I am trying to find a restaurant in Manhattan, and all of my searches including step by step using Google Street View have failed.
I ate there more than ten years ago, and on a recent visit walked right by it and failed to make adequate note of where it was located. Here’s everything I know:
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[li]Midtown, around the 30s.[/li][li]Pretty sure it’s on one of the avenues - Park, 5th, Madison.[/li][li]Is fronted along its whole length by tall wooden shutters that can be opened to the interior of the place.[/li][li]Is a grill/tavern kind of place.[/li][li]Had fantastic french onion soup and Trappist ale on tap.[/li][/ul]
WordMan, I’m pretty sure it’s not on 3rd, as I’ve rarely wandered that vertical. (Looks at street view) Nope. I’m pretty sure it’s not a chain, either.
Hmm. Maybe. Right location; when we passed it recently, it was on a walk from Angelo & Maxie’s to GCT and that’s on the path. I don’t recall the big red awnings, though; I’m reasonably sure the front is a long wall of wooden shutters, right on the sidewalk.
Close, and I recognize that place. But I’m about 50% sure it was on an avenue and very sure it’s most distinctive feature is a long, long front of wooden shutters - at least 50 or 60 feet.
Maybe. It looks right in a number of ways but on checking, it opened in March 2001, which I am pretty sure is six months to a year after my fondly remembered visit.
It may be that the restaurant I am thinking of no longer exists and Artisanal is close enough in style to confuse me.
