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A Closer Look: Delmonico’s Gilded Age Dining | Cultured Elegance
In this video, we will explore Delmonico’s beginning with the history, then the delicious dishes and ending with a closer look inside the lavish interiors. Delmonico’s changed American dining forever and brought class, sophistication and French cuisine to the forefront of gilded age New York high society
Together let’s travel back in time as we learn about Delmonico’s and uncover its tragic fate.
Oscar Tucci purchased the 56 Beaver Street restaurant in *1926* where he created a Speakeasy in the lower level.
Location: Manhattan, New York
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@CulturedElegance Год назад

THANK YOU FOR WATCHING! NEXT: Millionaires Row in Manhattan Then and Now ➡ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-V3cZvQfMdOw.html

@guidedmeditation2396 Год назад

It is interesting to think that much of the early days of Delmonico's took place several decades before the days of the wild west which are considered to be from about 1860 to 1900. When you think of all those dusty wild west movies you have seen and the way people lived yet in NYC they were living it up like they were at Versailles.

@johnmaxwell4072 Год назад

I started my 49 year long restaurant career at Antoine’s, in New Orleans. It is currently the oldest restaurant in the United States operated under the same family. Opened in 1840, it is now run by the 7th generation. Dishes invented there are Oysters Rockefeller, Pompano en Papilliote, and their famous Soufflé Potatoes. To be a waiter there originally, a person needed to serve a 10 year apprenticeship as an assistant waiter. By the turn me I worked there, it was down to 5 years, but I did it in 3. It was not uncommon for servers and cooks to work there 50 years or more. The menu, when I began had 181 items, entirely in French, with no explanations. We were required to know every dish, the main ingredients and cooking style for preparation. We were rigorously tested. The menu had not changed in over 100 years. The original restaurant was in a mirrored room, near the street, but as it became more popular, it spread through 3 adjoining buildings, encompassing 15 dining rooms seating 1100 people. In 1968 when I started, there were 40 waiters, 40 apprentices, and about 40-50 in the kitchen, 6 days a week, lunch and dinner, closed Sundays. Serving was a “turn” system, not stations, so you literally could have 4-5 tables almost 100 yards apart in 4-5 different dining rooms, at once. No computers or order pads. All verbal. Once getting the order you went to the kitchen and screamed it out until a cook acknowledged you. It was organized chaos, and it was amazing. I learned so much there I was able to go on and manage so of the top private clubs in NYC, DC, SF, returning home to open a jazz dinner theatre with my family.

@CulturedElegance Год назад

Thank you for this amazing comment!!! I was fascinated learning about Antoine’s from your writing! - and an excellent writer you are! What an amazing career you have had! How proud you must be and what an amazing story to tell! Welcome to the channel!! And let me know what other videos you’d like to see!

@samanthab1923 Год назад

Filmed some scenes for JFK there.

@johnmaxwell4072 Год назад

@@CulturedElegance and thank you my friend for the outstanding delmonico story. We had a delmonicos steak house in New Orleans….guess it opened in the 1920’s -30’s….huge mansion on st Charles Ave….closed in the 80’s….stayed vacant….then emiril dumped a few million in a remodel…..stayed open till Covid I think…building is for sale now

@stardresser1 Год назад

Antoines. Yes! Have visited NOLA many times and that is a favorite. What a career you've had, congratulations!

@johnmaxwell4072 Год назад

@@samanthab1923 Yes they did. When they are seated in they large dining room ( The Annex), the Guy seating them was Henri Alciatore, one of Antoine Alciatore’s great-great-great grandchildren. He ran the floor at night. Look again and you might see his huge handlebar mustache. He was very proud of that.

@michaelplanchunas3693 Год назад

In the movie "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon", a young officer nearing the end of his obligation, stated he was looking forward to dining at Delmonico's when he got out. First time I had heard of Delmonico's.

@paulakpacente Год назад

I was definitely born in the wrong time. I've been a gourmet cook for 57 years and owned a restaurant for 15 years. I'd would have liked to try most everything on the menu except anything with maraschino cherries or apples. Thanks for sharing!

@CulturedElegance Год назад

Wow how incredible! Thank you so much!

@FerretKibble Год назад

I definitely would try that dandelion salad if I could. And seeing the variety in available roast bird!

