New York World's Fair 'Le Restaurant Francais' (Champagne), 1940 Russian bar with its engraved bar and

with its engraved bar and display of beautiful meats

made some changes and today have a comfortable eating house  and surely a suggestion of good sea food with the open kitchen and charcoal broiler

preparing to dive with two other hands and holding his nose with a fifth

This imaginative children's menu made eating bananas fun

1865: "A Specimen Bear: Among the mass of fat things going to make up the splendid show of eatables —fish

New York World's Fair 'Le Restaurant Francais' (Champagne), 1940 Russian bar with its engraved bar andCreated by the Syndicat des Restauranteurs which included the Caf de Paris, Drouant, Fouquet's, Hotel Meurice, Pavillon Royal, Armenonville, Pr Catalan, and the French Line, Le Restaurant Franais in the French Pavilion was the most renowned of the 112 restaurants at the 1939 40 World's Fair in New York. The cuisine, service, and dcor in the 350 seat, glass walled dining room, made an astounding impression on the American public. It was run by