Coco, having met him in the tavern, rolls up to his country estate, where he breeds Thoroughbreds and misspends the family wealth.
Or the day in June 1953 that a pig discovered outside a Bronx tavern ended up in a cellblock after a nearly two-hour police chase.
Tom Colicchio, the chef and an owner of Gramercy Tavern, picked up a Beard award in the general category for his "Think Like a Chef" (Clarkson Potter).
Battersby sounds like an appropriately British name for a place with such decorous service, but, in fact, it refers to the street in Philadelphia on which Joseph Ogrodnek, a chef and co-owner, formerly of Gramercy Tavern, grew up.
And once you've finished shopping and eating head for the Golf Tavern, pick up a couple of clubs and – no matter how rubbish or drunk you are – it's fun to hit a ball around Bruntsfield Links, the original home of golf.
On the Thursday before Halloween, Jim Norris, co-owner of Denver art and music venue 3 Kings Tavern, woke up to a small bite on his backside and didn't think much of it.
Located on Baltimore's historic Inner Harbor, this "modern American tavern" cooks up "Eastern seaboard classics" like bourbon steak burgers and lobster pot pie in/on their hearth oven and live-fire grill, while outside the 85-seat patio (dubbed Wit on the Water) offers guests views of the harbor.
A year or two of pleading, lies, late-night phone calls from the corner tavern, hang-ups, resolutions, backsliding, banishments, scolding, apologies and despair follow.
It has also announced the purchase of eight freehold, managed pubs from Punch Taverns, up 0.5p at 83.6p, for £15.9m.