@paulakpacente Год назад

@@FerretKibble- I've seen dandelion flowers coated with seasoned flower and fried. I might try that as we ALWAYS have them in our yard.

@betseyr.9081 Год назад

Still remember my uncle taking us to the original Delmonico’s a very long time ago, it was fantastic.

@CulturedElegance Год назад

What a great memory!!

@blktauna Год назад

Delmonicos is a great place for a meal. I've eaten there a few times and the steaks are delicious. The drinks are good as well. Very old-school and very fun.

@CulturedElegance Год назад

How wonderful!! Wish they would reopen!

@oriel9347 Год назад

Ugh😕

@lynnhoffman247 Год назад

My dad took us once when we lived in Garden City during the early 70’s. It was delicious and a great experience!

@dianecostanza Год назад

In the movie Hello Dolly, I always assumed the The Harmonia Gardens was supposed to be Delmonico’s, or one of its competitors.

@TruthSayer2007 Год назад

Me too!! I was just thinking that.

@StevenTorrey Год назад

I thought the same thing and was just about to post a question about it. Glad I read your post first.

@hop208 Год назад

They mention Delmonico's by name in the song "Put on Your Sunday Clothes". The lyric goes: We'll see the shows at Delmonico's And we'll close the town in a whirl And we won't come home until we've kissed a girl!

@StevenTorrey Год назад

@@hop208 Thanks for the memory jog; as often as I've watched the video, it is one of my favorites, it is easy to miss details like that.

@michaelpalmieri7335 Год назад

@@hop208 I've seen that movie, which starred Barbra Streisand (one of my favorites) and Walter Matthau. I used to have a record album of the soundtrack, as well as that of the original Broadway musical with Carol Channing.

@theheartoftexas Год назад

I wonder if you could do a deeper dive into the menus, and how they changed over the years. Maybe show us the changing tastes of America. Maybe every 10 years or so?

@CulturedElegance Год назад

That is an incredible idea!!! Love it!! Thank you

@mrmaxtucci Год назад

Rear The Delmonico Way: Sublime Entertaining & Legendary Recipes from the Restaurant that Made New York! It's a wealth of accurate information of Delmonico’s !

@Nunofurdambiznez Год назад

I had to stop at each menu and just take in all that delicious-looking food!!!! WOW - incredible stuff!

@CulturedElegance Год назад

So glad you liked it!!!❤️⭐️

@disneyfamily5158 Год назад

I ate here for lunch all the time when I worked in the city....phenomenal food!

@CulturedElegance Год назад

That is fantastic!

@csm92459 Год назад

In the book "Life with Father" Clarence Day recounts going to his father's office for the day and eating lunch with him at Delmonico's. If I remember correctly the author mentions his father particularly likes French food and confers with the waiter and orders in French. The time period would have been the 1880s. The book is amusing, if you read it with an understanding that it was a different time and culture, and parenting was different.

@samanthab1923 Год назад

In the movie he takes the aunt & Elizabeth Taylor out to Delmonico’s for dinner & Clarence asks to come along.

@djdissi Год назад

Funny I should fall upon your recently posted mention of that novel... I was just thinking the other day about the copy we had at the house I grew up in, purchased before I was born, and decided to watch the film on YT last night!

@dbyers3897 Год назад

@@djdissi EGAD! It took you how many years to see the movie? William Powell is hilarious. Liz Taylor & Irene Dunne as well.

@anitarobinson1143 Год назад

Love this book. He mentions summing Lorenzo to correct meal.

@anilori262 Год назад

Thank You! Those were the days

@larrydemonte2218 Год назад

I worked 4 blocks away from this building,,in 1974,,,was unique to pass it everyday

@CulturedElegance Год назад

How interesting

@l.a.q.hanley5852 8 месяцев назад

The meals appearing on the menus were all fresh, seasonal and top tier. All of them look wonderful.

@CulturedElegance 8 месяцев назад

Indeed!!

@debbystardust Год назад

I first read about Delmonico’s in Horatio Alger novels, Ragged Dick and Mark the Match Boy (found in my favorite childhood used bookstore.) If the poor boys would only save their nickels by visiting a bank, stop smoking and committing petty crimes, then they might be able to afford Delmonico’s steak for $1. A Hazard of New Fortunes by William Dean Howells also mentions Delmonico’s and has famous chapters about New York City life such as an entire “house hunting” chapter. The March family in the book also eat at various restaurants as Mr. March starts his magazine, Every Other Week. In one section, Mr. March remembers his honeymoon and marvels that Broadway now has less traffic because “horses are not allowed on the street.” They also travel by train and it sounds lovely with leather seats and dining.

