Manufacturer: Maddock Pottery
Name of user: Bustanoby's Restaurants, New York City
Date of example: circa 1902 – 1920

Bustanoby's 1913 menu

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Notes: The Basque-born Bustanoby brothers, Andre, Jacques and Louis, opened the Cafe des Beaux-Arts, on 40th Street and 6th Avenue in 1902. It offered something besides food, which was unheard of until they introduced it: dancing between courses. Their business prospered, and they opened the Chateau des Beaux-Arts at Huntington, Long Island.

By August of 1910, the three brothers were in a disagreement stemming from their financial problems. In October 1910, Louis sold his interest in the two restaurants to his brothers and used the proceeds to start his own restaurant, Taverne Louis, in the basement of the Flatiron Building. On January 31, 1912, Andre and Jacques filed for bankruptcy.

By April 1913, Louis Bustanoby had regained exclusive control of the Cafe des Beaux-Arts, renovated and reopened it. Jacques and Andre opened a new Bustanoby's on 39th Street, between Broadway and Sixth Avenue.

On Aug. 4, 1917, Louis Bustanoby died at age 44.

By January 1920, Andre Bustanoby was the owner of the Cafe des Beaux-Arts, but the Volstead Act ended the sale of alcohol, and led to the closing of the restaurant.

Jacques Bustanoby died March 23, 1942, at age 62.

Maddock designed an overglaze decal border for the Bustanoby restaurant which is shown in the Maddock pattern sample book as "2288 Overglaze Bustanoby." An actual example of this china has not been found, so it is not known if the china was backstamped for Bustanoby's or what the color of the border was.

Source:
Restaurant-ing through history: Cabarets and lobster palaces
Brooklyn Eagle – Louis Bustanoby obit

For more info:
Bustanoby's 2, by Wm. Guerin & Co.
Bustanoby's 3, by Shenango China

Contributor:
Larry Paul: author