The Breakfast Autocrat, 1950s New York Kitchen Towel Birds At Frenchy’s Black Cat Cafe

At Frenchy’s Black Cat Cafe the local newspaper reported that the choice of starter on the fixed lunch menu was "cocktail or soup” which makes us laugh

Created by the celebrated artist and author Andrew Loomis*

is a great example of the modernist style or perhaps something between modernism and art deco

The design is simple but superb – with the famous Stork taking centre stage

Situated on the corner of Shaftesbury Avenue and Windmill Street it was owned and operated by J

The Breakfast Autocrat, 1950s New York Kitchen Towel Birds At Frenchy’s Black Cat CafeThe Autocrat of the Breakfast Table is a collection of essays written by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1857 and 1858. They take the form of a one sided dialogue between the author and other residents of a New England Boarding House. This lovely literary nod by the 2,500 room Hotel New Yorker for its breakfast menu shows that the management knew their clientele very well indeed. The 1940s and 1950s saw