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THE TELEPHONE BAR & GRILL Located at 149 2nd Avenue on the fashionable and trendy East Side of Manhattan, this restaurant has an elegant ambiance. Formerly the Cafe Metro, in existence since the beginning of this century. It was frequented by Jack and Louise Reed, Emma Goldberg, Eugene O'Neill, Leon Trotsky, William Burroughs, Allan Ginzburg, and Jack Kerouac, among others. Converted in the 1970's, the entire facade is made up of English telephone booths. The austere original enviornment of the original cafe now features a full wet bar.The restaurant provides a simple, somewhat British fare, prepared with American quality food-stuffs. The Brunch Menu will provide you with a full and delicious breakfast, as well as an A La Carte Menu which offers a wonderful Char Grilled Hamburger and a terrific Grilled Chicken Breast Sandwich. The four salads which the Brunch Menu offers include the traditional Caesar, a great Smoked Trout & Smoked Salmon Salad and two vegetarian salads, the Waldorf Goat Cheese Salad and the Meschun Sald, wonderful fresh baby greens with a mustard vinaigrette dressing. The Dinner Menu begins with a variety of delicious appetizers, including the Fresh Salmon Cakes which are great and a wonderful Goat Cheese Bruschetta, which consists of garlic toasts with herbal goat cheese, green chili pesto and those great fresh baby greens for the Vegetarians among us.. The Salads are the same as the brunch menu with the addition of a fine Spinach Salad of fresh crispy bacon, mushrooms, egg, shallots, red onion tomato and croutons with the Grilled Chicken Breast and a delicious blue cheese dressing. Blackened Tuna, New England Scrod and New York Fish & Chips are the fish entrees which will round out the meal for you especially if you like fresh fish.Three great pies are available: Vegetarian Shephard's Pie, Shepherd's Pie, with ground beef but also topped with mashed potatoes, and Chicken Pot Pie, topped with a pastry shell. Fine snadwiches are available. We give THE TELEPHONE BAR &
GRILL 3 Arches For last week's review Click Here!
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