Menu du Banquet Dunlop Post Card Early 1900s The Scene PICADILLY COCKTAIL RECIPE

PICADILLY COCKTAIL RECIPE

It had an on-duty diet expert to help customers with their food choices

has been written by Tom Austin and Ron Kase

named after the area in which it was served

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Menu du Banquet Dunlop Post Card Early 1900s The Scene PICADILLY COCKTAIL RECIPEThis marvellous etching dated around the 1890s to early 1900s is entitled The Original Menu of Banquet Dunlop and is set in a French bar. A lavishly moustachioed barman is serving a bottle of champagne to two men. The finely clothed French gentleman on the right asks his companion, sitting on a bar stool: Well, dont you drink any more? His companion a wrinkled old Michelin Man in a casual raincoat and hat replies: No thanks. Its too dry. It tastes