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The Courtenay Club Cuisine

Some of the toothsome morsels to beguile your tongue are here listed: Green turtle soup with sherry, New Orleans Creole gumbo, shrimp and crawfish bisque from New Orleans, Scotch grouse, English pheasants, Hazel hens, Mallard duck, wild turkey, baby venison, Old Virginia ham, partridge, famous Minnesota wild rice, jumbo squab, Jersey pullets, Maryland stall-fed geese, Pinesbridge smoked turkey, smoked oysters, Diamond-back terrapin, North Carolina Sally White cake, Vermont sausage, frogs legs, oystercrabs, fragrant teas from China, India and Ceylon, rare wild honey from Arkansas, and hundreds of other items cooked and prepared by special recipes from all over the world.

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THE COURTENAY CLUB

Located on the 23rd and 24th floors, with terrace facilities, in the Hecksher Building, 57th Street and Fifth Avenue, New York City.

Club Facilities: -- Main dining room, bar, lounge, private dining room, banquet room and terrace.

Membership: -- By invitation only, limited to 200 resident members and 100 non-resident members.

There will be no initiation fee for the first 150 charter members. The annual dues are extremely modest and there are to be no assessments of any kind.

Members are privileged to invite ladies, for which a special dining room is provided.

Function: -- The purpose and function of The Courtenay Club is to render to its members a cuisine second to none in New York with very low annual dues for membership. This Club is not to be operated for great profit but more particularly to render to its members the highest efforts in the culinary art, with Old English atmosphere in refined surroundings.

730 FIFTH AVENUE

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