Veselka is celebrating its 60th anniversary … in doing do, the restaurant at 144 Second Ave. (at East Ninth Street) is turning prices on some items back to 1954.
This will be available for 54 minutes on a day and time that the restaurant will announce on the Veselka Twitter or Facebook accounts.
Here's the available menu for those 1954 prices…
H/T Eater
My guess it will be 3:01am till :55 past... There would be hordes of zombie like groaning 'borscht' instead of brains...
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Will it include takeout?
I remember when the 2nd Avenue Deli on 10th Street celebrated their whatever anniversary, charging prices from their opening day. The lines snaked around the block. PS: I only stand on lines at Kennedy Airport and at the DMV...never for food and never voluntarily.
ReplyDeleteMy book, A Ukrainian Melody, Sort Of..., covers the neighborhood in the early 1960s, with a raucous wedding at the Uki Home at the end. Still at the publishers, should be out shortly, hopefully.
ReplyDeleteCute promo idea, but seriously, would it kill them to do it for the full anniversary day?
ReplyDeleteonlythejodi, you're absolutely right. Barney Greengrass, an Upper West Side Russ & Daughters establishment, did the same thing about 20 years ago for the same reason and it ran all day.
ReplyDeleteIs that the entire menu? Not exactly worth the stampede.
ReplyDeleteWhat a stunt to get people to like their fb page. Eesh.
ReplyDeleteIs there a more overrated establishment in NYC
ReplyDelete"Is there a more overrated establishment in NYC"
ReplyDeleteYes, Momofuku Ko.
11:31 overrated? Anytime I bring up Veselka someone will chime in about how the borscht is better at Little Poland or Stage, or that Veselka pierogi are crap compared to First Ave's or Ukrainian National's or whatever, or that Ukrainians don't even call them pierogi. But yeah Veselka are a little bit precious and in love with themselves I guess. I still think their soups are the tits.
ReplyDeleteJeepers, though I've missed Leshko's for decades -- long ago it was where I went when I went out to eat once a week -- I've long loved Veselka and in fact considered its imperfections and annoyingnesses specific important features of its identity, not things one would wish to change.
ReplyDeleteA small example being the craziness about getting your check. May it never change. And as far as I'm concerned, the celebratory cheap menu hits all the high spots except maybe the blueberry muffin with a lot of pulverized blueberries in it. Virginia Kelley