Author: [Restaurant Menu - Cairo, Egypt]
Title: METROPOLITAN HOTEL - CAIRO.; Carte du Jour
Description: (n.p.): , 1935. 1st Printing. White card stock leaf, printed in red and blue. Now housed in a mylar sleeve. Broadsheet. 12-5/8" x 9-1/4". A VG copy. Corners are slight bumped and rubbed, some light age toning, otherwise a nice bright copy. "The [now] Cosmopolitan [Hotel] began life as the Grosvenor Hotel, back in the early 1920s. In 1929, the building’s lease was purchased by Egypt’s premier hotelier Charles Baehler, who did his own refurb and reopened the place in May 1929, renaming the hotel the Metropolitan. Baehler was the chairman of Egyptian Hotels Ltd, which already owned almost every grand hotel in Cairo.." [Grand Hotels of Egypt website] This menu is in French and only offering French cuisine.

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