The Blue Room, The Roosevelt Hotel, New Orleans, 1952 Clinton Ernest Hemingway also frequented this

Ernest Hemingway also frequented this venerable restaurant from 1921 to 1928 and the author references it in his second novel about the “lost generation” called The Sun Also Rises

This incredibly colorful and cheerful menu suggests that a grand fiesta was to be had while dining at Fonda Santa Anita

April 1946

or the 1928 Haute Sauterne for but $1

It was run by restaurateur Henri Soulé who went on to open Le Pavillon on East 55th Street in 1941

The Blue Room, The Roosevelt Hotel, New Orleans, 1952 Clinton Ernest Hemingway also frequented thisWe love this 1952 menu cover of the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans for its wonderful image. What's going on behind those illuminated windows, we wonder, and look at the stylish automobiles lined up on the street. The building isn't actually blue, of course, it's the clever way the artist brought attention to The Blue Room, once one of the most famous supper clubs in America. Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra were among the list of