Posted on 09/30/2016 9:25:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Oh, the Silver Palate was very influential in Manhattan - Chicken Marango! I still have their cookbook. I think one of the authors passed away.
On West 72nd, right off B’way, there was a sit-down deli - was that Fine & Shapiro? I may have it mixed up. There was one I went to on occasion and I’m thinking it might have been kosher or dairy or...I just forget. It was on the south side of 72nd.
I always hate to see an establishment that has become an institution go. Seems like they’re all struggling except for the national chains, and even some of those are in trouble.
Just looked at some photos and Fine and Schapiro’s it is. Kosher, too. I used to linger there in between acting lessons or rehearsal.
There’s a real dive in Chelsea called Eisenberg’s - one of the oldest greasy spoons in Manhattan. But people swear by its hamburgers.
No, you’re right, that’s Fine & Schapiro.
Wife and I were among Julee and Sheila’s first customers when they had the tiny ground floor shop of a townhouse on w73rd. Wasn’t long before they opened the bigger store front on Columbus, keeping the old kitchen as well. Great NYC success story and we had a ring side seat.
Very nice. In the late 70s & early 80s, Columbus Avenue went from being a dump to being pretty hot. Dino DeLaurentis had that major food emporium, remember that? Beat Eataly by about 30 years!
It was Sheila Lukens who died, I believe.
Good news...Carnagie Deli still delivers nationwide.
http://carnegiedeli.com/menus/sandwiches-deli-classics/
Order some pastrami or corned beef on rye and just say no to the cheesecake!
The huge flames roaring out of the frying pan when the chef fried the potato pancakes! I loved that place. It had to move farther east and then I think it closed.
I remember one night a couple of cops walked in and the whole staff tensed in fear. Then I remembered they were German.
Delicious food.
There was a place called Forrester’s too—doesn’t sound German but it was. In the East Eighties, maybe 82nd between Lex and Third. A bar area on the east side of the place and the restaurant connected on the west. Did you ever go there? That was my favorite. I took a German woman there one time and she pronounced it authentic. She turned out to be an East German spy so maybe she was lying to get information out of me. Fun days. Now I’m on the West Side and the best German food is at the street fairs.
There was a place called Forrester’s too—doesn’t sound German but it was. In the East Eighties, maybe 82nd between Lex and Third. A bar area on the east side of the place and the restaurant connected on the west. Did you ever go there? That was my favorite. I took a German woman there one time and she pronounced it authentic. She turned out to be an East German spy so maybe she was lying to get information out of me. Fun days. Now I’m on the West Side and the best German food is at the street fairs.
Oh I think I went there! I lived at 82nd and Third at the time. They had big cold meatballs that actually must have been made of leftover ham. They were fantastic. Then they must have lost their chef because one time I went and the meatballs were FAR from the same—they just LOOKED the same.
I worked for Austrians on 4th Avenue when Luchow’s was in existence, and they used to get Wienerschnitzel to take out in a brown paper bag for lunch.
Yes! Like Dante’s Inferno...
Actually, it's the carbs in the bread on the sandwiches that are more of a threat than the fat in the cheesecakes. That's ok. Fat and protein are good for you. Carbohydrates in excess are what human fat are built out of.
No, sorry I don’t remember Forresters. Too bad for me - it sounds fine! I tended not to use Lexington for food - being close to First Avenue. The furthest I got was 3rd. I never used the Lexington Avenue subway in those days because “it was too far.” I used either buses or taxis.
I wonder when the 2nd Avenue subway will be finished???
The greatest boondoggle of all time. They were talking about it when I first came to New York. It is dangerous construction, also. Easy to get hit by a car the way things are now. And don’t take the Second Avenue bus unless you bring provisions and a tent.
Cookbook editors could shoot them for introducing the running sidebar. Immediately every cookbook author had to have one. It made book production so much more difficult at that time, and drove the copyeditors and proofreaders nuts.
Good food, though. The right concept at the right time.
Martell’s was my local dive, at 83rd and Third. Did you ever go there? Many a memory in that place.
Take a look at this site:
http://www.murphguide.com/closedbars.htm
Tears will come to your eyes.
Martell’s closed in 2006. I went there once with Doctor Raoul just for old times’ sake after some kind of trouble we made in New York.
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