Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Portrait of George Frideric Handel is a 1756 portrait painting by the English artist Thomas Hudson depicting the German composer George Frideric Handel. [1] [2] Long resident in Britain Handel was the foremost composer in the country/ He was noted for his coronation anthems and his 1741 oratorio Messiah amongst his many works. He is shown in ...
The Hungarian Pastry Shop is a café and bakery in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It is located at 1030 Amsterdam Avenue between West 110th Street (also known as Cathedral Parkway) and West 111th Street, across the street from the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
Ratner's was founded in 1905 by Jacob Harmatz and his brother-in-law Alex Ratner, who supposedly flipped a coin to decide whose name would be on the sign. [1] Ratner sold his share in the restaurant to Harmatz in 1918, and it remained in the Harmatz family from then on.
Café Nicholson (originally at 147 East 57th St., and later at 323 East 58th Street) was a New York City restaurant that operated from 1948 to 1999. The establishment became a gathering place for members of the artistic, literary and cultural elite.
George Frideric Handel is reported to have had a great love for painting, and until his eyesight failed him, he enjoyed viewing collections of pictures that were for sale. [1] He owned a large art collection consisting of at least seventy paintings and ten prints, [ 1 ] including landscapes; ruins; hunting, historical, marine and battle scenes ...
The Jekyll & Hyde Club was a theme restaurant owned by Eerie World Entertainment [1] in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The name and theme derive from Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson 's 1886 Victorian gothic novel Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde .
The Kiev Restaurant (also known as the Kiev Diner or simply The Kiev) was a Ukrainian restaurant located in the East Village section of New York City.. Founded in 1978 [1] by Soviet emigrant to the United States Michael Hrynenko (1954–2004), the site was the former location of Louis Auster's Candy Shop, who was one of the original creators of the egg cream.
Café des Artistes was a fine restaurant at 1 West 67th Street in Manhattan. New York City. It was owned by George Lang, who closed the restaurant in early August 2009 and announced later that month that the restaurant would remain closed permanently. [1] His wife, Jenifer Lang, had been the managing director of the restaurant since 1990. [2]