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Valle's Steak House
Date EstablishedLocation1933Portland, Maine
Description
Valle's Steak House was a group of restaurants on the East Coast of from 1933 to 2000 with a menu that featured on steaks and lobsters. It expanded during the early 1970s but could not overcome the gas crisis, economic nosedive; higher labor costs, and lack of customers. What started as a 12-seat café in Portland, Maine in 1933 and purchased at the end of Prohibition by Donald Valle. With increased success it he was able to expand to a larger location that was previously used as a nightclub in Scarborough, Maine. With continued good fortune was able to open other locations in In the mid-1960s Valle expanded to Massachusetts where he established three Boston-area steak houses in Saugus, Newton, and Braintree This did not last and the final three Valle's Steak House restaurants operating as part of Hanson's corporation closed on Friday, December 27, 1991. Judith Valle's restaurant continued operating in Portland as "Valle's Steak House" until it ceased operations on Sunday, August 20, 2000.
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Cruising through many states of America, remnants of eateries of the past can still be found. Travel back to a stage in time with me to rekindle the memories of food franchises and the lost cuisine of bygone days. We can remember the presence of these dining experiences in their heyday long ago, but still etched in moments and recollections.
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