@johnmaxwell4072 Год назад

The walls in Antoine’s are covered ( most rooms anyway) with framed pictures and drawings of famous folks who are there over the years ( kind of like Sardi’s does in NYC. Though I valued my local clientele the most, I also served many celebrities, I guess the most famous was Pope John Paul when he visited New Orleans in ‘84, which was also my last year there.

@jeanberard2078 Год назад

My husband and I went to delmonicos often in n the 1970-80’s when we visited NYC. Always enjoyed dining there. Haven’t been in quite some time!

@marypatten9655 Год назад

Loved this. We are loosing so much of our cultural dining elegance with the fast foods these days Thank you for sharing God bless

@jonathanlander3631 Год назад

What style! Just the floral centerpieces alone are absolutely incredible!

@CulturedElegance Год назад

I completely agree!!

@jeffreypogash6121 Год назад

An excellent bio of an iconic family and institution. Thank you for keeping their achievements and memory alive !❤

@CulturedElegance Год назад

Thank you Jeffery!! Your comments means a great deal! Thank you for appreciating my work!

@jeffreypogash6121 Год назад

@@CulturedElegance I have been collecting DELMONICO menus ( 19th century ) for quite some time. A number of years ago, while researching the restaurant and its history, I learned that Charles Delmonico died tragically, about 1, 000 feet from my house. He was attempting to walk from the train station to the home of his friend and customer, General George McClellan, who served in the Civil War under President Abraham Lincoln.

@MadameX_ Год назад

Fab! Thx. I love Old New York history. It’s endlessly fascinating. When I lived there, I walked around envisioning myself in the gilded age.

@CulturedElegance Год назад

Thank you!! Welcome to the channel!! How marvelous!! I know I would do the same!

@French-Kiss24 Год назад

I hadn’t realized they changed the American dining experience. As a former New Yorker, I have never eaten there. I’ll go on my next trip.

@sexydirrtymoney Год назад

Never heard of this before.....thanks for sharing! I'm really fascinated about the lives of people during the gilded age.

@CulturedElegance Год назад

Happy to inform and educate!! Of course!! Then this is the channel for you!!

@jenny-pm8tl Год назад

The menus were crazy. With so many options, I wonder how the restaurant would have stored it all. 🤷🏻‍♀️

@Laura-zy5jp Год назад

So lovely and elegant a time. The Gilded age and all of its splendour . The mansions, the lovely clothes all of its elegance is nice to see and understand more about about!!Truly fascinating and lovely. Thank you for these beautiful and insightful lessons in Cultured Elegance. Aptly named😊💯❤️💐🇨🇦🇨🇦

@karenryder6317 Год назад

Was the original restaurant located in the flat-iron building? It has that same wedge shape but I think the flat-iron had more stories.

@CulturedElegance Год назад

Thank you so so much!! Welcome to the channel!!♥💕😊

@Laura-zy5jp Год назад

It does look like the Flatiron building. Delmonico’s had more than one location and owner changes over its years. But it sure looks like the Flatiron Building in New York. I’m from Canada born and raised. A bit of an old gal now but the guilted age was really elegant Z. All those millionaires and their huge mansions in New York and at Newport. So beautiful. Times were something then. The Astors, The Vanderbilt a, The Rockefeller’s all New York City society’s wealthy strolling down 5th Avenue. 😊👌💯🇨🇦🇨🇦

@shannahlambertjalamah1415 Год назад

I Love my Life during the 90's when I was a young brazilian and lived in NYC at the Delmonico's Hotel, located on the corner of Park Ave. and 59th street. All the wealthy high-society brazilians during the earlier 90's stayed in Delmonico's Hotel. I loved the location in Upper East Side at the 502 Park Ave. . Since 2001 the Delmonico's Hotel NYC was sold to Mr. Trump. Gold remenbrances of my fortunate youth !😘😍😘

@monkeygraborange Год назад

Amazing that there was almost nothing on the menu over a dollar. Ahhh... the good old days!

