page_title: Delmonico's
section_title: Menus
hierarchical_section_title: Delmonico's / Menus
caption_attribution_description: English: "PRICED MENU, FRENCH ON ONE SIDE, ENGLISH ON THE OTHER; LOCATION OF RESTAURANT HANDWRITTEN BY FNB;"
context_page_description: Delmonico's is the name of various New York City restaurants of varying duration, quality, and fame.
  The original and most famous iteration was operated by the Delmonico family at 2 South William Street in Lower Manhattan during the 19th and early 20th centuries, when it gained a reputation as one of the nation's top fine dining establishments. The birthplace of the widely imitated Delmonico steak, the restaurant is credited with being one of the first American restaurants to allow patrons to order from a menu à la carte, as opposed to table d'hôte. It is also said to be the first to employ a separate wine list.
  The family also opened other restaurants under the name, operating up to four at a time and ultimately totaling 10 establishments by the time it departed the business in 1923.
  In 1926, restaurateur Oscar Tucci purchased the ground floor and the basement of the 70,000-square foot building at 56 Beaver Street and reopened Delmonico's as a speakeasy. During the 1920s and 1930s the upper floors of 56 Beaver Street were being used as offices for ship insurance, legal offices, and other types of offices.
caption: Dinner menu from Water St./ Beaver St. location, April 18, 1899. The reverse has the same menu in French.
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