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Maybe bizzness has a different definition than business?

 

Genes Simmons?

 

Thought the same thing.

You'd have more credibility calling McSorley's the best bar in New York. You'd be wrong, but at least you could make an argument.

McSorely's would be a cliche choice. I don't know a single New Yorker who would have called Elaine's the best bar in the City.

 

I always thought that the Blarney Stone was best bar in NY

 

It's been 11 years since I lived in NYC, so I don't know anything new.

For a burger & a beer, I loved the Corner Bistro at W. 4th St. and Jane St. I also liked JG Mellon's on the upper East Side.

 

I'm pretty certain the subhead to the piece called Elaine's the best bar in the city, not the writer. I'm going to guess Wright did not pen that subhead.

 

In my experiences with Wright, he has been quite the opposite of phony, and he doesn't know me from Adam.

 

I liked Thompson's story on Elaine's, especially the part about meeting Seth Wickersham's daughter for the first time.

But honestly felt the piece by Kevin Van Valkenberg (linked here by Jones, I think?) was far superior. Maybe because Thompson's was the third or fourth take on this story, maybe because it feels like Grantland is cranking out too many me-me-me pieces, I don't know. But I really liked what KVV did with it--walking past the place, unsure whether or not to go in--and I was surprised that others are still sharing their version of the story after it's already been done.

 

I did too. KVV's story had more of an innocent wonderment to it.

 

Wondering whether to go in the door...wouldn't that have been Thompson?

 

I thought that was McGregor

 

I stand corrected . It was Van Valk:


"The embarrassing truth about the night I went to Elaine's for the first time, a night I consider one of the most important nights of my life, is that I almost didn't go. Not that I almost didn't travel to New York. That I almost didn't walk through the door. That night in September, I stood outside Elaine's on the 2nd Avenue sidewalk, staring up at the black and gold sign for a few minutes, glancing in the window every few seconds. Then I kept walking for reasons I'm not sure I can explain."