Listeria: Prices in Bowery Eating Saloons And Groggeries In 1897

What the Bowery looked like in the late 1890s.


According to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

DRINK

  • Milk punch…5 ¢
  • Sherry and egg…5¢
  • Mint julep…5¢
  • Large glass of lager…3¢
  • Pint of whiskey…10¢
  • Cocktails…6¢
  • Glass of porter…3¢
  • Glass of whiskey…3¢
  • Big cup of coffee…5¢

FOOD

  • Prime roast beef…5¢
  • Corn beef and cabbage…5¢
  • Mutton chops…5¢
  • Three boiled eggs…5¢
  • Country sausages…5¢
  • Gilt edge kidney stew…5¢
  • Green turtle soup…5¢
  • Beef steak…5¢
  • Pork and beans….5¢