The interior’s all changed - probably to keep overenthused fans from begging for that one table. Club sandwich was good. Waiter took no shit and is the first stereotypical no-shit-taking New Yorker I’ve run into. City!
Oh oh oh and I got a pollo bao (Vietnamese pita bread taco) at Bauhous in the Lower East Side. Friends, I regret that I did not buy the house special - the Chairman Bao. Alas, I wanted (semi) healthy chicken.
Another place from my childhood. “Swallow’s Nest” mini-castle on the Black Sea. I remember taking a ferry to it from Yalta where we were staying and...