@CulturedElegance Год назад

Haha exactly!!

@annamarichev8969 Год назад

Imagine your salary: $400-$500 yearly in 19ing century. You could not afford a cup of tea in that restaurant if you were just an urban worker.

@purpurina5663 Год назад

$1 of 1850 equals $38 today

@ColleenDaumen2 Год назад

Thank you for posting this.... Soooo interesting!!! I recall the film Life with Father and Elizabeth Taylor being so excited to go to Delmonico's ❤❤❤

@CulturedElegance Год назад

Thank you so much Colleen!! Welcome to the channel! I will have to see that movie!! I have heard of it!💖💖❤️

@ColleenDaumen2 Год назад

@@CulturedElegance oh yes, it's a wonderful old film... You can find it on ytube in color 🥰

@djdissi Год назад

Just watched it last night for the second time!

@ColleenDaumen2 Год назад

@@djdissi haha... Yes, I always watch it at Christmas also, such a great family film 💞

@Miss_Camel Год назад

“The Pie Hole” from “Pushing daisies” is what I immediately thought of when I saw the corner restaurant building.

@junedizer827 Год назад

Such an interesting topic. I did wish for a glance at the interior of the modern Delmonico’s.

@willardroad Год назад

Looking at the Roast Beef on the menu, I used an inflation calculator and found out that the 60 cent price in 1899 would mean $21.82 today... actually not an unreasonable price for roast beef at a fancy restaurant. I was like SIXTY CENTS? YEAH! until I did the math.

@jillkoop5682 Год назад

Awesome video! More like this, please!!!

@anitaevans5361 Год назад

If I recall correctly, Delmonico's made the 1st Baked Alaska after Alaska was purchased from Russia. It is not easy to find a Baked Alaska anymore, but ice cream cakes r still popular today.

@CulturedElegance Год назад

Some sources say they did not invent baked Alaska

@jasonjenkins7825 Год назад

American Gilded Age novelist Henry James writes in one of his books about some of his high-society characters having brunch at Delmonico's in the 1860s.

@CulturedElegance Год назад

Indeed!! Love Henry James

@patrickmoriarty7273 Год назад

The number of menu items is mind blowing

@CulturedElegance Год назад

Right!!!

@LJB103 Год назад

I've always wished that I could have attended one of these multi-course dinners of the era (must admit that my preference probably tends towards one prepared by Auguste Escoffier). The closest that I have come was during a crossing on board the SS France - great food, but not quite the elegance of the Gilded Age. Excellent and informative video.

@sarahannsmith3129 Год назад

Yes, that would be awesome!

@CulturedElegance Год назад

Me too!! How lovely!! What did you eat? And thank you so much!

@LJB103 Год назад

@@CulturedElegance Breakfast was buffet. Every lunch and dinner was: appetizer; soup course; egg course; fish course (duck once); roast course; salad; dessert; cheese and fruit plus a bottle of wine with each meal. Only time I've ever eaten Chateaubriand and then had the waiter ask "Want another one?" "YES"

@CulturedElegance Год назад

@@LJB103 Wow how splendid! haha yes indeed!!

@charlescrawford7039 Год назад

I crossed the Atlantic on the SS France twice. I remember the same experience.

@misshelena6930 Год назад

Really well done, really enjoyable video. Thank you for the hard work.

@CulturedElegance Год назад

Thank you so much Miss. Helena!! So glad you enjoyed!! Thank you for appreciating my work! What videos would you like to see next?

@misshelena6930 Год назад

@@CulturedElegance Anything Gilded Age, Victorian Era, old money NYC and where they dined, vacationed and played..

@joemontano71 Год назад

@@misshelena6930 I second that !!

@bwb5f5 Год назад

Wonderful video about a time and place I find very fascinating. Thanks!

@CulturedElegance Год назад

So glad you enjoyed!!⚜️✨

@Teeveepicksures Год назад

The Alienist book (NOT the show) has several amazingly detailed descriptions of these gilded age steakhouses.

@DavidLLambertmobile Год назад

I read The Alienist. 🔍 I thought actor Harrison Ford would have been great in the lead Dr role. 2005-2015 or so.

@Teeveepicksures Год назад

@@DavidLLambertmobile Great idea.

