Bull Street Café, Birmingham 1917 - 1920

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Bull Street Café, Birmingham 1917 - 1920An early menu from the Birmingham Coffee House Company Ltd in Englands second city. By 1917 coffee houses were booming in England. The Bull Street Caf, a Quaker owned establishment (like another Birmingham based company Cadbury's) was part of the Temperance movement and hoped to provide alternatives to pubs. The Birmingham Coffee House Company was founded 1877. They also opened the Cobden Hotel on Corporation Street, where House Of Fraser (formerly

The hotel continued its commitment to gender equality by becoming the first in the United States to employ female chefs

but when Italy entered the war in June 1940 Rex was laid up for safe-keeping

The second floor boasted private dining rooms

Tanty’s ideas were rather grand

" In the early days

off which are the glassed-in main dining room ( dining and dancing) and the Club Room ( small

The 1920s – also known as the Roaring Twenties – was a time of celebration and experiment in Britain

Frank Sinatra would sometimes come in and dine with the host at booth 1

” This philosophical gem became so popular that both Franklin D Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover

Called a triple pennon

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with the most expensive bottle costing only six dollars