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The café was the scene of a famous meeting on 24 March 1895, when Frank Harris advised Oscar Wilde to drop his charge of criminal libel against the Marquess of Queensberry, father of Alfred Douglas. Wilde refused the advice, Queensberry was acquitted, and Wilde was subsequently tried, convicted and imprisoned. [4]
Blue Note Jazz Club, New York City, November 2024. The Blue Note Jazz Club is a jazz club and restaurant located at 131 West 3rd Street in Greenwich Village, New York City. [1] The club's performance schedule features shows every evening at 8:00 pm and 10:30 pm and a Sunday jazz brunch.
Restaurant sign. The Spotted Pig was a gastropub located at 314 West 11th Street (at Greenwich Street) in the West Village in Manhattan in New York City. [1] [2] The 100-seat gastropub was owned by Ken Friedman.
And Oscar Wilde was the most obvious at the time, so I called it the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop. [14] [15] In March 1968 Rodwell began publishing a monthly newsletter from the bookshop, calling it HYMNAL. [1] Early organizing meetings for the first Pride Parade in New York City were held at the bookshop in 1970. [16]
Chumley's was a historic pub and former speakeasy at 86 Bedford Street, between Grove and Barrow Streets, in the West Village neighborhood of Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City. It was established in 1922 by the socialist activist Leland Stanford Chumley, who converted a former blacksmith's shop near the corner of Bedford and Barrow ...
Many of the restaurants have a wooden exterior with its trademark green and white colors. The individual Smith and Wollensky restaurants operate using slightly varied menus. In 1997, Ruth Reichl, then-restaurant reviewer for The New York Times, called Smith & Wollensky "A steakhouse to end all arguments."
The first of three Eataly branches in New York City, seen in September 2010 Eataly in São Paulo, Brazil Eataly in Sherway Gardens, Toronto, Canada. In January 2007, Italian businessman Oscar Farinetti opened the first location of Eataly, [2] converting a closed vermouth factory in the Lingotto district of Turin.
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde [a] (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s.