Founded in 1880 by Louis Sherry, it began as a restaurant on Sixth Avenue with modest capital. At first it advanced with difficulty, but its success soon arrived thanks to a highly recognizable style, based on delicate décor and a service full of novelties that captivated New York’s social elite at the end of the 19th century. In 1890 it moved to a more prestigious location near Fifth Avenue, and growing demand led it to move again in 1898 to a building at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 44th Street. In the years before World War I, Sherry’s consolidated its reputation as a high-society restaurant, associated with dinners and events as luxurious as they were eccentric. In 1903 it hosted a famous banquet in which guests dined on horseback in a specially prepared room, with staging that evoked the English countryside. In 1919 it moved again, installing itself in the Hotel New Netherland at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 59th Street. It closed two years later.