Posted by Alvin L. on Thu, Jul 04, 2024

Did you eat out on special occasions or maybe never?
Which Bronx restaurants, where, what type of food and how often?

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Posted by Barbara on Thu, Jul 04, 2024

Deli was down the street, but went to the one on Burnside Ave. Also the Chinese restaurant on Burnside and Jerome Ave. Sometimes we ventured into the city for Katz's or Ratner's and sometimes we went to
Yonkers on special occasions to Patricia Murphy's. Oh, those popovers!!!!

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Posted by John S on Thu, Jul 04, 2024

NEXT TO NEVER ! Yes there were plenty of places to eat.But ole pop couldn't(or wouldn't) scrape up the cash.Yes,he drove a hack,but while that doesn't bring in a bundle,but he was tight.I think ole popsicle maybe did the horses or something

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Posted by Chris on Fri, Jul 05, 2024

Very rare. Once at Neal's next to the Aqueduct on Fordham Road. Neals was american fare steak type restaurant i would say. Another time at a Chinese restaurant also on Fordham Road. I still remember the menu was the old fashioned Columb A & Columb B.

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Posted by Kevin Reynolds on Sat, Jul 06, 2024

Our family ate out about once a month. I think the place they loved most was called Patsy's on the corner of Pugley and Westchester. I liked it because we could leave after eating to play with my friends. We only lived 2 blocks away. My parents use to hang around to sip a drink or 2.

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Posted by Larry From Ps96 on Mon, Jul 08, 2024

At least once a week. Chinese...Fu Manchu on Tremont Ave, Italian, Mario's on Arthur Avenue, deli on the corner of Allerton and White Plains road...AND those White Castle sliders!

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Posted by Alvin L. on Mon, Jul 08, 2024

Fu Manchu was a long somewhat narrow Chinese restaurant with lime green booths along both walls & other booths in the middle, a menu with choices from column A & column B and a bunch of big framed pictures of life in China on the walls above the booths. My family would go there once a month on Sunday and we'd have chicken noodle soup + Chicken Chow main or Egg Foo Young + scoop of ice cream and a fortune cookie. It was right there on Tremont Ave and Southern Blvd near the candy store. Across the street was a pool hall and a Deli (was it Katz's Deli?).

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Posted by Miltonebx on Tue, Jul 09, 2024

That was Katz's Deli. The pool room became the dance hall that had the fire with many lives lost. The bodies were held in elementary school P.S.67.

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Posted by Judyj on Thu, Jul 11, 2024

Hi Kevin, I was going to mention the same restaurant but in my time it was called the Metropolitan. It had a bar on the Pugsley side and a large restaurant that faced Westchester. We didn't go often but the food was really good. My family said it was there before the el was built when Westchester Ave. was still an old time trail. We lived nearby.

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Posted by Ace on Wed, Jul 24, 2024

Other than Mom's infatuation with Schrafft's and their coffee, We had Nonna Lucia-- so it was Rare...

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Posted by Linda Bier Koenig on Sat, Aug 24, 2024

we went to the 167th street cafeteria

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