Clifton House, Niagara Falls, 1855 Sizes:50x76cm (20x30 inch) Archival Print (Unframed) Grand Central Terminal was constructed

Grand Central Terminal was constructed on the site of the former Grand Central Depot

Attire is optional but when tables are scarce

president of the American Hotel Corporation

this is the 1920s and his opinions about the “nourishment of the human frame ”were new and controversial at the time

food dishes were scrawled on a blackboard so there was no paper menu

Clifton House, Niagara Falls, 1855 Sizes:50x76cm (20x30 inch) Archival Print (Unframed) Grand Central Terminal was constructedThis 1855 bill of fare is the oldest menu in The Culinary Institute of Americas collection and it is a beauty. Both printed and handwritten, it shows that diners in the Clifton Hotel at Niagara Falls ate and drank very well indeed. The menu is heavy on meat and the wine list is comprehensive for that era. Only rich people could afford to stay or eat here, of course. The Clifton hotel was opened in 1833 by Harmanus Monty Crysler, a New Yorker who moved