Custom Curation — 20 Menus (Mood Board + Files)

Best for a feature wall, a multi-room hospitality project, or a private collection start.

Tell us about your space; we pick the menus. Custom Curation is a hand-selected mood board of archival menu prints chosen for one specific room — a cocktail bar, a French bistro, a hotel lobby, a private dining room, a railroad-themed den, or a home gallery wall.

How it works

1. You pay. Add this to cart and check out. You’ll receive an order confirmation immediately.
2. We send an intake form. Within one business day we email you a short 5-question intake (space type, approximate wall dimensions, existing palette, era preference, anything to include or avoid). Reply with photos if you have them.
3. We curate. We hand-pick 20 menus from our archive and put them into a mood-board PDF with frame-size recommendations and a layout sketch.
4. You receive everything. We email you the mood-board PDF plus a private download link for each of the 20 curated menu archives — all three print sizes and both pure and museum versions, 300 DPI, no watermark.

Turnaround

5–7 business days from the time you return the intake form. Rush turnaround (2 business days) is available; email hello@themenupress.com if you need it.

For whom

Hospitality interior designers, restaurant and bar operators planning a fit-out, set designers and prop stylists working on period drama, hotel concept studios, and private collectors who would rather have someone with the archive in their hands choose the menus than scroll through 1,500 cards.

What’s included

• A custom mood-board PDF (4–6 pages) with the curated selection, brief notes on why each piece was chosen, frame-size recommendation, and a suggested wall layout
• Private download link for each of the 20 curated menu archives — three sizes × two versions (pure and museum) per menu, at 300 DPI
• Email support during selection in case you want to swap any menu

Refunds

If we cannot find 20 menus that match your brief from our archive, we will refund in full before delivery. Once the mood-board PDF and downloads are delivered, the order is final — see Refund Policy.

About the source

All menus are preserved in the Buttolph Collection of Menus at The New York Public Library and are in the public domain in the United States. The Menu Press has curated, digitally restored, and reformatted them for modern printing.