@jaykqwanlevy4746 Год назад

I love this NYC elite discoverie of class classic style wealthy dining environments living with prestigious lavi😢European American 🇺🇸 classic living and dining it changes my daily outlook on life here where it all took place decades ago in the French Dutch Bronx, NYC USA 🇺🇸 thank you for this wonderful classic classy beautiful illustrations. I pattern my lifestyle and home according

@catherinelee3298 Год назад

Enjoyed this very much. So historical. Got hungry looking at all that good food.

@CulturedElegance Год назад

Thank you!! Welcome to the channel!! It does look appetizing!!

@charlescrawford7039 Год назад

Some claim Eggs Benidict first appeared on the menu in the Waldorf. Still, it is an American culinary classic. Great with champagne.

@ravisriram6746 Год назад

I used to work on Beaver Street, not far from the now-shuttered Delmonico's. I understand there was a recent attempt at "re-opening" the restaurant by parties fraudulently representing themselves as the owners, but were fortunately prevented from doing so by the actual owners who hope to reopen the place soon.

@CulturedElegance Год назад

Yes I do hope they re-open soon! And how fascinating to have worked on Beaver street!

@CulturedElegance Год назад

THANK YOU FOR WATCHING! Next: The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel ➡ ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qwNcrgxT6M0.html

@MegaToti26 Год назад

GREAT video! Lots of thanks!

@CulturedElegance Год назад

Thank you!!

@sandragruhle6288 9 месяцев назад

I have been to Antoine’s, and it is most pleasantly memorable.👏🏻👏🏻

@Imperatore1 Год назад

Fabulous!

@CulturedElegance Год назад

Thank you!! Wasn’t it!!

@mrmaxtucci Год назад

A wonderful video on the Delmonico family, however once you get to the Tucci era, there are inaccuracies, especially on dates. I've spent the last 17 years writing a book about Delmonico’s and my family’s era. My grandfather purchased the restaurant in 1926, and created a Speakeasy in the lower level of the 56 Beaver Street location. By 1933 after the repealing of Prohibition my grandfather had a thriving restaurant. By the 1950s we served over 1000 lunched a day. For more of the accurate story of Delmonico's, read my book titled- The Delmonico Way: Sublime Entertaining & Legendary Recipes from the Restaurant that Made New York! Published by Rizzoli.

@CulturedElegance Год назад

Max Tucci, thank you so much!! What an honor you are doing for your family!! I would be proud to put the link to your book in the description of this video. I apologize for the inaccuracies. The many sources I looked at must have been trying their best but didn't have all the right information. I will try to edit the video to include the 1926 year and if I'm unable to I'll make a note in the description!

@rollinwithunclepete824 Год назад

The prices! Just incredible. Thank you for the video.

@mariemorgan7759 Год назад

Really interesting history, love the art work! Just subscribed!💕

@CulturedElegance Год назад

Thank you Marie!! Welcome to the channel!! 💓⚜️

@mariemorgan7759 Год назад

@@CulturedElegance You are very welcomed! 🙏

@vinny160 Год назад

Brilliant to include the menus. As a lover of culinary history and cooking ...it was thrilling to pursue the offerings. Hmm...giving me some ideas for my next home kitchen adventure. Just last week, I discovered Ranhofer's recipe for Hamburg Steak while researching the history of the thrifty hamburger steak that became a staple of 1950's home cooking.

@guldenaydin9918 11 месяцев назад

Dūnya geçmişte çok daha "nezih" bir yaşam kalitesine ve klasına sahipmiş... Thank you so much. Esenkalınız..

@CulturedElegance 11 месяцев назад

Thank you for your kind comment!!

@guldenaydin9918 11 месяцев назад

@@CulturedElegance 🌺

@uncleremus64 Год назад

This is great! Thank you.

@CulturedElegance Год назад

Thank you!

@tiffanycurtis4794 Год назад

THAT THUMBNAIL IS ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL ❤️

@CulturedElegance Год назад

Thank you Tiffany!! Welcome to the channel!!

@jamesuthmann940 Год назад

In the lower right corner of the menu at 7:31 it lists "Alligator pear 75" -- what today would be called Avocado.

@CulturedElegance Год назад

Woow!! That is amazing to know! And honestly a funny and clever name!!

@LMays-cu2hp Год назад

Thank you for sharing.

@CulturedElegance Год назад

Thank you for your wonderful comment! Welcome to the Channel!

