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1. Henry Clapp was the editor of The Saturday Press in 1858. Under an 1850 hotel at 645 Broadway was Pfaff's (1856), a famous restaurant where Henry Clapp ended up the first King of Bohemia. When in town Walt Whitman hardly missed a night in Charlie Pfaff's cave. The glassed-over vaults in the sidewalks added light to this restaurant. What section of this Broadway and Bleecker building was the restaurant located in ?
6. Old Homestead burgers are now available (only till 3 pm) at this 1868 meatpacking district American steak house at 59 9th Avenue. The burger at Peter Lugers are cheaper and in my opinion better, but the atmosphere and personal memories of the Homestead overide all. What kind of beef is in the Burgers at the Old Homestead ?
7. In 1823 a small bake shop opened on east side of William Street, just a few doors south of Fulton Street. In 1827 it became one of Americas oldest restaurants. What was the name of NYC's first fine-dining establishment ?
9. Vincent's restaurant opened at 234 W 44th Street on March 5, 1927. Its caricatures of celebrities on its walls looked out on the home of the Cheese Club. Vincent's first restaurant was in 1921 at 146 West 44th Street, it was called the Little Restaurant. What famous restaurant was the home to these Cheese Club lunches ?
11. A 1917 French restaurant at 1 West, 67th Street features the Howard Chandler Christy nudes called the wood nymphs. Edith Hyde the first Miss America was selected at the Chu Chin Chow Ball at this famous cafe in 1919. A daily 3 course prix-fixe dinner is just $35. The hotel on top of this cafe has a dumbwaiter for residents of the upper hotel rooms to send down raw food to be cooked to their desires. A 20 ton ice machine pumped icewater into each icebox in the hotel. What was the name of this famous French NYC restaurant ?
14. The Plaza Hotel's Hector Boiardi, phoneticly changed his name to (Chef) Boyardee for easier spelling & selling his thick tomato sauce. His restaurant Il Giardino d’Italia in Cleveland (1929), merged with American Home Foods. In Ohio, what kind of bottles did Hector first sell his sauce in ?
16. An 1870 sheepfold became a world famous NYC restaurant called Tavern on the Green thanks to Robert Moses's hatred of the Central Park Casino. New Yorkers called the casino Jimmy Walker's Versailles, and Robert Moses called for its demolition. Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia opened Tavern on the Green on October 20, 1934. What is the name of its glass garden which overlooks the Sheep Meadow ?
18. First located on Ann Street, Sweeney's restaurant moved to 66 Chatham Street by Duane street in 1850. Sweeney's most famous customer was Captain Isaiah Rynders a rich gambler who led street gangs. Rynders opened a Five Points gang hangout called the Empire Club at 25 Park Row. The Empire Club was the criminal subordinate of what hall ?
20. A famous restaurant in Coney Island once paid bums (who the employees dressed up in medical attire) to sit at their counters to look busy. When customers who came off the train saw all the Doctors eatting there, they figured it was safe to eat. This establishment even put up a sign reading - If doctors eat our hot dogs, you know they're good! What was the name of this Coney Island landmark ?
21. A NYC Steakhouse has the largest collection of hard clay churchwarden pipes in the world. Members of its Pipe Club included John Barrymore, Buffalo Bill Cody, Albert Einstein, General Douglas MacArthur, J.P. Morgan, Will Rogers, Teddy Roosevelt, Babe Ruth, Adlai Stevenson, and Stanford White. In 1905 Lillie Langtry sued the restaurant for its mens only policy and won. What is the name of this still standing (72 West 36th street)steakhouse ?
22. The finest food from Italy's Piedmont region is at 321 W 46th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues in NYC. It is the first restaurant in America to be awarded landmark status by Locali Storici d'Italia. What 4 star 1906 restaurant is NYC's oldest establishment that is still owned by its founding family?
23. A grocery started in 1897 by a man named Gennaro. In 1905 Gennaro created America's first full-fledged pizzeria by selling tomato pies down the street from the current restaurant at 32 Spring Street. Joe's Tomato Pies opened in Trenton, New Jersey in 1910. Until 1924 Gennaro's NYC pizzeria once employeed Totonno's founder Anthony (Totonno) Pero. What was Gennaro's last name ?
24. At the turn of the 20th century (1900) Mott Street had the following Chinese restaurants: Imperial, Port Arthur (9-11 Mott), Tuxedo, Chinese Quick Lunch and the Hon Hung Low (11 Mott). On Doyer Street was the Chatham, and Pell street had the Savoy, the Oriental and the Mon Lay Won (24 Pell) restaurants. What kind of Chinese food is now found in many restaurants on East Broadway ?
