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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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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Cascadia Menu
Opened in 1999 by chef Kerry Sear and his wife, Heidi Grathwol, this high-end, luxury restaurant served food inspired by the Pacific Northwest. Sear also introduced miniburgers years before the trend hit Seattle. Closed in 2008.
Identifier: spl_menu_00145
Date: 2006
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Juan de Fuca's Pillar
Parker McAllister, born in 1903 in Massachusetts, was a Seattle Times artist from 1924 to 1965. McAllister started his career as an illustrator at 14 for a Spokane publication; he joined the art staff at the Seattle Times in 1920. His first Sunday magazine cover was a poster-type illustration celebrating the University of Washington crew races in spring 1924. During McAllister's career, he created illustrations depicting “local color” events and situations now routinely handled by photographers. As the technology improved, he expanded his repertoire - he illustrated articles, drew covers for special sections and the weekly Seattle Sunday Times Magazine, and drew diagrams, comics, cartoons, and portraits for the Times’ editorial page. In 1956, an exhibition of his watercolor and oil paintings of Pacific Northwest scenes and historical incidents - including some paintings from the “Discovery of the Pacific Northwest” series - were exhibited at the Washington State Historical Society Museum in Tacoma. He was also a member of the Puget Sound Group of Men Painters. McAllister retired from the Seattle Times in 1965; he passed away in Arizona in 1970.
Identifier: spl_art_291985_17.172
Date: 1954
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Gourmet's Notebook, v.15, no.4, Apr.-May 1987
Combined issue, April and May 1987; Aegean, pg. 30; Arita, pg. 28; Chuckanut Manor, pg. 27; Meany Grill, pg. 29; Oyster Bar, pg. 26; Oyster Creek Inn, pg. 26; Subway, pg. 31; Wanza, pg. 25
Identifier: spl_gn_928180_1987_15_04
Date: 1987-04
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Casey's Menu
Located where the Marine Room used to be, inside the Olympic Hotel, Casey's offered a much more casual vibe. Opened in 1977, and managed by Dennis Fitzpatrick, a former University of Washington quarterback, Casey's served sandwiches with sporty titles, like "Punt, Pass & Pastrami" or "Foul Play."
Identifier: spl_menu_00148
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Coffee Lodge Menu, ca. 1980
Opened in 1965 as the Renton Inn, it became the Sheraton-Renton Inn under a franchise agreement with Sheraton Inns, Inc. The Coffee Lodge served as the Inn's dining room. The hotel, the biggest in Renton at the time with 188 rooms, was purchased in 1987 by Renton Joint Ventures, and renamed the Holiday Inn Renton.
Identifier: spl_menu_00187
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