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I eat out just to get out of the house but never sidestep the true value of a home cooked meal from scratch.
Why pay $100 bucks for one meal at any restaurant or food chain that with preparation can end up rewarding
you with a weeks worth of good eats. Plus......you are the only person to handle all the ingredients.
My husband grew up eating at the original place. The people who are nostalgic for it are probably the ones who remember the family, or ate in the first franchises when the food was good food made fresh, from their family recipes. I can't remember the last time I ate in one, but I definitely remember how good it was originally.
I eat out just to get out of the house but never sidestep the true value of a home cooked meal from scratch.
Why pay $100 bucks for one meal at any restaurant or food chain that with preparation can end up rewarding
you with a weeks worth of good eats. Plus......you are the only person to handle all the ingredients.
But how insensitive you are. Think of all the Spanish Speaking workers who are here working illegally. They need to take those food service jobs! USA citizens don't know how to make food, or do construction, only Spanish Speaking people do.
Actually...I never liked Sbarro's. Blech pizza. Though it reminds me of my high school days so there's some nostalgia...but not all that much.
Every day, it seems like New York City dies a little bit more: It seems to become harder and harder for small restaurateurs to hold on against the tide of fast casualization, and classic institutions close shop for reasons other than retirement. Historically important places like the Lenox Lounge get demolished. Dean & Deluca has been shriveling away. Barbuto is gone; just this weekend, City Bakery closed. And — take a seat for this one, please — Sbarro has closed its Times Square location after 23 years. In perhaps a sign of the times, the news passed without much notice, except in a release shared by QSR magazine, and a more recent thread on Reddit. It’s nothing but disrespect for a New York institution that manages to do the impossible of making Famous Famiglia look good.
I haven't been there for years, and they were certainly never a name on recommended pizza places, but I fondly associate them with the original idea of the Underground Gourmet and NYC on $20 a day when I was in my teens.
I didn't know that about City Bakery. Figured they were still going strong.
I didn't know that about City Bakery. Figured they were still going strong.
Me too. I was surprised to hear they were gone as well.
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