Those nights sipping schnapps at the Fox Club in your boxers, or reciting whole memorized books of Milton's Paradise Lost at Naples Pizza. Well, this place is far less obnoxious than you! Though,... More

Those nights sipping schnapps at the Fox Club in your boxers, or reciting whole memorized books of Milton's Paradise Lost at Naples Pizza. Well, this place is far less obnoxious than you! Though, it does have the old Ivy feel, wood paneled walls, framed pictures of lionized authors that used to dwell here--e.g. Dorthy Parker,Jack Kerouac,William S. Burroughs,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Anais Nin, Eugene O-Neill, J.D. Salinger, Norman Mailer, it goes on. The wooden door that leads its way in is not marked and it would not be clear that this was a restaurant at all. There is a bar breaking up the two halves of the restaurant serving Chumley's own tasty beers. The atmosphere is warm, bustling, and sheltered--it started out as a speakeasy during Prohibition. I like the feeling of a sense of history, secrecy, and being in a place without a sign outside just makes you feel a little special, an in-the-know New Yorker, that we all are here.And they make really good burgers!
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