The Russian Tea Room in New York City suffers as Ukraine invasion escalates

https://www.cnn.com/2022 ^ | March 5 2022 | Kunyi Kang

[Beowulf9]

New York (CNNBusiness)The Russian Tea Room is a 100-year-old New York City icon that has long drawn in locals and tourists alike. In its heyday, the restaurant hosted such luminaries as choreographer George Balanchine, artist Salvador Dali and composer Leonard Bernstein, and it was featured in the movies "Tootsie" and "Manhattan."

[Beowulf9]

It drew crowds who attended concerts at nearby Carnegie Hall, only steps away, or dined there after a Broadway show. But at lunchtime Thursday, the eatery was almost vacant, with a handful of customers sitting at only two of its 30 or so red leather banquettes. Despite its name, the Russian Tea room isn't Russian at all. It's actually owned by a financial group incorporated in New York state. It was opened in 1927 by, perhaps apocryphally, "White Russian expatriates who had fled the Bolsheviks," according to the restaurant's website. It has had a succession of US owners ever since. But that hasn't stopped protesters looking to boycott all things Russian, even if it's only a name and a cuisine.

[CondoleezzaProtege]

I heard “Russia House” in Austin is now just now House or something.

[CondoleezzaProtege]

https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/austins-russian-house-changes-name-in-honor-of-ukrainian-solidarity/

[Mears]

Madness.

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[InvisibleChurch]

Who knew ‘hitler’ wouldever have such close competition?

[Jane Long]

Agree.

Absolute madness.

[JoSixChip]

Wow! Cancel on a national level. The end is near.

[cgbg]

Anything could be next.

Anyone could be next.

The mob is loose, and madness has fallen upon the land.

[dfwgator]

Stupid Americans.

[stars & stripes forever]

They should have a reopening calling it the “I am not Russion Tearoom”.

[ThePatriotsFlag]

I thought it had closed many years ago. I’ll be darned. I loved that place, there was one like it in Boston too.

[lightman]

Rolling back the clock to the “good old days” of WWI when sauerkraut was renamed “liberty cabbage”.

It stinks.

[dowcaet]

All this Democrat “red baiting” of all things Russian is hilarious. These are the same people who were always sympathetic to the communist Soviet Union. We all remember when the DC lefties treated Mikhail Gorbachev like a damn rock star when he arrived for a visit to the nation’s capital in 1987. Democrats treated him as a “savior” who was going to save the world from that cowboy Ronald Reagan and a nuclear holocaust. How times have changed. Democrats now use their Russian buddies as scapegoats for their political miscues!

[hanamizu]

Rolling back the clock to the “good old days” of WWI when sauerkraut was renamed “liberty cabbage”.

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You don’t have to roll back nearly that far. Remember ‘freedom fries’?

[Tijeras_Slim]

We’re prone to such… recall Freedom Fries?

[cgbg]

The Democrats follow the 1960s radical rule:

“The issue is not the issue. The revolution is the issue.”

Many folks around here spend a lot of time chasing the squirrels and then wonder why they never catch any!

[lightman]

Call that global flip-flop a “great reset” or polar inversion.

[Meet the New Boss]

I seem to remember this same story in the NYC media every time something bad comes out of Russia.

It must be the job of the lowest intern, that when one of these events happens, to run over to the Russian Tea Room, pour out a bottle of vodka on the sidewalk and write it up by the evening deadline.

[Lisbon1940]

Boy, did those two movies suck? I can’t believe Sidney Pollack put himself in that scene.

[cowboyusa]

Actually watching Tootsie now. Since we are basically back to the fall of 83, mabeywomen can start wearing that hearstyle again.