testingJust in case, said Lawrence Bondalich, the bartender at Cesca on the Upper West Side, handing me a wine list and a menu, as I sat down at his bar that week. Ill have a vodka gimlet please — hold the crème br?lée.
I was told you were dining, said John Giorno, the bartender at Babbo in Greenwich Village two weekends ago, snatching a menu away from me as I settled into my seat and explained I was drinking. Mr. Giornos smile vanished like the sun and his face went as dark as a sky before a storm. I asked to see the menu and contritely ordered food.
According to bartenders, managers and owners across New York, bar space at most restaurants has become de facto dining space. Even people with reservations for a table trying to enjoy a drink at the bar first, as an enjoyable prelude, have to fight the good fight as drinkers contending with diners at the bar.
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