The Parkwood Cafe's version featured butter-tender chunks of meat enfolded in a paprika-rich gravy served over noodles.
At our table the fresh blueberry mousse cake was the winner, just ahead of muranga-ju, this cafe's version of the ubiquitous chestnut-favored mont-blanc.
The menu has options like spinach salad with turkey bacon and light honey mustard dressing ($8.50) and the cafe's version of a sloppy Joe with turkey, low-fat Swiss cheese, coleslaw and homemade light Thousand Island dressing ($8), as well as breakfast sandwiches, soups, muffins and the like.
Even with market-bought ricotta, pasta with spring-garlic cream, roasted tomatoes and ricotta would be a lovely dish, but nowhere near as lovely as it was with the Cafe Murano version and its herb-and-garlic-scented creaminess.
This restaurant has a view of the ice skating rink, a perfect setting for a traditional hot chocolate topped with whipped cream, or try the adult version Cafe Coco Loco made with rum, and crème de coco.
In 1993, the first Cafe, a moderate-priced version of Spago, opened at Universal Studios.
The day we sat drinking koffie verkeerd -- the Dutch version of cafe au lait -- "The Mermaid," a double-masted old wood clipper, sailed into port, manned by local fishermen.
There's a scene in the 2012 time-travel thriller Looper, already over-referenced, in which the hero (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), sitting in a cafe with an older version of himself (Bruce Willis), asks how time travel works.
"SMOKEY JOE'S CAFE," a 50-minute version of the Broadway revue with songs by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, presented by Inside Broadway for the next three Saturdays and Sundays at 10 45 a.m. at the Lucille Lortel Theater, 121 Christopher Street, West Village.
