QE2 menu covers

[Louis De Sousa]

Over the years i have collected QE2 Dinner Cover Menus.
Love to share them here,hope someone can add any too.

[Lynda Bradford]

 Louis thanks for posting the link to some of the amazing menu covers from your collection.  You are very fortunate to have had the opportunity to collect these.  I only have one menu cover which pales into insignificance when I see your collection, but I have attached.

[Lynda Bradford]

Hello Louis

Was there specific information about the place or occasion within the menus? or just the menu for the day? The graphics are wonderful and make a good keepsake. 

[Louis De Sousa]

Was there specific information about the place or occasion within the menus? or just the menu for the day?

Some have specific information others are just plain menu of the day

[Chris Frame]

Louis thanks for posting the link to some of the amazing menu covers from your collection.  You are very fortunate to have had the opportunity to collect these.  I only have one menu cover which pales into insignificance when I see your collection, but I have attached.

I've got that one in my collection Lynda

[Isabelle Prondzynski]

What a superb collection, Louis!

I have just gone through them by slideshow :

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ex-crewmember/sets/72157623889247865/show/

Do we know anything about how these menu covers were created? Was the design work done on board by a resident artist? Or were they prepared on land and sent to the ship? I suppose there was a colour printer available to do the physical printing...

I don't believe I was ever on board for one of these special occasions... great to get the chance now to see them here!

[peter ward]

Commemorative menu for the wedding of charles and di  could be worth a few bob?

[Louis De Sousa]

could be worth a few bob?

For sure

[Lynda Bradford]

I was so interested in the wonderful design of your menu covers Louis that I bought 8 menu covers from the 1980's on ebay and I am delighted with my purchase.  Now I need to look for more. 

Do you know if the menu covers were only for world cruises?

[cunardqueen]

  Do you know if the menu covers were only for world cruises?

In my early days of cruising you had a lavish menu printed on card with a nice cover for dinner and the same standard menu for breakfast, then a paper menu inserted into a folder for lunch.
Then again in later years Cunard resorted to just printing the menus and then they were inserted into cardboard folder, some were nice, and some were not so nice.
  Those were the days.....

[cunardqueen]

From the Millennium Cruise

Note: images not available

[cunardqueen]

And the Roaring Twenties Night..
(But Ox tongue.... ?

NoteL. images no longer available

[cunardqueen]

The 1987 Maiden voyage of the NEW QE2
A slightly larger than normal cardboard menu cover..
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[Fairfield]

A couple of covers from the last voyage out to Port Rashid.

[baltaogc]

http://www.beyondships.com/QE2-Menus.html


http://www.beyondships.com/QE2-Menu-lasttransatlantic-2.html

Feb 7 1967

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Otl4LD-Gzgs/Tft0IVuVAlI/AAAAAAAAAOg/r78Ur5bRtgs/s1600/Cunard+Menu+RMS+Queen+Elizabeth+-+West+Indies+Cruise+-+Feb+7+1967+-+inside.jpg

Attached below with thanks to Culinary Arts Museum
http://culinaryartsmuseum.blogspot.com/2011_06_01_archive.html

[baltaogc]

Princess Grill 2008

attached thanks to http://www.cruisesavvy.com/cruise_pictures/search?page=43

[baltaogc]

A selection of about 18 menu's and covers from 1970 onward posted on Flckr .(with thanks)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/captainmartini/sets/72157628203867167/detail/

and more photos of Restaurants with some menu's  http://www.thecaptainslog.org.uk/Menus/CunardMenus.html  thanks to The Captains log and previous Executive Chefs (may be the same or similar)