It’s an interesting artifact, and prep back then was probably standard/heavy-ish continental.
I’d have to go for stuff you can’t get today like terrapin but i’m guessing all or most of the seafood would be very good, not being over-fished yet and perhaps healthier. I’d ask for fish/seafood platter for apps. For the main, a game bird and/or the terrapin, hoping to split, plus salad and artichauts.
The questions I’d have is what pairs well together given the preparations (which is guess now) also the differences in game birds. I wonder if sharing was weird or a no-no back then in a place like the Plaza but that’s what I would do. I doubt they’d balk at a seafood platter app.
It’s amazing to read only menus like that. Did people really know all of this stuff? Red-headed duck vs ruddy duck vs canvas-back duck?!? And what in the actual **** is a woodcock? (Dare I google such a thing???)
These are current and typical Canadian prices at midrange restaurant with table service. I have been paying around $25 CAD ($18 USD) for a burger and fries at most restaurants and pubs for 3 years now.
Some burger and fries at nicer pubs are costing as much as $32 CAD ($23 USD).
Chicken or shrimp can be added to the Caesar salad, for $7 CAD, to make it a main.
The Chicken Caesar would cost $23 CAD, which is the price I have been paying for Cobb Salads and Greek Village Salads with chicken added, in Toronto pubs and family restaurants.
I don’t order too many Caesar salads. When I do, I usually order them as an appetizer without any chicken added.
The Carbonara costs $29 CAD at this pretty nice restaurant in London, Ontario. The seafood pasta with cream sauce was what 3 people at the table ordered. It was slightly cheaper than the seafood pasta being served elsewhere around town, which often costs between $36 CAD and $40 in London, Ontario.
I paid $46 CAD for a seafood pasta in Toronto in Feb 2024, which had been the most expensive pasta I had ordered in Canada at that point!
Carbonara runs somewhere between $20 ($14.50 USD) and $30 Canadian ($21.75 USD) in at most restaurants I visit.
Here is what I ordered, the $29 CAD pasta with lemon and ricotta.
