Then & now
Old Upstate menus
275 historical menus from Upstate New York places, indexed by the menugraph project from the New York Public Library’s What’s on the Menu? and the Culinary Institute of America menu collection. Links go to the library record; images stay with the libraries.
This is a starter list. Few of today’s dishes show up on these menus by name yet, so dish pages only show a history note where the match is clear (so far: ice cream).
Mohonk Lake
- 1900 Lake Mohonk Mountain House, dinner menu
- 1910 Lake Mohonk House, dinner menu
- 1910 Lake Mohonk Mountain House, Sunday dinner menu
- 1911 Lake Mohonk Mountain House, Fourth of July, dinner menu
- 1913 Lake Mohonk Mountain House, Fourth of July menu
- 1915 Lake Mohonk House, dinner menu
- 1916 Lake Mohonk House, breakfast menu
- 1916 Lake Mohonk Mountain House, dinner menu
- 1916 Lake Mohonk Mountain House, supper menu
- 1928 Lake Mohonk Mountain House, breakfast menu
- 1928 Lake Mohonk Mountain House, breakfast menu
- 1928 Lake Mohonk Mountain House, breakfast menu
- 1928 Lake Mohonk Mountain House, breakfast menu
- 1928 Lake Mohonk Mountain House, dinner menu
- 1928 Lake Mohonk Mountain House, dinner menu
- 1928 Lake Mohonk Mountain House, dinner menu
- 1928 Lake Mohonk Mountain House, dinner menu
- 1928 Lake Mohonk Mountain House, dinner menu
- 1928 Lake Mohonk Mountain House, dinner menu
- 1928 Lake Mohonk Mountain House, supper menu
- 1928 Lake Mohonk Mountain House, supper menu
- 1928 Lake Mohonk Mountain House, supper menu
- 1928 Lake Mohonk Mountain House, supper menu
- 1929 Lake Mohonk House, breakfast menu
- 1929 Lake Mohonk Mountain House, dinner menu
- 1929 Lake Mohonk Mountain House, dinner menu
- 1929 Lake Mohonk Mountain House, early dinner menu
- 1929 Lake Mohonk Mountain House, early dinner menu
- 1929 Lake Mohonk Mountain House, Sunday supper menu
- 1929 Lake Mohonk Mountain House, Sunday supper menu
- 1929 Lake Mohonk Mountain House, Sunday supper menu
- 1929 Lake Mohonk Mountain House, Sunday supper menu
- 1929 Lake Mohonk Mountain House, supper menu
- 1929 Lake Mohonk Mountain House, supper menu
- 1929 Mohonk, breakfast menu
- 1929 Mohonk, breakfast menu
- 1929 Mohonk, breakfast menu
- 1929 Mohonk, supper menu
- 1932 Lake Mohonk Mountain House, breakfast menu
- 1932 Lake Mohonk Mountain House, breakfast menu
Saratoga Springs
- 1856 Congress Hall, Daily Menu
- 1880 United States Hotel, Daily Menu,supper
- 1881 Grand Union Hotel, Dinner Menu
- 1881 United States Hotel, Dinner Menu
- 1900 Claremont Hotel, Dinner
- 1900 Congress Hall, Dinner
- 1900 Congress Hall, Dinner
- 1900 Congress Hall, Dinner
- 1900 Congress Hall, Dinner
- 1900 Congress Hall, Dinner
- 1900 Congress Hall, Dinner
- 1900 Congress Hall, Dinner
- 1900 Congress Hall, Dinner
- 1900 Congress Hall, Dinner
- 1900 Congress Hall, Dinner
- 1900 Congress Hall, Luncheon
- 1900 Congress Hall, Luncheon
- 1900 Congress Hall, Luncheon
- 1900 Congress Hall, Luncheon
- 1900 Congress Hall, Luncheon
- 1900 Congress Hall, Luncheon
- 1900 Congress Hall, Luncheon
- 1900 Congress Hall, Luncheon
- 1900 Congress Hall, Supper
- 1900 United States Hotel, Breakfast
- 1900 United States Hotel, Dinner
- 1901 Grand Union, Breakfast
- 1901 Grand Union, Breakfast
- 1901 Grand Union, Dinner
- 1901 Grand Union, Dinner
- 1901 Grand Union, Luncheon
- 1927 New Worden, supper menu
- 1953 Pete's Paramount Restaurant and Lobster House, dinner menu
Buffalo
- n.d. Hotel Iroquois, Viennese buffet, tea menu
- n.d. Iroquois Hotel, a la carte menu
- n.d. Major Hoople's Boarding House and Eating Establishment, menu
- n.d. Park Lane, menu
- n.d. Sheik, menu
- 1855 American Hotel, Table D'hote
- 1890 Oak Bluffs Club, Cold Dinner
- 1890 Oak Bluffs Club, Dinner
- 1890 Oak Bluffs Club, Dinner
- 1897 Buffalo Club, Dinner
- 1899 New Tifft House, Easter Sunday Dinner
- 1900 Statler's, Dinner
- 1901 Electric Tower Restaurant, Daily Menu
- 1901 Luchow's Pan American Restauant Co., Pan-american Restaurant Co.
