#58 Delmonico's Restaurant

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Places & Travel

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2010

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Before Delmonico's, New Yorkers ate in taverns or oyster houses. But the city caught the fine dining bug at this family-owned business, Delmonico's Restaurant Francais, which standardized everything you know about restaurants today. Find out about "menus", "fresh ingredients", "dining rooms for ladies" and other unusual and exotic Delmonico innovations. www.boweryboyspodcast.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

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0:00.0	The Bowry Boys episode 58, Del Monaco's the first restaurant.
0:05.2	Hey, it's the Bowry Boys.
0:06.8	Hey.
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0:12.8	Eurochipo editors personally visit and review
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0:22.0	Hello there and welcome to the Bowry Boys.
0:23.8	My name is Greg Young.
0:25.0	Tom is out to lunch this week.
0:27.6	Our topic we are returning to one of my favorite concepts,
0:31.6	the topic of food.
0:33.2	Now according to the New York City Department of Health,
0:35.6	believe it or not, the city has 20,000 restaurants.
0:39.6	However, the restaurant that started at all was Del Monaco's restaurant.
0:43.6	The current incarnation of Del Monaco's
0:45.6	is at 56 Beaver Street in the financial district,
0:48.6	just steps away from the stock exchange and federal hall.
0:52.6	Del Monaco's is considered New York's first real restaurant,
0:56.6	based in the context that we can understand today.
0:59.6	It sets the rules for fine dining.
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