[cs702]

Interesting, these really old menus would not look too out of place at a restaurant today.

[9dev]

And the other way around too - it sounds like you could have had a very similar dining experience as today. It always amazes me how very little difference there is between past people's lifestyles and ours. I know this on a factual level, but being presented with a tiny peek into the past like this is always very humbling to me.

[com2kid]

The first menu I opened had tongue sandwiches and hot beef tea.

So some things have definitely changed!

[apical_dendrite]

A tongue sandwich is still pretty popular in some cultures. My parents and some of their friends served it sometimes when I was growing up.

[kibwen]

Any respectable city will have a burrito joint somewhere with lengua on the menu.

[ricardobayes]

Unfortunately in Europe printed menus almost entirely disappeared after COVID. Before, leather-clad, elegant, printed menus were commonplace, but nowadays every place just has a QR code.

[distances]

What nonsense. QR codes exist but seem quite rare around here, it's definitely almost all proper menus.

[haunter]

I'm in Europe and never seen a "just has a QR code" menu

[shermantanktop]

You apparently go to a different type of restaurant than I do. The typical Roman pizza joint or Florentine trattoria or Berlin beer hall rarely had leather-clad menus. And I haven’t seen that many QR codes.

But QR codes are not awesome, I agree. They are more hygienic, less wasteful of paper, and easier to update. But I don’t want to use my phone when I am out with others.

[_puk]

Quite the sweeping statement that contradicts my recent time across a few European countries.

If the primary purpose is a bar that also serves food, yes.

If it's proper dining. No