While a meal could be as mixed as the mixed grill, with careful choosing diners can enjoy a first-class dinner at this gracious restaurant.
"I don't see how you could go from New York to Europe without gaining 20 pounds," Mrs. Beazley said, looking at a 1935 first-class dinner menu from the Normandie that offered three kinds of consommé, six types of ham and five choices of ice cream.
Inside the restaurant in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, the owners, Frank Castronovo and Frank Falcinelli, shook off the German influence that informs the restaurant's regular bill of fare and adopted a French attitude, recreating the Titanic's last supper — the first-class dinner menu for April 14 , 1912
In the late 1970's, a first-class dinner menu for a Pan Am flight from New York to Tokyo offered a study in gluttony: beluga caviar, roast beef slathered in gravy, creamy potatoes, buttered vegetables, cheeses and ice cream with fudge sauce.
A canvas life jacket stamped "Andrea Doria" and three lots with glass drinking vessels and third-class dinner plates with the "Italia" logo have estimates of up to $1,200 each.
Let's just say I was not at all sorry to abandon fourth-grade homework, a second-grade class dinner, the subway, my office, two weekend soccer games and the cat box.
Just what is so hard, you may ask, about flying first class and eating elegant dinners that you don't have to cook (or pay for) yourself?
At dinner in first class that evening the seventh course was roast squab and cress: enough said.
At dinner in first class that evening the seventh course was roast squab and cress: enough said," writes Op-Ed columnist Roger Cohen in "The Titanic and the End of an Era".
What with serving as a sommelier at the Fathers Who Cook dinner, attending "the first Class VII parents in Action Meeting," lacing up my kids' Chargers on Great Skate Night at Wollman Rink, attending a performance of "Iolanthe," and hawking raffle tickets for the school fund drive door to door in our building, who has time for work?.
What with serving as a sommelier at the Fathers Who Cook dinner, attending "the first Class VII parents in Action Meeting," lacing up my kids' Chargers on Great Skate Night at Wollman Rink, attending a performance of "Iolanthe," and hawking raffle tickets for the school fund drive door to door in our building, who has time for work?..
