Saturday, January 29, 2011

This headline says it all

From the Post today.

Bloomberg doubts Tavern on the Green should reopen, sees restaurants like Shake Shack as future

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

so crazy! I was just thinking about this because Ghostbusters was on last night. I'm so glad I got to go there with my dad and all my sisters on a daddy daughter trip, it was so beautiful

Andrew said...

Sounds good to me. Tavern had bad food and was an eyesore tourist trap. Shake Shack has great food and everyone can get some use of it.

Anonymous said...

My eyes bulged and my brain screamed when I read the headline.
-H

Anonymous said...

Have you ever eaten at TOTG? Lovely atmosphere but terrible food. Shake Shake really is better.

Anonymous said...

For everyone who's dissing the old restaurant's food; Trump is thinking of buying the place and rehauling the menu so.. he'll probably get a better menu in.

blue glass said...

tavern's food might have been bad
but the place was beautiful, the stained glass, the garden, and they had a small, nice bar.
luchows was beautiful too, and had awful food.
places like this will never be duplicated. can't be.
tourist trap? half the city is a tourist trap.
and i don't understand how folks can think shake shack is good. i found it to serve one of the most dreadful burgers around. nice idea, food in pretty park. for the prices at shake shack the food could be much better.
if this is what bloomberg thinks we need our city is more trouble than i thought.

EV Grieve said...

Yeah, TOTG was a tourist trap with expensive and rather marginal food... Yet it was an iconic part of NY for some 75 years ... John Lennon had his 38th birthday party there!

Uh, anyway... I'm really not trying to romanticize TOTG... Still, I'm not a fan of the ongoing Shake Shacking of America and Bloomberg's vision for NYC. Is this really the best idea for the space?

http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2010/11/shack-effect.html

Anonymous said...

May 21 2011 the whole worlds shacks will be a shaking as the globalists shake the entire world with the great haarp earthquake killing billions, then obamageddon world war, oct 21 2011 anihilation of planet earth

Marty Wombacher said...

The lights at Christmas time at Tavern on the Green were spectacular. The place had a nice atmosphere and so-so food. It was an historical slice of New York and a restaurant. The Shake Shack is a hamburger stand. And Bloomberg is an idiot.

Anonymous said...

Yeah, come on...
More Donald Trump! That's what this city needs!

BOOO! small, high quality, establishments that everybody can afford and partake.

Jeremiah Moss said...

people care too much about food these days. restaurants are more than just food.

http://www.shutupfoodies.com/

Anonymous said...

Awesome J M!
That URL looks delicious itself!
I'll add it to my bookmarks, because I don't have enough blogs where I can read comments from whiney little bitches, moaning and groaning about shit.

Anonymous said...

Shake Shack was 'exploring' the possibility of leasing the 1st Street Rat Park (32 E. 1st) last year- but the local residents nixed it...watch what happens after BMW Guggenheim finishes tidying up that space next summer...Shake Shack redux...

Laura Goggin Photography said...

I don't care whether the food is good or bad - we need to put a stop to private restaurants in PUBLIC parks, Bloomberg is already allowing holiday markets and 'gourmet' food carts. He's willing to sell off our public park land to the highest bidder.

glamma said...

F*CK SHAKE SHACK
F*CK BLOOMBERG

He should be forced to sit in a shake shack for 7 straight days being force-fed extra-rare burgers by fat midwestern tourists.