Fatburger, Joey Tribbiani, and the Village Voice
Categories: Sietsema, Speak, Memory
News that Fatburger - a California chain offering the usual gloppy, salad-topped burgers associated with that state - was planning another assault on New York City reminded me that this wasn't really the first time the fast-food-chain had made an attempt to establish itself in the metropolis.
Around 1990, before there were food blogs to publicize everything, a lonely Fatburger appeared in the Gramercy Park area, around 18th Street and Third Avenue on the east side of the avenue. It was a double storefront, with a flame-driven grill and some counter seating on southern side, and tables in the somewhat wider northern half.
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