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The NEW YORK OBSERVER ... March 4, 2003


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down the austere halls of the Criminal Court building
on Centre Street, many spirited lawyerly discussions
also occurred a few blocks east, in a dim, shoebox-sized
Italian restaurant named Giambone. Now, as workers
at Centre Street and other nearby courthouses dig into
their fall workload, they are discovering that this
neighborhood fixture is gone.
two blocks south of Canal, Giambone, a virtual
clubhouse for lawyers, judges, cops and defendants
with a history as rich as its clam sauce, closed its
doors in June. It was a victim of 9/11 and the
sluggish economy, which all but eliminated the
evening dinner crowd.
which served it well during Prohibition, the restaurant
was opened in 1914 by a strapping fellow named
Italo Susi, who went by the nickname Giambone.
In 1935, after the upstairs tenant, a Western Union
office, left, Italo moved his eatery aboveground and,
along with his son Tony, built the place into a bustling, neighborhood joint.
was a natural choice for people who worked at the
courthouse or merely visited it from time to time,
like the mobster John Gotti. Tony Susi, now 82,
still remembers his introduction to the once-Teflon don.
John Gotti?' I said, 'Of course.' Then they said, 'Would
you wait on him personally?' So I waited on him. We
got along pretty well, too. I spoke to him in Italian.''
Mr. Gotti ordered the calamari and left a $125 tip.
including the comedian Pat Cooper, who wanted to kiss
Mr. Susi upon tasting his Linguine alla Sinatra , a house specialty, and John F. Kennedy Jr., who nursed his wounds
at Giambone after failing the bar exam for the second time.
ambiance. The décor -- rickety tables, taxidermied fish
on the wall -- was as unfashionable as your grandfather's basement, and nearly as dusty. The menu was varied
but never fancy. And Mr. Susi, by all accounts a gracious
host, presided over a cast of regulars that included a fellow named Louie Beans, a struggling lounge singer named
Detie Baxter, and Louis Martine, a big, garrulous
prankster.
day he sent two colleagues on a goose chase in search of a Chinese tailor rumored to sell cheap suits. ''By the time
the guys got back, they were walking swimming pools,''
he said with a laugh. ''They were mad as hell.''
a half-Italian, half-Chinese place next door, it was the
last Italian restaurant on Mulberry Street below Canal.
store, furthering the Asian dominance of an area that,
according to Mr. Susi, once housed seven Italian restaurants.
man named Joseph Elias. Bob Jenny, a spokesman
for New York City Management, the owner of the
building, said that Mr. Elias informed the company
last spring that he was closing the struggling business.
Mr. Elias could not be reached for comment.
hood,''' said Robert M. Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney and a longtime regular. ''Now, we go to Odeon or Forlini's.''
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Unlike the fictional food icons, Aunt Jemima, Betty Crocker, and Uncle Ben- Chef Boyardee is real, an actual chef, and an Ohioan. Ettore “Hector” Boiardi was born in Northern Italy in 1897. The Boiardi family immigrated to the United States in 1914 and eventually settled in Cleveland. Hector was already a talented chef by the time he moved to Cleveland and decided to open his first restaurant “Il Giardino d’Italia” at East 9th Street and Woodland Avenue in the Little Italy neighborhood. Chef Boiardi’s restaurant was a success and customers expressed an interest in his spaghetti sauce recipe, samples to take home, and wanting to recreate various dishes. To meet customer demands, Boiardi packaged his product in old milk bottles to send home with patrons. The chef started charging for these “take home” products and eventually his packaged sales were greater than his normal restaurants. The family decided to change their business model and began focusing on jarring their family’s sauce recipe to sell at American supermarkets. Hector also changed his name and product to “Boyardee” so that it was easier for Americans to say. Boyardee eventually sold his brand to American Home Foods for 6 million dollars, however the brand is still as popular as ever and found in supermarkets around the United States today.
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