The Four Seasons Restaurant
Restaurant in the Seagram Building, Midtown Manhattan, open 1959–2016. A New York Post piece calls it the most important restaurant in the city’s history.
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| Everything we love to eat is a scam | Maureen Callahan | subject | A long appended piece traces the restaurant from its 1959 opening through the 1970s-90s as a Grill Room power-lunch nexus and symbol of… |
Everything we love to eat is a scam — Maureen Callahan (2016)
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The Four Seasons, which will serve its last meal on July 16 after 57 years in the Seagram Building, is the most important restaurant in the history of New York City.
- Role: subject
- In the article: A long appended piece traces the restaurant from its 1959 opening through the 1970s-90s as a Grill Room power-lunch nexus and symbol of a struggling city, to its decline and closing on July 16, 2016. It describes the pool room, Philip Johnson design, and deals hatched there.
- Why it matters: Genuinely dwelt-on place whose character carries the argument that it sustained New York through its low points; though it is a different piece appended to the food-fraud article.