Brass Rail, Brooklyn 1942 Sizes:50x76cm (20x30 inch) Archival Print (Unframed) wine and even an old

wine and even an old bottle of port using a bottle-opener as a walking stick – making their merry way towards a jolly man with a large napkin around his neck and whose knife and fork is held aloft in anticipation

the legendary American composer Cole Porter who wrote such masterpieces as I Get A Kick Out of You and Night and Day regularly travelled over from his home on the Left Bank in Paris to meet friends here

Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey played there and the New York Observer noted that in the building's heyday

Careme was the inventor of “mother sauces” that were used in different dishes and of pastries such as mille-feuille

a cinderella stamp is "virtually anything resembling a postage stamp

Brass Rail, Brooklyn 1942 Sizes:50x76cm (20x30 inch) Archival Print (Unframed) wine and even an oldThere were two Brass Rail restaurants in New York City one in Manhattan and the other in Brooklyn. This charming illustration is from the back of the restaurants drinks list, dated 1942. It shows the two locations separated by the East river and reachable by the Brooklyn Bridge. The Brass Rail covered an entire city block in Manhattan and spanned five floors. There was a restaurant where huge sides of meat were roasted on open fires, a caf with a full