- 1901 New York State Bankers Association Dinner, Stadium Restaurant, Exposition Grounds, menu
- 1901 Statler's Hotel, Breakfast
- 1901 Statler's Hotel, Dinner
- 1901 Statler's Hotel, Luncheon
- 1906 Ellicott Club, 11th Anniversary Buffalo Banquet
- 1907 Orpheus Masquerade, Dinner
- 1911 Happy New Year at Hotel Iroquois, menu
- 1911 Lawyer's Club of Buffalo, dinner at the Iroquois Hotel, menu
- 1912 Association of American Advertisers, twelfth annual dinner, Hotel Iroquois, menu
- 1912 Hotel Iroquois, menu
- 1920 Iroquois, luncheon menu
- 1923 Lehigh Valley Railroad, Buffalo Terminal Restaurant, menu
- 1923 Lehigh Valley Railroad, Buffalo Terminal Restaurant, menu
- 1955 Cafe Rouge, Hotel Statler, a la carte menu
Ellicott Square, Buffalo
- 1901 Statler's Hotel And Restaurant, Breakfast
- 1901 Statler's Hotel And Restaurant, Breakfast
- 1901 Statler's Hotel And Restaurant, Breakfast
- 1901 Statler's Hotel And Restaurant, Dinner
- 1901 Statler's Hotel And Restaurant, Dinner
- 1901 Statler's Hotel And Restaurant, Dinner
- 1901 Statler's Hotel And Restaurant, Dinner
- 1901 Statler's Hotel And Restaurant, Luncheon
- 1901 Statler's Hotel And Restaurant, Luncheon
- 1901 Statler's Hotel And Restaurant, Luncheon
- 1901 Statler's Hotel And Restaurant, Luncheon
Poughkeepsie
- n.d. Le Pavillon, menu
- n.d. Max, menu
- n.d. Max, menu
- n.d. Nelson House, Coffee Shop, breakfast menu
- 1895 Nelson House, Dinner
- 1898 Amrita Club 25th Anniversary, Nelson House, menu
- 1903 Amrita Club, Sixth Annual Dinner, Nelson House, menu
- 1938 Vassar Alumnae House, luncheon menu
- 1946 Smith Brothers Restaurant, menu
Hotel Iroquois, Buffalo
- 1890 American Street Railway Association, 9th Annual Banquet
- 1896 Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite, 4th Annual Banquet
- 1897 Ancient & Honorable Artillery Company Of Massachusetts, 260th Fall Field Day
- 1897 National Hardware Association, Banquet
- 1898 Central Railway Club, Smoker
- 1905 Mr. Thomas W.Wilson, Bachelor Party Dinner
- 1908 Norman E. Mack, Dinner To J.f.burke And H.m.gerrans
Lake Placid
Niagara Falls
Syracuse
Albany
Ellicott Club, Buffalo
Schenectady
The Ten Eyck, Albany
Saratoga
Cataract House, Niagara Falls
Deeming Hall, Ithaca
Elmira
Lake George
Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo
Albany Club (Albany
Albany Club, Albany
Batavia
Binghamton
Congress Hall, Saratoga Springs
Convention Hall, (Buffalo
Convention Hall, Buffalo
- 1907 B.P.O.E., Dinner
Dates, The, Syracuse
Delavan House, Albany
Elmira Heights
- n.d. Pierce's 1894, menu