Jennings, Jim, active 1950-1960s

Date: 1960 - 1961

By: Kennedy, David, active 1960s

Reference: Eph-C-DINING-1960-02

Description: Menu from an Auckland restaurant, offering a wide choice. Specialities included various steaks, beef Strognoff, Vienna Schnitzel, Hungarian goulash, roast turkey. The foreword argues the case for allowing alcohol to be served with restaurant food. The back page gives an introduction to the cover artist, David Kennedy. The front cover designed by David Kennedy shows an armour-clad knight as a restaurant patron, being served with a tin-opener. The menu predates December 13, 1961, when the Gourmet got its first liquor licence. Extended title, naming Otto Groen and Jim Jennings, is on back cover Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on light card, tied with cord inside black cover, 305 x 247 mm. Provenance: From the collection of Tony Murray-Oliver, 1987.

Date: 1967

By: Leader Press Group

Reference: Eph-C-DINING-1967-02

Description: Menu from an Auckland restaurant shows prices in sterling and decimal currency. Meals included pizza, salads, charcoal broiled steaks, egg dishes, lobster tails, sandwiches, cheeses, sweet pies and waffles. The back cover has a message from Jim Jennings, the American proprietor, and refers to Otto Groen, who ran the Gourmet Restaurant. It advertises the Sunday "Parade of Chefs" in which chefs from the Gourmet Restaurant would serve additional special dishes at the Hi Diddle Griddle. The front cover shows an illustration by "Ricky" of the nursery rhyme "Hi Diddle Diddle". Date estimated because of prices in two currencies (sterling and decimal) Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on light card folded to 353 x 240 mm.