Among the many well-known people who patronized Delmonico 's are Jenny Lind , who , it was said , ate there after every show , Theodore Roosevelt , Mark Twain , Arthur Sullivan , `` Diamond Jim '' Brady , Lillian Russell , usually in the company of Diamond Jim , Charles Dickens , Oscar Wilde , J.P. Morgan , James Gordon Bennett , Jr. , Nikola Tesla , Edward VII , then-Prince of Wales , and Napoleon III of France .
Among the many well-known people who patronized Delmonico 's are Jenny Lind , who , it was said , ate there after every show , Theodore Roosevelt , Mark Twain , `` Diamond Jim '' Brady , Lillian Russell , usually in the company of Diamond Jim , Charles Dickens , Oscar Wilde , J.P. Morgan , James Gordon Bennett , Jr. , Walter Scott , Nikola Tesla , Edward VII , then the Prince of Wales , and Napoleon III of France .