The Old Barn Menu Private Club Parkside Ave Burbank Illinois 1955

 

A 4 page Dinner menu from The Old Barn a Private Club on Parkside Ave in Burbank Illinois. Circa 1955 Measures about 6 3/8" x 9 1/2" when closed. This menu is circa 1955.

Due to the size limitations of my scanner, the entire menu may not show in some of the scans.  

From the Chicago Tribune in 1988

The Old Barn, 8100 Parkside Ave., Burbank, promises gracious dining, reasonable prices, attentive service, a lovely setting-and a rich history as well. That may be why it has garnered a loyal following at lunch and dinner, especially on weekends. According to the tale on the menu, Andy Kluck opened the restaurant in 1921 a few blocks north of its present location. During Prohibition, the place was a speakeasy as well as a hangout for the aviation pioneers who flew out of Ashburn Airport nearby. In 1930, Kluck moved the restaurant to its present site, but a fire destroyed the wood building two years later. In 1933, the Old Barn opened its present building. Today, the rambling restaurant and its large parking lot dominate the corner of State Road and Central Avenue. From the moment you`re buzzed into the wood-paneled lobby (the buzzer is a throwback to those speakeasy days), you feel like you`ve arrived at your Old Kentucky Home-or perhaps your Old Kentucky Dining Club. The decor includes enough thick red-leather chairs, framed equestrian prints, antique silver pieces, wood-burning fireplaces and brass-lantern lamps to satisfy the horsey set for a month. You can eat in the Tack Room (where men are required to wear jackets), or the more informal garden room. Both offer substantially the same menu. The food is solid, old-fashioned, meat-and-potatoes fare-steaks and chops, roast duck, sauteed liver, fried chicken, as well as fish and seafood- at reasonable prices (entrees are $6.50 to $15.50). Meals include cheese and crackers, a choice of potatoes, rolls, as well as salad, cottage cheese or gelatin salad. And if the kitchen would learn to go easy on the melted butter (which seems to be ladled on everything), things would be happy indeed. Appetizers include such house specials as Mushrooms Tomas ($3.95)-an amalgam of thinly sliced sauteed mushrooms, bacon, and cheese awash in butter sauce-as well as Lobster Bentley ($4.95), three overcooked chunks of seafood swimming in the same buttery sea. A far better starter is the shrimp cocktail, five fresh-tasting crustaceans ($4.95) in a small pewter serving bowl. Entrees fare much better. The roast prime rib ($12.50) is a double-thick chop-rosy-red rare as ordered-juicy and delicious. But the accompanying baked potatoes arrive so drenched in melted butter that the dish of sour cream served on the side seems unneccessary at best. Our waiter recommended the baked halibut, and his suggestion was excellent: The fish arrived moist and flaky, a far superior version of a dish that is too often dry and tasteless. The house salad of iceberg lettuce, red cabbage and red onion is truly crisp and refreshing, although the bland house dressing that accompanies it could be more assertive. The carefully chosen wine list numbers approximately 40 bottles with several selections priced at less than $15. There are fine wines here from California, Italy, Germany and France. (But listing a Chateau Lafite Rothschild at $150 a bottle looks inappropriate, given the menu offerings.) Desserts, listed on a separate menu and priced from 95 cents to $3.95, include seven liqueur-infused parfaits, two sundaes, two cream dessert drinks, cakes and pie. The Black Forest cake ($1.75) is moist and dense but marred by an artificial-tasting creme icing. And diners should be warned that the Famous Old Barn Brandy Ice-a house special of vanilla ice cream, creme de cocoa and brandy, served up in a parfait glass-is very potent. After three spoonfuls, it`s best to ask a friend to drive you home. OLD BARN. 8100 Parkside Ave., Burbank, 422-5400. Hours: 11:30 a.m.-3 p.m. and 5-9 p.m., Mon.-Fri.; 5-10 p.m., Sat.; 1-7 p.m., Sun.; private parties by arrangement. Credit cards: American Express (A), Diner`s Club (DC), MasterCard (M), Visa (V). Reservations: Preferred.

in good condition with corner , spine and edge wear.

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