My husband and I have enjoyed Lupa quite a few times. We love to sit at the bar, eat a light supper, and drink the great wines by the quarto. We went the other night after going to the Film Forum. It's our summer ritual when the kids go off to camp, and we hadn't been since last summer. We were struck by the difference in the atmosphere as soon as we walked in the door. The sloppy looking women tending bar in extremely unstylish white buttondown shirts, looking like they're hanging out and don't want to be interrupted by customers have replaced the professional, skilled bartenders of the past who knew how to suspend belief enough to make you feel that you were in Rome. The service exhibited this night could easily have fit in at a diner off the Long Island Expressway. I said to my husband that if this was the first time going to Lupa it would have been the last. Hopefully, Lupa will care enough to reshape their front of house.
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