London Vintage Menus

Belle Époque London — Savoy Hotel, society banquets, Royal academies, 1891–1907

London at the turn of the century was the social capital of the British Empire. The Savoy Hotel (1889), under Auguste Escoffier’s kitchen, set the international standard. The Carlton, the Cecil and the Marlborough House hosted royal receptions and society dinners. Trade-association banquets, royal academy dinners, regimental reunions and learned-society gatherings all left behind elaborately printed menu cards.

A focused but distinctive sub-archive of British Edwardian elegance.

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