Wheeler's The Ivy, London, 1950s Lunch Tri Boro Bridge and the

Tri Boro Bridge and the Brooklyn Bridge)  and the recently completed La Guardia Airport that the Hotel New Yorker produced as menu covers in 1941

This is a charming example of vintage menu art from a banquet honouring Firefighters

This 1885 menu illustrates how wealthy the northern English city of Bradford was at the end of the 19th century

introduced the concept of a disciplined and highly organized kitchen brigade and demanded standards of cleanliness that were then uncommon

though still among the most popular transatlantic liners

Wheeler's The Ivy, London, 1950s Lunch Tri Boro Bridge and theThe Ivy, one of London's most celebrated restaurants, began life in 1916 as an unlicensed caf selling food but soon got a dash of glamour when owner Abel Glandellini joined forces with maitre d'Hotel Mario Gallati. It quickly became a favorite of the theatre crowd, attracting Marlene Dietrich, Laurence Olivier and Dame Nellie Melba among others. The Ivy's fortunes waxed and waned but its boom years came around again in the 1990s when Hollywood stars