Needle & Thread Grill
With spindles, a spinning wheel, and a loom (?) in the window.
Adventures in dining
“A local restaurant is hoping to reopen soon after closing last week due to numerous health department violations, including using mortar mixers and power drills to ‘mix up batter and beat eggs.’”
A lost Clipper
The China Clipper Restaurant and the mysterious disappearance of its owner.
Schrafft’s, plural
Looking for the Schrafft’s where my mom and dad may have eaten lunch.
Childs
Childs restaurants were once ubiquitous in New York.
O Pioneer!
The Pioneer Restaurant makes a brief appearance in A.J. Liebling's “Bowery Boom.”
New directions in eating
Khao soi.
FTX fortunes
Many months ago our favorite restaurant (Thai) began handing out fortune cookies with FTX advertising on one side. I wonder how long it’ll be before these fortunes disappear.
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Jack Delaney’s: Now with a 1960 advertisement and a Tack Room.
Recently updated
Jack Delaney’s: Now with a menu.
Jack Delaney’s
A Greenwich Village restaurant with a horse (not a real one) and cart on the roof.
How to Automat
From The Sleeping City (dir. George Sherman, 1950).
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A remarkable story set in Le Steak de Paris.
A Hamilton House postcard
A restaurant on a linen-texture card.
Hamilton House cheesecake
A recipe from an executive chef.
Some of the old songs, Sam
Applebee’s commercials rely on the theme songs from Cheers and Welcome Back, Kotter to encourage a return to in-person eating.
Reservations by notecard
Or, really, a lottery by notecard, or, really, by index card, 3 × 5.
Anti-Establishment
Striking back at the processed milkshake establishment.
Eating at Corky’s
A Valley restaurant.
Things to do in the Valley
The San Fernando Valley, that is. Two bookstores, five restaurants.
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Le Steak de Paris, a vanished Manhattan restaurant, now with photographs.
A Brooklyn bar menu
Sublimated oyster?
A strip-mall restaurant recommendation
The best Thai food I have ever had.
Go fish!
In downstate Illinois, a would-be restaurant robber runs into “a knife-wielding sushi chef.”
Ratner’s (Naked City)
I like the awning: “1½ HOUR FREE PARKING.”
Harry and Bud’s European Cuisine
if you live within driving distance of the Queen City of the Wabash, aka Terre Haute, Indiana, make a reservation and go.
Le Steak de Paris
Maeve Brennan writes about this restaurant several times in The Long-Winded Lady, more than about any other.
One more Automat
A 1943 photograph.
Automat beverage section
Automat coffee dispensers, same as they ever were.
New York, 1964: Automat
From Harold Hart’s Guide to New York City.