My dad wanted me to share another menu from around 1970 when he worked in The Gresham as a chef. Includes £1.70 for a 10oz Sirloin steak and 40p for an Irish coffee!
My dad wanted me to share another menu from around 1970 when he worked in The Gresham as a chef. Includes £1.70 for a 10oz Sirloin steak and 40p for an Irish coffee!
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Lot of veal on there, I wish veal was more available (and accepted) today, might reduce the amount of live calf exports at least. Don’t know why Irish people are so agin’ it, we think nothing of eating young chickens or lambs after all.
For reference, CPI inflation from January 1970 to now is 1380%. That means the Irish Coffee is equivalent to €7 in todays money (not accounting for decimilisation which took place in 1971 and would completely smash my calculations)
Another menu that was posted a few months ago went a little viral on here and Twitter and he loved seeing the reaction ☺️ If anyone here knows anybody that worked in The Gresham around that time I’m sure he’d be delighted to hear about them!
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Can I ask how much he made or what the roundabout salaries would have been anyway?
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Can’t get over the bit at the top right saying “the menu is only a guide”! Anyway I’d be happy with a seafood pancake then the orange duck but maybe I’d be best sticking with a nice bitta fish for my main. I bet food was tastier back then too.
40p for an Irish coffee sounds excessive if a steak only costs £1.70.
Turtle soup and smoked eels. Both protected now.
Folks at r/vintagemenus would definitely appreciate this
did he also share his payslip at thet time with you?
Interesting to understand how much a coffee was relative to his hourly pay.
I’d murder a steak now. Thanks. All I have in the house is bananas
Really interesting, thanks for sharing!
I’m not really familiar with 70’s Irish restaurant menus, but for god’s sake, why is everything written in French?
I’d like to say confidently that it’s all relative. But we all know it’s not.
Good to see green sauce being served with the seafood pancake.
I remember when Tom Dunne used to impersonate Bill Cullen on the Last word when Dunphy was still host he’d be going about having green sauce with his chips.
Yeah, but how much was the avocado toast?
Used to do door the odd time there in the mid 00’s. Food was pretty damn good
menu looks like a GAA match programme
Have seen a few things like this floating around my house too. Both my parents worked in the Hibernian hotel on Dawson Street, where the Hibernian Way is now.
Thanks for this my uncle was the head chef at the time and Im gonna send this on to him 🙂
Very cool! Do you folks deliver?
Do not lose this. So cool
interesting to see teal duck on the menu.
cheep
Tournedos Rossini for me please!