Supreme Macaroni Factory - Anybody else remember this place? (construction, inspectors)

[Mightyqueen801]

I was 20 years old when I got a secretarial job in "the city". I ended up in a construction office consisting of 40 engineers and construction inspectors and 4 secretaries. Some of the guys used to take us out to lunch on Fridays, and this was the most popular place. I lived 30 miles NW in NJ, but it was a different world. I'd never eaten real Italian food or even gone out to eat much at all at that point.

I loved this place. The tables were rickety, there was a cat roaming around the dining room, and there were carafes of red wine that turned your teeth purple. We would spend 2 or 3 hours there and eat this delicious food and drink wine and then stagger back to the office.

It's gone now, demolished. But it lives on the back of Billy Joel's "The Stranger" album cover.

Billy Joel - The Stranger - Album Back Cover Location

Just wondering if anyone else knew the place.

[Kefir King]

Oh yeah. I loved it and went often when catching a show. I even took my mother and sister there when they visited, CHrist, 30 yers ago. (Me Big Spender ) But they loved it and it was convenient to get them back on a bus.


Was it Ninth Avenue just below Port Authority? 38th-39th? I remember the checkered oilcloth tablecloths. You went through the storefront filled with breads and pastas to the small restaurant behind.

[HuntingtonGuy]

Leave a dry pasta and cheese order up front, go through the curtains and you were in a different time and place. The food was always excellent...ok, the wine may have influenced that, but the cat I didn’t love. He was too friendly/comfortable and when he went under the tables it skeeved me a little.
After lunch, go back out the front, pick up the bag the counter guy packed with my order and off I’d go.
They were a true slice of NYC history, sad when they closed. Sometimes progress isn’t such a good thing after all.

[Mightyqueen801]

Originally Posted by Kefir King

Oh yeah. I loved it and went often when catching a show. I even took my mother and sister there when they visited, CHrist, 30 yers ago. (Me Big Spender ) But they loved it and it was convenient to get them back on a bus.


Was it Ninth Avenue just below Port Authority? 38th-39th? I remember the checkered oilcloth tablecloths. You went through the storefront filled with breads and pastas to the small restaurant behind.

Yes, it was. I worked at the PABT from 1979 to 1981.

A "non-member" recently gave me a rep for my post above, which is what made me look at this thread again.

[Mr.Retired]

It's 6 am and this post is making me hungry.

Running to the Bakery in an hour or two.
Italian Bread should be just coming out of the oven............mmmmmmmmmm....Bonissimo !