Lincoln ate at Delmonico’s Restaurant in New York City

[Steve]

The anecdote comes from page 97 of the 1967 book Delmonico's: A History of Splendor by Lately Thomas. Unfortunately, it doesn't give a source of the anecdote but it does give more context. It says that was during a meeting Lincoln had with Gen. John A. Dix, Thurlow Weed, and Henry Ward Beecher:


https://books.google.com/books?id=BcU1AQ...9D&f=false

I have no idea whether such a meeting actually happened.