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A typical blue-plate special board, from the Red Arrow Diner in Manchester, New Hampshire. A blue-plate special is a discount-priced meal that changes daily. The practice was common from the 1920s in American and Canadian restaurants through the 1950s, especially in diners and greasy spoons.
Blueplate was a lunch counter and soda fountain [1] at the intersection of Third Avenue and Washington Street, [2] [3] in downtown Portland's Dekum Building. Karen Brooks of The Oregonian called the restaurant a "tiny, adorable outpost of apothecary chic", and described an "old-fashioned" counter with swivel stools and shelves stocking powders, "potions" and other "mysterious" liquids. [4]
A blue-plate special A garde manger chaud froid dish, used as a display piece A table d'hôte menu from the New York City Lotos Club, 1893. 86 – a term used when the restaurant has run out of, or is unable to prepare a particular menu item. The term is also generally used to mean getting rid of someone or something, including the situation ...
A new two-in-one operation in Silver Lake is combining tacos with speakeasy cocktails. Santa Monica's Blue Plate Restaurant Group (Blue Plate Oysterette, Blue Plate Taco) expanded east with ...
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.
Similar concepts include the Hawaiian plate lunch, which features a variety of entrée choices with fixed side items of white rice and macaroni salad, [7] and the southern Louisiana plate lunch, which features menu options that change daily. [8] It is somewhat similar to a blue-plate special but with a more fixed menu. [9]
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A cover of the 1909 Santa Fe Railway pamphlet describing Fred Harvey hotels, dining rooms and sample menus. The Fred Harvey Company was the owner of the Harvey House chain of restaurants, hotels and other hospitality industry businesses alongside railroads in the Western United States.