The floor behind the counter at the Splendid Deli Restaurant in the Fordham section of the Bronx is slick — spilled coffee, dripped oil — and the line is growing.
This splendid Goan restaurant is about 10 miles from the heart of tourist Bombay, halfway to the airport, and our midweek dinner there on the way to our night flight made a delicious and diverting farewell to the city.
To the people who later made fun of Fun City, someone who could be greatly cheered by the opening of the Park was a typical Lindsay enthusiast — a college-educated Manhattan liberal whose idea of an urban problem was an increase in private-school tuition or some difficulty in finding a splendid Chinese restaurant that someone else had not already discovered….
Sensitively restored rooms are replete with high-vaulted ceilings, exposed brickwork and patterned fabrics, and there's also a splendid little restaurant on the premises (Calle Boix 4; from £90).
Pound mezcal at Guelaguetza, the splendid Oaxacan restaurant actually in Koreatown, or have soju for breakfast at Biergarten a few blocks north?
I thought about that soup the other night when I was having dinner at Spring, a splendid new restaurant in the 1898 Douglas Building a few blocks south of City Hall.
The old neon Beacon sign, left over from the laundry that was in this space before it was colonized by Kazuto Matsusaka's late, splendid fusion restaurant, still shines overhead.
Lou and Sharlyn Pasquale, local organic growers who also supply Fresno's splendid Echo restaurant, had tasty Zenese tomatoes, dark red, lobed Piedmontese heirlooms good for salads and sauces, as well as foot-long, serpentine tromboncino squashes ("little trumpets") with bulbous ends.
All his characters eat (or hoard or starve), at provincial family tables, sordid Parisian tables d'hôte, splendid Parisian restaurants.
