal in a restaurant. Date: 1849

CITY DINING ROOMS 1858
A busy lunchtime at one oclock in the dining rooms at Bucklersbury, London. Date: 1858

CATERPILLAR IN THE CHOP
Here, waiter! Heres a-eeres a-a-caterpillar in this chop! Yessir. About the time oyear for em just now, sir! Date: late 19th century

STALE EGGS IN RESTAURANT
Confound it, waiter! How long do you keep eggs? Till theyre ate sor! Date: 1877

HAYMARKET SUPPER ROOMS
Midnight at supper rooms in the Haymarket, London, where oysters, coffee and lemonade are on sale to gentlemen who may require them. Date: 1858

Piccadilly Grill 1915
Elegant diners-out, all but one (a uniformed soldier) in evening dress, patronise the Piccadilly Grill, a noted restaurant in the fashionable heart of London Date: 1915

REFORM DINING ROOM
The waiter in the Reform dining room shouts his order to the kitchen. Date: 1835

A customer with a complaint
A man complains in a restaurant about his plate being cold

SAVOY DINNER 1912
Dinner at The Savoy Date: 1912

Mural decorations in the Stockwell British Restaurant during the Second World War, on the theme of scenes in Stockwell and carried out by Derek Crowe

Mural decorations in the Vauxhall British Restaurant during the Second World War, on the theme of Vauxhall Gardens and carried out by E. K. Edney

Scene inside a British Restaurant, one of a number of communal restaurants during the Second World War providing a cooked meal, with dessert and a cup of tea, for around the cost of 1s.2d

Interior of a British Restaurant, one of a number of communal restaurants during the Second World War providing a cooked meal, with dessert and a cup of tea, for around the cost of 1s.2d

Exterior of a British Restaurant, one of a number of communal restaurants during the Second World War providing a cooked meal, with dessert and a cup of tea, for around the cost of 1s.2d

The cash and carry entrance of an unidentified British Restaurant. British Restaurants were set up during the war to provide nutritious and economical meals for the population. Date: 1946

The Main Street (Hauptstrasse) at Thun, Switzerland
The Main Street (Hauptstrasse) at Thun, Bernese Oberland region, Switzerland. Date: circa 1904

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, dining saloon
The dining saloon (not to be confused with the restaurant) for Cabin Class passengers on the Queen Mary Date: 1935

Daphne Rye of Daphnes restaurant
Daphne Rye (1916 10 November 1992), director, actress and casting director as well as proprietor of Daphnes restaurant in Draycott Avenue

Formosa Oolong Tea advertisement, WW1
Advertisement for Formosa Oolong Tea Rooms, the perfect place to unwind after a tiring day doing war work, such as these nurses pictured

West Central Rooms Folmans Restaurant
West Central Rooms Folmans restaurant, a kosher restaurant in London. Date: 1947

Restaurant Bella Romagna in Dekemhare, Eritrea
View on the Italian restaurant " Bella Romagna" in Dekemhare, south-east of Asmara in Eritrea. Date: circa 1930

Dining families at Alfi Bey Street, Cairo
Dining families at a restaurant at Alfi Bey Street - Cairo, Egypt. Date: circa 1925

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