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In 1978, Wienerwald purchased the 273-restaurant Lum's chain from the former owner of Kentucky Fried Chicken, John Y. Brown Jr. [1] The chain's inability to market its outlets as providers of chicken (rather than overcoming the US misconception that "Wienerwald" was a wiener chain), plus the huge growth in 1978 brought enormous debts.
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Tom's Restaurant was the locale that inspired Suzanne Vega's 1987 song "Tom's Diner." [2]Later, its exterior was used as a stand-in for the fictional Monk's Café in the 1989–1998 television sitcom Seinfeld, where comedian Jerry Seinfeld's eponymous character and his friends regularly convened to dine.
The restaurant is one of the settings of Hubert Selby, Jr.'s short story "Hi Champ," which appears in the 1986 book Song of the Silent Snow; The restaurant is mentioned, as background, three times in E. L. Doctorow's 1989 novel Billy Bathgate. The restaurant is mentioned in Blue Bloods, season 2 episode 5 A night on the town.
[28] [29] Ali Barker was the original executive chef for the hotel's restaurant. [30] Originally, the restaurant was known as Restaurant Charlotte, which offered both full-service meals and afternoon tea. [27] When the hotel passed under Millennium ownership, the restaurant space became the Bugis Street Brasserie and Bar, serving Singaporean ...
The Hotel Belleclaire (also the Belleclaire Hotel) is a hotel at 2175 Broadway, on the corner with West 77th Street, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. Constructed between 1901 and 1903 as one of several apartment hotels along Broadway on the Upper West Side, the Belleclaire was one of the first large buildings designed by ...
Family-owned Pescatore restaurant, a neighborhood favorite near downtown West Palm Beach, offers a menu of Italian classics and house-made sourdough bread and pizza.
Lindy's was two different deli and restaurant chains in Manhattan, New York City.The first chain, founded by Leo "Lindy" Lindemann, operated from 1921 to 1969. [1] [2] [3] In 1979, the Riese Organization determined that the Lindy's trademark had been abandoned, and opened new restaurants, the last of which closed in February 2018.