@LMays-cu2hp Год назад

@@CulturedElegance You are welcome. Continue to enjoy looking at great places like this there.

@tanyahwilliams1615 Год назад

You have inspired me to do my own history videos! I love this video.

@CulturedElegance Год назад

Oh my goodness!! You should!!! I’m so glad🥰🙏

@mellow-jello Год назад

A diner in Toronto, Canada, serves Delmonico's steaks at very affordable prices. Hope to visit it soon, glad to see it kicking around after Lockdown from last few years.

@kennethwayne6857 Год назад

I'm pretty sure the restaurant in "Hello, Dolly!" is based upon this. In any case, that's how I first learned about it.

@mrmaxtucci Год назад

Put on your Sunday clothes... is the song from Hello Dolly that mentions Delmonico’s, you would love my cookbook, The Delmonico Way: Sublime Entertaining and Legendary Recipes from the Restaurant that Made New York! Published in Nov. 2022

@aprilnelson9044 Год назад

This was delightful!

@CulturedElegance Год назад

Thank you! Welcome to the channel

@SimonFurber Год назад

Excellent work.

@CulturedElegance Год назад

Thank you so much!!

@davidranasinghe8093 2 месяца назад

Such a nice video ❤

@mrs.g.9816 Год назад

I thought Delmonico's went out of business! I know of other NYC restaurants that went out of business a few decades ago, such as Lüchow's, a German restaurant at 110 14th Street. Back in the 1960's, My dad used to tell me about the restaurant, which he loved to visit with friends in the 1940's before he married, and, as I shared my dad's love of German cuisine, I always wished I could go. It shut down and it's building was demolished in the early 1980's.

@MadameX_ Год назад

Luchow’s was still standing on 14th street when I moved to 13th street in 1994. It was demolished in 1995 and NYU bought the large lot it was in to build more dorms. I loved looking at that old building when I walked to the subway. I still remember the radio ads for Luchow’s as a kid.

@fabrisseterbrugghe8567 Год назад

I wish more places still had Turkish coffee as an option. Or called avocados alligator pears.

@CulturedElegance Год назад

No kidding!!⚜️✨🤩

@deirdre108 Год назад

Love the Turkish coffee--jet fuel!

@davidkulmaczewski4911 Год назад

Very interesting to see the prices on the menus. Most items seem to be under one dollar. And the relative prices are very different from today.... on several, filet mignon is less expensive than roast chicken, and the price of vegetables seem high compared to many entrees (cauliflower, asparagus, and even *cabbage* is 60 cents, versus lamb or venison entrees at only one dollar, and even filet mignon only $1.50).

@thetillerwiller4696 Год назад

You could buy an animal and slaughter it for fresh meat everyday, but getting fresh vegetables out of season before refrigeration and other modern food services was very hard

@joycemiller-bean1814 Год назад

You did a fine job of acquainting us with the history, interiors and culinary masters who were responsible for this noted restaurant. I only wish you had allowed a few more seconds for us to view the menus; I’m afraid you flipped through them so fast, it was difficult to get a sense of what was being offered. Aside from that small point, I thoroughly enjoyed the video and learned from it.

@CulturedElegance Год назад

Thank you so very much! I’m so glad you enjoyed!! I greatly appreciate your feedback!! I will make changes in the future!! My thought was that people could pause the video- but I like your point better!!

@CFinch360 Год назад

That's what the pause button is for LOL

@joycemiller-bean1814 Год назад

@@CFinch360 Thanks, Finch. Good of you to remind me. Your thoughtfulness gives me pause.😉

@Meekznhd Год назад

I miss this place it was my fav steakhouse in the city. Glad I was able to go there a few times and once for my bday. I hope they do re open

@pagen5219 Год назад

I just looked up green turtle soup,, rich people are nuts,

@riverarivera1092 Год назад

I’m glad I have discovered your Chanel, can you talk about how these high societies hosted parties

@secpac58chichi Год назад

Thank you for this - one interesting thing about the menu it appears that decades go by with virtually no change in prices - unless I was seeing things - now if you look at a menu from 2019 to today it is not uncommon to find prices doubling or more - sad state of affairs

@CulturedElegance Год назад

Thank you!! Excellent point!!!

@singularseeker Год назад

Yummy...

