Contents

• The city without a restaurant
• From field to market : the New York feast
• New York on the half shell
• A little restaurant and how it grew : the Delmonico’s story
• New York becomes a restaurant city
• The melting pot - - The dawn of the golden age
• The birth of Times Square
• The party that never stopped
• The future is now
• Decline and fall
• The restaurant gets small
• Red banquettes and kisses on the ceiling
• The Baum years
• California comes calling
• With knife and fork in New York