1906 USA postcard menu for Cafe Lafayette NYC

Nice Art Nouveau postcard with Café Lafayette’s menu for Sunday Dinner, November 25^th 1906.

Cost of dinner is $1.25, from 5 to 9 o’clock. 25c extra for each Dinner taken without wine

Some items from menu:

•  Blue Point Oysters
• Marie Louise soup
• Spanish Mackerel
•  Spaghetti a l’Italienne
• Truffled pate of chicken
• Gaufrette Lafayette
• Café Diabolique 40c

Printed in France 'PHOTOCHROM - LYON'

Crease UR corner, small in spot. Small chips right side.

Café Lafayette was located on University Place and 9th Street in New York’s Greenwich Village and was part of the 65-room Hotel Lafayette, established in 1902.

Both places were named after the French aristocrat and military officer General Lafayette who fought in the American Revolutionary War. The hotel was described by the American journalist, poet and communist activist John Reed (1887- 1920) as ‘the cradle of the city’s artistic life.’

Undiscovered musicians, writers, artists and actors living the Bohemian lifestyle (like their counterparts in Paris and other big cities, Bohemians opposed mainstream cultural values and determined to live unorthodox lifestyles) would while away their days in the cheaper café.

Wealthy New Yorkers, meanwhile, dined in the restaurant at the back of the hotel.

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