Support Fraunces Tavern!

We went out to celebrate a combined anniversary and the wife's birthday last night. Every year we go to the place where we were married Fraunces Tavern in downtown New York on the corner of Pearl and Broad Streets. This year we went on the wife's birthday since it was so hard for us to get out of the store. Plus we got to watch the Yankee game!

Paul the manager had been running the joint for a while and was the assistant manager when we were married there. He was telling us how tough business is downtown. A lot of the big brokerage companies have moved to midtown or Jersey and the back office work at home revolution has really hurt them. Also the expense account lunch has sort of become a thing of the past especially as the blue nosed puritans look up every executives asshole over how he spends. Without taking into account that those business dinners and lunches pay a lot of peoples salaries including chefs and waiters and bus boys. Not to mention the food vendors and liquor distributors.

The Fraunces Tavern Museum is also a treat for anyone who has any interest in American History. In fact this month they are displaying one of the only four existing copies of the Magna Carta on loan from the British Museum. Plus all the great colonial artifacts in their normal exhibits. Well worth a trip downtown and you can have a great lunch besides.

I have been very remiss in not supporting them more than I have and we are going to try to get there at least once a month or every six weeks or so. It is a great dining experience and an important part of the fabric of New York. If you are ever in the city please give it a try.