A brief list of all the places that I frequented in my 20′s which have now closed.
Every diner in my neighborhood
Gawker, Gothamist, and DNAinfo
Tiny Fork, which I think we put out of business with the free drinks we were given (nights of them, it feels like)
That place that just had pigs in a blanket
Multiple Bro J’s locations
The awful Vietnamese place I worked in (which was run by white men)
This BS biscuit place that I screamed at one night
Vandaag (one of the first places I loved & lost)
Cover, the app that kept me fed with fancy food (and also, just fed in general) for over a year
Yunnan BBQ (RIP best michelada ever)
This truly insane place where I once texted my parents “if I die from eating steak tartar in this entirely empty restaurant tonight please avenge me”
The best, fanciest soufflé place
Ella, where we danced and drank for free til dawn thanks to some aptly-placed friends
My favorite place to get a sidecar (it came with an actual “sidecar” made of a hollowed out lemon!
King Bee, where I had the biggest oyster of my life
Winnie’s, where I tripped over my purse strap, flashed an entire birthday party of strangers, and spent $160 on shots to make everyone forget about it...I think I ended up with most of the shots, though.