Long-closed NYC Restaurant Name - It's a Long Shot

Factual Questions
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I’ve seen Dopers come up with some pretty amazing answers to obscure questions before, but this is really a “needle in a haystack” situation.

I’m trying to recall the name of a restaurant I went to a few times back in the late '90s on the Upper East Side in NYC. It’s been closed since at least 2002. The details I remember:

[ul]
[li]It was a very romantic restaurant housed in a brownstone or townhouse[/li][li]It was above 72nd St. and below 95th St.[/li][li]It had a one-word name[/li][li]It wasn’t specifically ethnic (French, Italian, etc.)[/li][li]I THINK the name started with a D or a V, but that’s just a gut feeling[/li][li]It was almost certainly west of 2nd Ave.[/li][/ul]

I know this is next to impossible, but my brain won’t rest.

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I can’t help with an answer, but can you remember what you ate and any details about it? How about decor? Anything identifying about the dinnerware? Any other details about the restaurant whatsoever?

3

It was a white tablecloth place, with tables spread out among a few cozy rooms with one larger dining room. It was fairly fancy/upscale. I remember eating risotto, although it wasn’t technically an Italian restaurant.

4

“Long Shot” would indeed make for a pretty good name-Western themed and all that.

5

Was it Dove?

6

No, but it feels like it was similar to that.

7

I got it! It was called Demi, and it was at Madison and 93rd St. LurkerInNJ, you’re response triggered my memory. 4 letters, beginning with D… Thanks!

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Gotta love the Dope. When I sent him a link, a dear New Yorker friend of mine responded:

*I would have tried the Manhattan board of Chowhound:

http://chowhound.chow.com/boards

or:

Zagat Stories*

Tell us, what was your favorite meal there, and with whom did you have it?

9

Tell me about it. I half expected someone to pop in with the exact name within an hour. This place encourages high expectations.

Valentine’s Day 1998, first V-Day with my now wife. Part of the reason I’ve been trying to remember. (I could have asked her… but it’ll go over much better that I “remembered it” on my own.) I don’t remember the meal, except that it was very good, very romantic and we tried to go back in 2002 and it was closed.

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When I read the thread title, “long-closed” implied, to me, much longer ago than the late 90s. I knew that area back in the 60s.

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Well, I was young and single in Manhattan then; married with 3 kids in Charlotte, NC now, and it seems like ages ago…

12

So, you’re just a lying scumbag, using us to perpetuate your image? :stuck_out_tongue:

Not really ragging on your for this. I’d do it myself.