@knitterscheidt Год назад

These huge New York restaurants were very popular. I wonder if this was the restaurant scene in "Hello Dolly"?

@afihaileywibowo1095 Год назад

Thank you for this beautiful video. I am now learning the Gilded Age eras thanks to your channel. Was it the era of The Age of Innonce novel? Also, somehow in my mind, Delmonico will always be the restaurant where Ross of Friends got stood up in season 8 or 9😂❤

@CulturedElegance Год назад

You are wonderful! I so appreciate your kind words!! Welcome to the channel!! Yes the gilded age time was during the age of innocence novel!- the novel takes place from the start at 1873. Also it is my favorite movie!! The gilded age was roughly 1870s-1910s but some define it differently depending on what they are categorizing. Haha love that! Funny show! 💓💖❤️

@mattheweburns Год назад

you should do a video on the Crystal beer parlor of Savannah, Georgia

@farmyardflavours Год назад

Fascinating. I subscribed

@CulturedElegance Год назад

Thank you!! Welcome to the channel!🙏⚜️

@farmyardflavours Год назад

@@CulturedElegance I watched one other video about The Astors. Excellent. Thank you for your work. I'll watch more now that i've found your channel 😃

@CulturedElegance Год назад

Thank you, it means so much!!

@sylvia810 Год назад

I like the menu's 🎉

@kristybollan3872 Год назад

I just subscribed. I love anything about the Gilded Age and this was a very entertaining and fun to watch video. I have one suggestion: how about using background music that goes with the era? The jazzy modern day background music did not go with the lovely scenes & era in this video. Just a suggestion!

@CulturedElegance Год назад

Thank you so much Kristy! It is definitely a Challenge to find non copyright music and I will keep your thought in mind!!

@conflict7269 Год назад

I remember an old coke machine in town that had that style art on it who knows how old it was ive not seen one like it since had a whole scene painted on it like this

@1aranel 7 месяцев назад

I have wanted to dine there after seeing Life with Father, years ago…..someday…..

@joshlidowdie24 Год назад

I found the menu especially interesting. Mainly the prices, so you can understand inflation.

@cliff9653 Год назад

My wife's 2nd Great Grandfather was John Napoleon Longhi, who was Lorenzo Delmonico's 1st cousin, came with him to New York from Switzerland in 1831, and who ran the 22 Broad St. Delmonico location since its inception. We dug into the Longhi family's history (which is quite a story itself) but one thing missing was a photo of the 22 Broad St. location. I could find period photos of the other Delmonico locations, but not 22 Broad. I wondered if you had any luck (your photos of locations weren't labeled).

@CulturedElegance Год назад

That is incredible!! Thank you for sharing this wonderful history! Welcome to the channel!! Let me look and get back to you!!

@janwilliams1781 Год назад

Charles Delmonico lived in the town I work in, Morristown, NJ.

@minotaur818 8 месяцев назад

It's interesting to see how the 1899 menu showed that poultry/bird roasts are much more expensive than beef or lamb

@Hillbilly001 Год назад

Last I was in New York I had Delmonico. Excellent food, though a little pricey. Fortunately, someone else picked up the check. I'd rather had pizza from Lombardi's on Water St. Cheers

@dolorescraig8322 Год назад

Quick question. Can the 50dollar All You Can Eat menu be shared or must it be for one person? And can you take home what you don't finish?

@gregorymcdpachsa Год назад

I have a copy of the Epicurean . Several pictures from the book were featured in this video. It is all about menus and recipes from Delmonico's.

@CulturedElegance Год назад

Wow how amazing!!!

@HandattheHelm Год назад

Was dining at Delmonicos à la Carte (pick and choose your dishes, aka how modern restaurants work) or Table d'hôte (a set number of courses, and a small selection of options for each course)? If Table d'hôte, when did it change to a la Carte? If I remember correctly, most restaurants in the US and Europe were Table d'hôte until the turn of the century, when à la Carte dining took over in popularity.

@Robert-cy3qx Год назад

Hi! Amazing video! thank you so much!! those numbers on the menu cant be the prices, right? they are far too high for the 1800s so I am curious what they mean? thank you again!

@CulturedElegance Год назад

Thank you so much! So glad you enjoyed!! Most of the menu items are in cents!!

