{"id":2080,"date":"2007-02-05T09:44:13","date_gmt":"2007-02-05T17:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/02\/a_coveted_banquette_near_belinda_carlisle.html"},"modified":"2007-02-05T09:44:13","modified_gmt":"2007-02-05T17:44:13","slug":"a_coveted_banqu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/02\/a_coveted_banqu.html","title":{"rendered":"A Coveted Banquette Near Belinda Carlisle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No one realized <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/02042007\/news\/regionalnews\/secret_scene_of_inn_crowd_regionalnews_mandy_stadtmiller.htm\">just how exclusive the Waverly Inn is<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Graydon is the only person who has a fixed table,&#8221; reveals one of the handsome waitstaff members (all of whom are men), who is neatly decked out in white shirt, black tie and big dreams outside the restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But the banquettes are all considered the priority seats, and that&#8217;s where we put the biggest names.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Waverly Lesson No.4: If you do somehow manage to score a main dining-room seat, just sit back and prepare to learn from the masters.<\/p>\n<p>Parties of three, four, five and six are hustled in and out quickly. When you really crunch the numbers, the average patron can end up spending about $1 to $2 a minute at the restaurant (a $14 glass of wine here, an $85 seasonal fruits-of-the-sea plate there).<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, it really is a view that&#8217;s priceless. While sitting near Banquette Row one night, we see Belinda Carlisle and Sandra Bernhard sweep into a table behind us to talk about whether certain friends do or do not have money.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one realized just how exclusive the Waverly Inn is: &#8220;Graydon is the only person who has a fixed table,&#8221; reveals one of the handsome waitstaff members (all of whom are men), who is neatly decked out in white shirt, black tie and big dreams outside the restaurant. &#8220;But the banquettes are all considered the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sliding_into_the_abyss_of_elitism_pretentiousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}