Here's what Zagat guide writes: "Sure, it's mainly a “tourist joint”, but this circa-1921 “showbiz institution” is touted as a Theater District “must-experience” thanks to its celeb caricatures on the walls and “Broadway stargazing” in the seats; if its Continental fare and career waiters seem “passionately outdated”, fans insist that's part of the “charm.”"
A review from YELP.
"A frozen in time classic due for a full remodel.
"Worst steak I can remember in a restaurant. Tough, chewy, bland, and not even an inch thick. Just awful. The chicken looked like a grey plastic simulation.
"Vegetables were terrific, including the mushroom infused mashed potatoes.
"Downstairs maître d' a cardboard cutout, upstairs checking his phone, so we had to wait. Waiter was exceptional.
"Have a drink maybe, but don't eat at this tired old relic."
OR
"We went after a show matinee on a Sunday evening. Place was packed. Very noisy but that was expected.
One of those places you go to once just to say you have been there.
The steak tartare was excellent. But everything else just o.k.
So many other choices in this city that never sleeps."
That reported, others felt differently, enough so that the average Yelp score was three-and-a-half stars. |
