The Blue Room, The Roosevelt Hotel, New Orleans, 1952 Knife and Fork and clearly everyone was having

and clearly everyone was having a very good time

established The Port Arthur Restaurant on New York's Mott Street in 1897

only three members of the kitchen – out of 22 in total – were foreign

The illustrations were created by the celebrated artist and author Andrew Loomis

The bar was adjacent to the prestigious French restaurant La Vieille Porte

The Blue Room, The Roosevelt Hotel, New Orleans, 1952 Knife and Fork and clearly everyone was havingWe love this 1952 menu cover of the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans for its wonderful image. What's going on behind those illuminated windows, we wonder, and look at the stylish automobiles lined up on the street. The building isn't actually blue, of course, it's the clever way the artist brought attention to The Blue Room, once one of the most famous supper clubs in America. Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra were among the list of