the jewel of the crown of Central park is closing

[chillyboi]

i can honestly say i was there & it was Magnificent!!!

http://www.tavernonthegreen.com

 

[irish1]

i can honestly say i was there & it was Magnificent!!!

http://www.tavernonthegreen.com

I always had great meals there. So sorry to hear that they are a victim of our economic downturn.

Is there any interest (at this writing) that someone may step in to keep them open?

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

I might have had a drink there with my husband...

 

[chillyboi]

rumor did have a few weeks ago that there was a buyer? we'll see!

i ate in this exact room featured !

 

[Yooper]

My understanding is the entity that actually owns the building declined to renew the lease to the current management. Food and service have become not too great of late and there have been legal problems.

I saw somewhere that it will reopen in the spring with a serious remodeling and new management.

The name is currently in litigation, too. Current operators claim they own the name, New York City disagrees. Tavern in the Park is a possibility for the new name.

From Wikipedia:
On August 28, 2009, the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation announced that it had declined to renew the restaurant's license, granting it instead to Dean Poll, operator of the Central Park Boathouse. The LeRoy management was required to cease operations and remove all furnishings from the location before January 1, 2010.[14]
In September 2009, the restaurant filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, located in New York City, citing the 2009 national financial crisis and the August 28, 2009 loss of the restaurant's operating license.[15] The rights to the name of the restaurant became an additional source of contention between the LeRoys and the city of New York during the bankruptcy court procedures in October 2009 after the LeRoys claimed the trademark was theirs while the city challenged them.[16] At the time the trademark was appraised at $19 million.[16] In November 2009, Poll registered a backup name with New York State: Tavern in the Park.[17]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tavern_on_the_Green

 

[chillyboi]

In any event. it's a sad loss to NYC

 

[Joshua_me]

Sounds like they were Tavern In The Red.

I always wanted to eat there, preferably with Liza, but alas...

Wasn't meant to be.

 

[bounder]

^ hehe. nicely done.

I got to eat there once about ten years ago, but I was way too young to fully appreciate it. A friend of mine had her batmitzvah reception there.

 

[Ryuukie]

OMG, that place was always packed. I never would have guessed. It was always fun to take someone there for the first time and watch his jaw drop.