Museum object · Memorabilia and Ephemera - Other
Menu from the Florida Avenue Grill restaurant
after 2009
1100 Florida Avenue NW, Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
A menu from the Florida Avenue Grill restaurant in Washington, DC. The menu is a tri-fold design, with plastic sleeves bound by plastic trim. The sheets of paper inside each plastic sleeve can be removed or replaced. The front of the menu features a full-page photograph of the restaurant's founder, Lacey C. Wilson Sr., with the logo of the restaurant at the bottom-right corner. Adhered to the upper right hand corner is a sticker, worn around the edges, with the text "FLORIDA AVENUE GRILL / 65th / ANNIVERSARY 200 [obscured]". On the inside of the menu, in the upper banner, are the headers "BREAKFAST" on the left side, "SANDWICHES" in the middle, and "DINNER" on the right. The breakfast menu is listed on the left, sandwiches and daily specials in the middle, and dinners, seafood, desserts and beverages on the right.
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Catalog reference: 2016.114.1