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Waverly Inn

The Last Ambiance Salesman

Location: Last August, just before the world crumbled, you said you catered to a clientele that ‘wanted a more sophisticated experience than dribbling beer on their running shoes.' Has the recession changed your outlook at all? Do you aim for less snobbery?

Mr. Grossich: Well, it’s not so much snobbery. Read More

This Protest’s So Jane

The affable maitre d’ at the Waverly Inn stomped out to the curb on Wednesday night, Dec. 17, armed with pen and paper. He demanded to know, Who’s leading this mob?

About a dozen plainly dressed protesters had lined up outside the fashionable West Village celebrity haunt rather inconveniently around Read More

Irrational Exorbitance: Restaurants Ratchet It Up

“Bring me a cup of Ovaltine,” Jackie Gleason once told a waiter. “I want to be asleep when the bill comes.”

Tell me about it. The cost of eating out rose dramatically in 2007. Food prices went up faster than at any point in the past 15 years, according to Food Arts magazine, partly Read More


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