Seattle Room Menu Collection
Preview up to 100 items from this collection below. This collection contains of hundreds of menus collected over several decades, each revealing the food tastes of Seattle diners and prices paid for fine and casual dining around town.
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Clark's Northgate Menu
Part of the Clark's restaurant chain, founded by Walter Clark, with 22 restaurants all across Seattle, Portland, Tacoma and Yakima. Opened in the early 1950's. Clark sold the chain to Campbell Soup Company in 1970. The family eventually bought back their favorite, The Red Carpet, and renamed it "Gene's Red Carpet Restaurant."
Identifier: spl_menu_00184
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Blue Max Steak House Menu
Located right by Boeing Field, the Blue Max, an aeronautically themed restaurant, was part of the Red Baron Steakhouse chain in California. It held lip-sync contests every Saturday night from 1979 until it closed in 1988.
Identifier: spl_menu_00065
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Chut Sing Bakery Menu
Opened in 1977 by four non-Chinese women - Leslee Engler, Pattie Rudiger, Cherie Furtado, and Cheryl Tyler - who met in Tai Chi class, this bakery served Chinese pastries. The owners taught themselves to make their baked goods from cookbooks and trial-and-error.
Identifier: spl_menu_00170
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How Seattle Changed Its Face, 1975
A brief summary of the history of regrading projects in Seattle, written by the City Engineering Department.
Identifier: spl_saw_2085906
Date: 1975
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Bruno's Menu
Open since 1975, Bruno's serves Mexican and Italian food as two separate parts of its menu, rather than trying to combine the two cuisines.
Identifier: spl_menu_00090
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