“Your Table is Ready: Dining Out in Hennepin County through the Decades” in Hennepin Gallery March 4 through May 26
Wednesday, March 4, 2020 at 2:18PMVia a March 4 announcement from Hennepin County:
“Your Table is Ready: Dining Out in Hennepin County through the Decades” in Hennepin Gallery March 4 through May 26
Hennepin Gallery is celebrating our love of food and fine dining in the new exhibit, “Your Table is Ready: Dining Out in Hennepin County Through the Decades.”
Thanks to the Hennepin County Library Special Collections, the Hennepin Gallery exhibit features menus, photographs, postcards and more celebrating the restaurant scene from the 1880s through the 1970s. Do you remember the lavish Minneapolis restaurants like The Nankin or Charlie’s Cafe Exceptionale? Do you still visit the iconic Murray’s and the northeast favorite, Jax’s Café? How about the first drive thru or drive in?
Through times of prosperity and times of shortage -- World War I, Prohibition, the Great Depression, and World War II – Minnesotans continued to eat out. Even with the advent of fast food, fine dining continued to flourish because many of these restaurants served more than just food: They featured stimulating, opulent interiors and memorable live entertainment. Eating out was an experience.
We hope you are hungry because your table is ready. Come to the Hennepin Gallery and enjoy.
About the Hennepin County Library Special Collections
The Hennepin County Library Special Collections at the Minneapolis Central Library houses over 1,000 local menus from the 1880s to today. View more menus online in the Library’s Digital Collections www.hclib.org/digitalcollections.
Interested in donating menus to the collection? Contact specialcoll@hclib.org.
This exhibit is presented by Hennepin County Library Special Collections.
The Hennepin Gallery is free and open to the public Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., at the Hennepin County Government Center, A-Level, 300 S. Sixth St., Minneapolis.
