The Press Club Annual Dinner, (Winston Churchill), London, 1903

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The Press Club Annual Dinner, (Winston Churchill), London, 1903Founded in 1882, The Press Club was one of Londons famed gentlemans clubs; based near Fleet Street it was primarily for journalists, and had a reputation as one of the most raucous clubs in town (which shouldnt surprise anyone who knows any journalists). The menu cover for its 1903 dinner, held at the grand Hotel Cecil on the Strand, just down the road from Fleet Street, hints at the lavish food and drink on offer. Inside we find a menu full of

"Biff's Coffee Shop

expanding into United States

Held created cheerful art showing his characters dancing

ragtime - a style of early jazz music written largely for the piano and characterized by jaunty rhythms – was enormously popular

With thanks to Chris Hirst for the tip

New York-based restaurant of the same name that had been a popular hang-out for vaudevillians in the 1920s

but he or she created a beautiful and stylish menu cover

From this restaurant’s enviable site

Tweed's fall meant that The Knickerbocker never got built

Many thanks to the current owner Jeff for allowing us to show this menu

It also had its own print shop that produced classic menus like this four-part series from 1942

playing till 1am every day of the week