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Vintage 1986 Cafe Royal Palace Hotel Philadelphia Dinner Menu Trusthouse Forte
Previously owned original 1986 Café Royal Palace Hotel Philadelphia dinner menu produced for a Trusthouse Forte chefs assemblage, showing light age-related handling and storage wear. Metallic copper-brown textured card stock covers display slight surface rubbing, a few small handling marks, a faint spot on the back panel, and gently softened corner tips but no tears, writing, or heavy creases, while the interior cream pages with calligraphic text, floral decorations, and wine and menu listings remain clean, sharply printed, and fully legible with the silver cord binding intact. Offered as a single multi-panel cord-tied menu program without an envelope or additional inserts.
Original vintage printed dinner menu produced in the United States for Café Royal at the Palace Hotel, Philadelphia, created for an assemblage of chefs from Trusthouse Forte luxury hotels of North America and dated lundi le 17 fevrier 1986.
The tall metallic copper-brown textured card stock cover is framed by a fine silver border, centered with an embossed crowned N monogram crest above the flowing script title Café Royal printed in metallic ink.
Opening to the first interior spread, a heading Café Royal introduces the legend Assemblage des Chefs des Cuisines des Hotels Exclusifs de Trusthouse Forte d\'Amérique Nord over the name M. Henri Manassero, President, followed by a roster of chefs including Patrice Boely, Daniel Boulud, Peter Oldfield, Roland Sahuc, and Peter Schaffrath alongside their affiliated properties The Polo at the Westbury Hotel New York, La Régence at the Plaza Athénée New York, Charro\'s at the King Edward Hotel Toronto, and Café Royal locations at the Palace Hotel Philadelphia and Plaza of the Americas Dallas, accented by a small watercolor bouquet and the printed date lundi le 17 fevrier 1986.
Subsequent pages present an elegantly hand-lettered wine list featuring selections such as Billecart-Salmon Brut, Sancerre Clos du Roy 1984, Savigny Les Beaune 1983, Grands Échezeaux 1978, Gewurztraminer Hugel Vendange Tardive 1983, Château Prieuré-Lichine Margaux 1983, and a Niersteiner Pfaffenhappe Beerenauslese Ortega Rheinhessen 1983, each arranged in a single vertical column of calligraphic script.
The facing Le Menu panel lists the progression of courses under headings such as Les Canapés, La Soupe de grenouille cressonnière, L\'Homard au Sauterne et ses filaments des légumes, La Noisette de chevreuil aux airelles, Le Granité aux pommes et Calvados, La Terrine de foie gras et sa couronne de mâche, Les Fromages, Le Gratin des fruits des Antipodes, and Le Café, bordered along the edge with watercolor blossoms and foliage.
A closing panel headed Officers & Board of Directors of Bailliage de Philadelphie enumerates Russell Baum, Bailli, together with Norman Cohn, F. Tell Erhardt, Harold Epstein, B. David Gratz, James Batt, and Dorothy Long with their respective ceremonial titles, underscoring the connection to the Philadelphia gastronomic community.
An evocative piece of Café Royal, Trusthouse Forte, Palace Hotel Philadelphia, and mid-1980s fine dining ephemera suitable for framing, display, or addition to collections of restaurant menus and culinary memorabilia.
MSC198-186
