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Memory Lane: Soup Burg R.I.P.
It is a mistake to think that New York is all about the latest and greatest when you can just as easily stumble over colonial houses and African Burial Grounds, secret speakeasy entrances and abandoned subway substations. Burbling history makes New York something fantastic, and when you combine it with growing up in the city, one can relish- or become swamped in- all kinds of levels of fantastic nostalgia and it's great to be able to indulge in this kind of sentimental waxing.
Chronic nostalgia is why love the Landmarks Commission and why I write angry letters about buildings that threaten my neighborhood and sign petitions to keep Donald Trump from building something horrible in Soho and why I cheer when fancy-pants folks get told that they can't pave over the cobblestones in front of their building.
Early this morning, I learned that a restaurant is closing. Today. It isn't a wildly remarkable place, and there used to be zillions exactly like it. In fact, there is another branch of this joint a few blocks away from the original, but to me there is only one Soup Burg. Since it has been in business for 57 years, I suspect I am not alone.
Soup Burg taught me the finer points of diner coffee (hot and iced) when I was in high school. I worked at a children's' clothing store (long since closed) two blocks away and it was my late morning, early afternoon breather. It is (was) a quintessential place. A defining place. If you need to describe a Greek diner to an outsider, there it is. If you need to picture a burger deluxe or a grill counter, look no further. It is a spot that- in spite of being smack in the middle of one of the tonier parts of Madison Avenue- never bothered to reinvent its menu for dieters. Their idea of diet food is that classic 70's gambit: a scoop of cottage cheese instead of a hamburger bun and Jell-o for dessert.
In spite of the heat, my husband and I took Felix on a pilgrimage and crammed ourselves into a corner where we photographed ourselves in this dying breed of a restaurant. (I was unable to show Felix the pleasures of the 2nd Avenue Deli's pickles before it lost its lease, so I felt the need to indoctrinate him into this place that contributed to his mother's odd palate.) Some people beside us seemed amused but cranky. She had a headache which we were able to help because I never leave the house without at least two forms of painkiller and once the ice was broken, she asked: "Is the food here really good?"
Soup Burg's last day was their first time!
My husband explained that it isn't really about the food, which is good in a bad way or bad in a good way. It was about our pasts and how much we love knowing that Soup Burg was always there.
This is one of the things that makes growing up in New York so wonderful. Your life tends to linger all over town (at least until rents get too high), which makes the whole city your scrapbook.
And where else can you find restaurants with this kind of signage over the cook counter?
posted by Elise at 4:36 PM
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And the smell...oh, the smell walking by would make your stomach growl, hungry or not.
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