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1. William S Pontin ran Pontin's at 46 Franklin street. This British restaraunteer called Father Bill, first worked in the Union Club's kitchen at the corner of White and Broadway. Pontin's was a favorite restaurant of the Criminal Court workers in 1900. Pontin's had the best roasted WHAT in NYC ?
2. One If By Land, Two If By Sea restaurant is at 17 Barrow Street.It could be haunted by the daughter of Aaron Burr, who owned the old carriage house (between 7th Avenue and West 4th street). What was her first name ?
3. Edward's restaurant (1824-1865) was at 5 to 11 Chatham Street (now Park Row), it had a side-door entrance at 5 Ann Street. This was NYC's most famous resort in the days of the Park Theatre. Customers included Washington Irving and Femimore Cooper. What was this name of this restaurant ?
4. A restaurant founded in 1882 at 110-112 East 14th Street that was once a German beer garden was bought with money from William Steinway. What was the name of this famous NYC restaurant whose site is now a New York University dormitory ?
5. Thomas Downing was the African-American owner of Downing's Oyster House. Downing's restaurant was part of the Underground Railroad at 23 Wall Street at the SE corner of WHAT street ?
8. NYC pizza has become famous worldwide. But one pizza joint (started by 2 brothers from Roio del Sangro in the Abruzzi region of Italy) on 6th Avenue and 11th street has caused a name war among NYC pizza restaurants. What is the most common name for a NYC pizza place ?
10. Dozen of Horn & Hardarts, Schrafft's (where Kirk Douglas one worked as a waiter), Howard Johnson's and Chock Full O'Nuts once dotted the NYC landscape. Old NYC Schrafft locations were at 61 5th Avenue(SE corner of 13th, also once a Brew Burger and the Lone Star), 153 East 79th street (just east of Lexington), 5th Avenue and 38th street, 2519 Broadway( SW corner) at West 94th Street, 51st Street (north side) just east of Sixth Avenue, 1237 Avenue of the Americas, 57th street and Third Avenue (NE corner), 58 and Madison, Broad street, Maiden Lane and Fulton street. Macy's now sits on the site of the first NYC Schrafft's. In 1978 the Riese Organization bought and destroyed Schrafft's. What is Schrafft's known for now ?
12. 13 buffet lunch system restaurants were located in NYC at 78 Walker Street, 45 John Street., 95 Liberty Street, 69 Pine Street, 22 New Street, 37 Broad Street, 46 Broad Street, 36 Beaver Street, 90 Beaver Street, 11 Murray Street, 354 Broadway at Hudson Terminal and 625 Broadway by Houston. The first NYC buffet was at 7 New street, it opened without tables to men only on Sept. 4, 1885. The name of this chain that was America's first self service restaurant was WHAT Buffet ?
13. In 1898 William and Samuel Childs were innovators the cafeteria lunchroom. The tray and the tray line service at their buffet counters at 130 Broadway made them famous (as well as their immaculate tile interiors). Cafeteria-style restaurant chains included Bickford's, Apple House, K&W, Britling, Blue Boar, Luby's, MCL Cafeterias and Morrison's Cafeteria (now Piccadilly Cafeterias). Kruger's cafeteria in Chicago started the cafeteria craze. What kind of Swedish restaurant did John Kruger get the idea for his cafeteria ?
15. A 1888 cafeteria-styled deli off Ludlow street serves around 12,000 hot dogs per week. Order yourself at the counter and tip the sandwich maker if you want a bigger pile of corned beef (or whatever meat you request). Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton have noshed at this famous deli that was featured in the films When Harry met Sally and Donnie Brasco. What was the name of the oldest Jewish deli in the world ?
17. Ben Wenberg was a sea captain who wandered into NYC's first fancy restaurant at 23 William Street in 1876, and created a dish using lobster, cream, rum and cayenne peppers. The owner named John swapped letters on his name as a slap in the face when they parted ways, and the name stuck as Lobster WHAT ?
19. Taken from a German idea in Berlin, Horn & Hardart opened 180 coin-operated self serving restaurants in NYC and Philadelphia. Choices included Macaroni and Cheese, Boston Baked Beans, Mashed Turnips, Chicken Pot Pie, Salisbury steak, Creamed Spinach, Lemon Meringue Pie, Coconut Cream Pies, Rice Pudding and Chocolate Pudding. The last one at 200 East 42nd Street closed in 1991, others were at 57 and 6th, Times Square, 104th and Broadway & 38 St. between Broadway and 7th Avenue. The first Horn & Hardart at 818 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia opened in 1902, but NYC's first Horn & Hardart opened on July 7, 1912 at 1557 Broadway between 46th and 47th Streets (some say Broadway and 14th street was first). The 36th street Horn & Hardart at 968 Sixth Avenue (#604 before 6th Ave was renumbered in 1929) opened in 1915. What were these inexpensive vending machine cafeterias called?
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