Posted on 02/08/2022 7:59:48 AM PST by mylife
The restaurant business is a tough one, and the COVID-19 pandemic almost all but destroyed it. Even before closures became mandatory, restaurants came and went with regularity. Statistics on restaurant failure rates vary widely. Oneestimatesuggests that up to 90% of independent eating places close within their first year of operation.
Unmanageable rent increases, changes in customer demographics or consumer tastes, fires or the effects of natural disasters, and the deaths and divorces (or simply retirement) of owners are among the many reasons that even thriving eating places fail.< P>
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Fraunces Tavern in NYC may not be the oldest, but still a great place where George Washington gave his retirement speech to his officers. Also in Miami Florida, Tobacco Road. The oldest bar in Miami. It had hidden stairways in the back during the speakeasy days. Jazz upstairs and Blues downstairs. Liquor license 001 in Dade County. Two of my favorites for what it’s worth.
Antoine’s was the best. in NOLA My dad was a successful restaurateur in Chicago. Every Easter vacation, we’d drive straight down the map to NOLA, where my beloved grandmother lived. We stopped at all the same places on the way. I wonderful little hotel with excellent food was in Southern IL and waiters were all Black. They were always delighted to see us again. Next night we stopped some tiny motel in Norther MS, and got fabulous grits with fried egg on top. No other place had the same stuff.
Of course, we went to Antoine’s in NOLA. Owner always remembered us and we ordered exactly what he recommended that night.
BUT my dad’s favorite restaurant in the world was Trilby’s a small place in Ocean Springs, MS, that looked like a little house. Owner was a delightful little old lady who absolutely loved my dad like a son. His mom died when he was 5, so he loved her like a mother.
My dad’s best advice on food: “Buy the best you can afford and do as little to it as possible. Food is good.”
So that’s how I cook. Zero recipes.
Cool!
we had secret stairs to secret rooms in my old vfw.
good chow too
The rolls or biscuits!
Yep, on the Wikipedia list, that is. Fraunces Tavern is the oldest standing structure in Manhattan (1762).
My closest Aunt worker management of the Sheraton almost her entire career till she opened a travel agency in the 80s
She rose thru the ranks there and almost reached the top
Back then besides the Fairmont it was the Mac daddy
I’d visit from Jackson Mississippi frequently and go to work with her and roam the properties between the connected buildings
The observation deck on the southland building
Sanger Harris
Titches
And so on
I remember an underground deli nearby for lunch
Pastrami yum
Dallas was my big city
North Park and Old Town
We lived in a garage apt on turtle creek
Rich ole lady landlord
I’d watch tv with her
Huge house
Mother would walk me along the creek path
And lower McKinney was stil houses
And the Carruths still had cows at park lane and central xpy
That’s long gone lol
That there be funny
C107
Just ignore the Joe Biden photo. Homemade pastas, eggplant parmigiana, beans & greens, Sarcone's sesame seed bread, large variety of southern Italian homestyle cuisine—best on the east coast, including New York. Family owned for generations.
One of the pieces of Americana that the interstate highways destroyed were roadhouses. I recall family road trips through the South and meals at Howard Johnsons were as corporate is it got.
Everywhere else was a restaurant steeped in years of tobacco smoke, coffee stained tables and friendly waitresses who called everybody “Hon”.
The food was always good and the pies were outstanding.
And there was always a glass case with cigars at the cash register and accommodating cashiers who would give a kid an empty cigar box when asked.
I miss those places. My favorite was one located around Alexandria, LA. It was already a divided four lane highway in the 60’s and the median was lined with pecan trees. Good times.
Salem Tavern in Winston-Salem, NC opened in 1784.
I loved Ho Jos!
thanks mate.
Hey Kehoe!......Good to hear from you!
We always enjoy the Tampa, Sarasota area in your part of the peninsula:)
Don’t get there too much.......last spring we stayed a few days and revisited the Edison home and surroundings........always pleasant.
But oh my the traffic was so bad going home that we literally crawled .....took us such a long time.
So our favorite Columbia is in St.Augustine.......it’s beautiful, elegant like Ybor......and we have reason to travel there more often.....Only takes 2-1/2 hours
Dallas was the mac daddy.
In the 60’s and 70’s I took their bus system everywhere; from Town East to Fair Park to White Rock Lake and all over.
The underground shops in downtown Dallas are still some of the best places to walk and keep cool during the summer.
I used to visit the original JFK assassination museum in West End, but it has gone mainstream now, but still fun to visit.
The only real improvement in downtown Dallas is the addition of the Dallas World Aquarium. It is awesome, and the whole West End is great.
Closing the downtown Library broke my heart. Greatest place in the world for a bibliophile teenager.
Have you ever tried Ken’s Steakhouse in Amber, OK?
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