The Menu Collection contains 118 menus from across the world. The bulk of the menus are from the United States and Europe. Most of the menus are from the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century, along with some menus dating earlier in the twentieth century. The menus contain a wide variety of cuisines. The collection also contains additional papers, including restaurant business cards, a recipe pamphlet, and exchange rate document from the Icelandic bank.

Series I: Menus organizes the menus based on the country of origin. Within that, the menus are organized by the restaurant name. This information includes the restaurant and city. Some menus also include the year of the menu. The menus illustrate cuisine throughout Europe. Some of the menus come from restaurants that are hundreds of years old. There are also some menus from Egypt, Turkey, China, Japan, and South Korea. Many of the menus come from restaurants in the United States. The cover a wide range of cuisines, such as southern, Asian fusion, French, Italian, German, Thai, Vietnamese, historical, steakhouse, seafood, New American, fine dining, sandwiches and subs, and much more.

Series II: Papers includes additional documents. There is a piece of unidentified artwork and two blank folded cards. There are business cards for two Finnish restaurants in Helsinki. There is a small recipe pamphlet from King's Arm Tavern in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States. There is also a 1979 exchange rate paper from the Central Bank of Iceland that shows the rates for multiple monetary values.