Word: delmonico
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Louis R. Delmonico...
...Excessive, indiscriminate tippling eventually led to the passage of Prohibition, which the authors argue set back the development of American wine. Yet the nation's most famous glutton spurned ardent spirits for orange juice and lemon pop. Tales of Diamond Jim Brady's Gay Nineties gorging at Delmonico's in New York are not only legendary but hard to believe. Is it possible that one man could have eaten at one sitting the following: two to three dozen giant oysters, half a dozen crabs, two bowls of green turtle soup, six lobsters, two portions of terrapin...
DISCOS. Even delegates from Slippery Rock have heard that the Hippopotamus (405 E. 62nd St.) is resoundingly déclassé: too expensive ($12 minimum, $4 a drink), too loud, too ... well, last year. The new place to gawk and be groped is Regine's, in the Delmonico Hotel (Park Ave. and 59th St.), which is just as loud, pricy and up-to-the-second in chic. A cover charge of $10 (plus from $3 to $6 a drink) buys you the privilege of rubbernecking as the celebs make grand entrances on the long center staircase, boogying...
...newest of her high-priced nightspots. The sometime singer-actress, notorious for banning the unhip from her clubs in Paris, Monte Carlo and Rio, was all open arms as she offered several hundred guests a preview look at her new dance-and-dining emporium. The locale: Manhattan's Delmonico hotel. The stars: Actress Candice Bergen, Designer Hubert de Givenchy and former Vogue Editor Diana Vreeland. The floor show: a fashion exhibit featuring "ready-to-dance" dresses created by the red-haired restaurateur herself. "I have always, since a child, dream to have my name on Broadway," confessed...
Here is President James Garfield, for instance, well before he was shot down, dining at the posh New York restaurant of the gilded age, Delmonico...