@user-sr9se8pd1d Год назад

Yikes! Turtle soup! I saw it quickly on one of the menus. Oh my goodness that makes me sad because I’ve had a pet turtle going on 20 years now, and I could never imagine him being in my soup! Have a blessed day Susan Williams wife

@CulturedElegance Год назад

I know right!! It was a very common dish in those days!! I used to have a turtle so I know how you feel!! What kind do you have? You have a blessed day too Susan!

@kenkahre9262 Год назад

I could have used a course on what those foods were on the menu. Fascinating, but obscure.

@CulturedElegance Год назад

Perhaps I’ll make another video on it!

@Surfcityham Год назад

I have a 1920 edition of The Epicurean by Charles Ranhofer, former Chef of Delmonico's. It claims to include "a Selection of Interesting Bills of Fair of Delmonico's from 1862 to 1894."

@CulturedElegance Год назад

Wow how fascinating!!!

@dorothymercer73 Год назад

I find the history fascinating! How on earth did they feed everyone at that huge table?! The kitchen or kitchens? Must have been massive. And no electricity back then. Oh my goodness. I think a lot of small towns had at least one Delmonico’s. I’m sure named after the one in New York. Thank you! Really enjoyed learning about the family owned business. Wow.

@michaelpalmieri7335 Год назад

I think they had gaslights back then to light up the restaurants, as well as gas ovens, if I'm not mistaken. However, I think that by the late 1890s, they started to install electricity in every home in the United States, as well as in every place of business, including restaurants. So, it's likely that they did the same thing with Delmonico's. You're probably right about every small town in America having a Delmonico's restaurant in the 1800s. I think they may have had them in the old west, because such places were mentioned in the radio and television versions of "Gunsmoke." For example, at the beginning of the radio episode called "Legal Revenge," the character of Miss Kitty tells Sam, the bartender at the Long Branch saloon, "I'm going out to Delmonico's for something to eat." I know that because I used to have a record album with that story on Side Two of it. (The one on Side One was entitled "Reena Decker.") Here's something else you probably didn't know. One of the Delmonico brothers was a volunteer firefighter. This would have been in the middle of the 19th Century, when fire engines were just small boxes on wheels that were usually dragged to fires by the firemen themselves. I know that because I read about it in a book entitled "The Romance Of Firefighting." (Bonanza Books, ©1956) A lot of famous Americans were volunteer firefighters, including George Washington, Paul Revere, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin (who founded Philadelphia's first volunteer fire department, called the Union Fire Company), Thomas Jefferson, etc. There's one thing I don't understand. The narrator said that the Delmonico brothers were born in Switzerland, but the name, Delmonico, doesn't sound Swiss to me. In fact, it sounds ITALIAN, LIKE MY LAST NAME! Am I missing something?

@deirdre108 Год назад

@@michaelpalmieri7335 Switzerland contains an Italian Canton.

@michaelpalmieri7335 Год назад

@@deirdre108 Gee, I never knew that. Thanks for the information.

@chickypooh73 Год назад

Delmonicos is on the show gunsmoke

@CulturedElegance Год назад

Love it!

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@loveoldmovies Год назад

Their prices were out of this world. Average earnings in the 1890's were 5 to 10 dollars a WEEK! Just a soup here could cost a day's wages for most people! A meal for two could easily total up to a week's average income. You had to be very wealthy to eat here.

@philpots48 Год назад

" 1964, Jerry Herman, “Put on Your Sunday Clothes”, Hello, Dolly!: We're gonna ride through town / In one of those new horsedrawn open cars / We'll see the shows at Delmonico's / And we'll close the town in a whirl"

@luannpafford3554 Год назад

My father took us to Bookbinders when I was very young many years ago! Sadly the only thing I can remember is how many beautiful women were at the restaurant.

@michaelhurley3171 Год назад

I'd go there because the Impractical Jokers did a few skits there!

@zahramokhtar6727 Год назад

Would you do a video about "Speakeasy".

@polemeros Год назад

The prices. On the 1917 menu, a chicken is 2.50. In 2023, that is close to $60.

@mm-yt8sf Год назад

were the prices without decimal points in units of cents? i noticed they had a price of 2.00 for chicken and cucumber salad as 50. (hm green corn as a vegetable dish? sounds interesting...i didn't think corn would be edible if green)

@CulturedElegance Год назад

I am uncertain!! Great points!!