Dish

Shrimp cocktail

Where it shows up on confirmed Upstate menus.

On confirmed menus

Every restaurant whose confirmed menu lists it, with each item’s confirmed date. No prices.

1 place in 1 town: Troy
Regions: Capital Region (1)
Menu sections it’s listed under: Appetizers (1)

Based on 1 confirmed menu out of 20 restaurants whose menus we’ve confirmed, among the 379 places listed on this site. Other places may well serve it; their menus aren’t confirmed yet, so they aren’t listed here.

Fresh: confirmed on the official menu within 30 days (7 days for specials). Aging: up to twice that. Stale: older. Status updates in your browser from the confirmed date.

Red Front · Troy · Capital Region · Confirmed menu
- Shrimp Cocktail Fresh confirmed on the official menu Oct 11, 2026

What it is

From the upstate.lol menu taxonomy.

Cuisine: American
Kind of dish: appetizer
Also listed as: alaska shrimp cocktail, bay shrimp cocktail, crabmeat and shrimp cocktail, drakes bay shrimp cocktail, florida shrimp cocktail, fresh gulf shrimp cocktail, fresh jumbo shrimp cocktail, fresh shrimp cocktail

On old menus

From historical menus indexed for this guide (NYPL What’s on the Menu? and the CIA menu collection).

Earliest dated Upstate menus in the indexed library collections that list it:

1953 · “Fresh Jumbo Shrimp Cocktail” at Paramount Pete's Restaurant, Saratoga Springs · library record ↗ The Culinary Institute of America
1953 · Paramount Pete's Restaurant, Saratoga Springs · library record ↗ The Culinary Institute of America
1954 · “Fresh Shrimp Cocktail 90” at Keeler's State Street, Albany · library record ↗ The Culinary Institute of America

Upstate historical menus listing it, by decade: 1950s (4 menus).

In the New York Public Library menu collection overall, it first shows up in the 1910s and appears through the 2000s.

Earliest among the menus indexed, not the dish’s first appearance anywhere.

Related dishes

Same kind of dish in the taxonomy, on confirmed menus.