J. Lyons & Co, Piccadilly Hotel, Paris 1889 Fort lee Pat Martino

Pat Martino

Quincy Jones

Black cats are said to bring luck

but we sure had a lot of customers

If your party is sizeable and squired by someone of the successful business-executive type

J. Lyons & Co, Piccadilly Hotel, Paris 1889 Fort lee Pat MartinoLyons was famous for its tea shops, which were a major British institution well into the second half of the Twentieth Century. But before the first tea shop opened, in 1894 in Piccadilly, Joseph Lyons and his partners had trialled their catering operation elsewhere, first in Newcastle in 1887, and then in Glasgow in 1888. This menu cover dates from 1889, the year of an Exposition Universelle or Worlds Fair in Paris, which brought the city the Eiffel