I might have spent some of my tip money on at least one fun thing outside of necessities, and the experience gave me hundreds of words of copy more than the number of hours I hustled or dwindled on shifts, depending on the weather. I’m a fraction of a chip from the ever-melting iceberg of NYC’s august recent restaurant history. My attachment to a special place might make me just slightly special, too. A very little bit, considering that I only worked there for a blip around 2008, and the venue famously hosted luminaries like Suzanne Vega and Jeff Buckley on its basement stage, plus innumerable aspirants, musical and otherwise, on its front-of-house floor (though, for the record, probably not Lady Gaga ) in its four-plus decades on the block.Ĭornelia’s appeal to me is likely apparent.
“We,” obviously includes a little bit of me. Cornelia, or, “cafe!,” as we used to answer the phone, ran from 1977-2019. In public documents, it’s pitched as izakaya-style with Japanese American fusion menus in an intimate setting. Like a lot of people, those coordinates are permanently embossed in my cerebral address book-a Keith McNally Liquor Bar that my friend Mark Byrne canilly called “McNally land for the everyman” in his own of more than a few eulogies the spring of its demise.įarther west in the left village, a new operation by Uchū Hospitality (Sushi on Jones, Don Wagyu) will also occupy the legendary Cornelia Street Cafe’s number 29 this coming summer. The cinematic corner space on the Lower East Side has been empty since Schiller’s closed in 2017 after 14 years in the neighborhood.
Sometime soon, 131 Rivington Street will turn into a Shake Shack. Last month, Food & Drink Editor and Critic Amber Sutherland-Namako argued that your regular spot is sometimes better than dining at the ‘best restaurant’. They publish each Wednesday so you’re hearing from us each week. “Let Me Tell You” is a series of columns from our expert editors about NYC living, including the best things to do, where to eat and drink, and what to see at the theater.
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