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Remember the Old Tavern On The Green? How Ornate! How Indifferent!

28 April, 2014

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Central Park, Tavern on the Green, Warner LeRoy

Long-shuttered Central Park restaurant Tavern On The Green has finally reopened, bringing to mind my last meal there back in 2009, which I wrote about for the Observer: “It reminds me of Mrs. Havisham in Great Expectations, the grande dame who’s seen better days,” my perceptive spouse said, noting the fraying pink tablecloth covering our sloppily […]

One Final Meal at the Legendary Tavern on the Green

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7 February, 2009

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Central Park, food, Jennifer Oz LeRoy, restaurants, Tavern on the Green, Warner LeRoy

With the future of iconic Central Park restaurant Tavern on the Green very much in doubt, the missus and I head over for one last meal in the famous Crystal Room. It’s the same spot where the wife was seated nearly 17 years earlier, a doe-eyed teenager from Ohio, dining with her grandparents, on her first trip to New York. The place […]