1897 - Restaurants

Restaurants

Chef Auguste Escoffier at London creates cherries Jubilee à la reine to celebrate the occasion of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.

Japan gets her first railroad dining car. For first-class passengers only, it has a Western-style menu. Economy-class dining cars will open within a year or two, offering only Japanese foods (available for years from vendors walking through the cars selling wooden boxes called bento containing rice with seafood, vegetables, fruit, and the like).

A new Delmonico's restaurant that will survive until 1923 opens November 15 at the northeast corner of New York's Fifth Avenue and 44th Street (see 1876). Charles Crist Delmonico (he has received permission from the state legislature to add his great uncle's name) plays host to more than 1,000 patrons, who dine in the Ladies' Restaurant, the Palm Garden, the Gentlemen's Elizabethan Café, the private dining and banquet rooms, the ballroom, and the Roof Conservatory.

"Diners" make their first appearance as Boston, New York, and Philadelphia replace their horsedrawn trolleys with electric cars; obtained by enterprising promoters for $20 each, the discarded trolleys are fitted with stoves and dishes and resold as lunch wagons (see 1919).

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