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Louis' Lunch is a fast food hamburger restaurant in New Haven, Connecticut, which claims to be the first fast food restaurant to serve hamburgers and the oldest continuously operated hamburger restaurant in the United States. It was opened as a small lunch wagon in 1895 and was one of the first places in the U.S. to serve steak sandwiches.
Early bird dinner is a dinner served earlier than traditional dinner hours, particularly at a restaurant.Many establishments offer a seating prior to their main dinner seating with a reduced price menu, often more limited in selection than the standard dinner menu.
The term became common starting in the late 1920s. A May 27, 1926 advertisement in The New York Times for "The Famous Old Sea Grill Lobster and Chop House" at 141 West 45th Street promised "A La Carte All Hours", "Moderate Prices", and "Blue Plate Specials". A December 2, 1928, article, lamenting the rise in prices that had made it difficult to ...
In 1720 a party of eight men, originally from England, bought 16,000 acres of the region and called it Wellington. [4] Willington was incorporated in May 1727. [5] Named "Wellington," in May 1725, from Wellington, Somersetshire, the birthplace of Roger Wolcott's grandfather Henry Wolcott. However, when incorporated in May 1727, the town's name ...
Saturday morning preview specials were aired on television annually to present previews of each network's fall lineup of Saturday-morning cartoon children's programming. Similar to the model for their new prime time counterpart shows, television networks in the United States and Canada would film a preview special for the fall season.
Willington Common Historic District is a historic district that includes the town green, Willington Common, of the town of Willington, Connecticut.The common and the surrounding buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
The South Willington Historic District is a historic district encompassing the historic village of South Willington in the town of Willington, Connecticut.The village, mostly stretched along Connecticut Route 32, developed as a 19th-century industrial mill village associated with the Gardiner Hall Jr. Company.
A Sunday roast or roast dinner is a British dish, traditionally consumed on Sunday. It consists of roasted meat, roasted potatoes or mashed potatoes , and accompaniments such as Yorkshire pudding , stuffing , gravy , and may include condiments such as apple sauce , mint sauce , redcurrant sauce, mustard, cranberry or Horseradish sauce.