Wednesday, August 28, 2013

P.J. Clarke’s

Perhaps the name P.J. Clarke’s rings a bell but if you have not yet gone to the where it all began, we must say that you have not yet tasted or experienced anything just yet. How about planning a lunch trip to P.J. Clarke’s at where it all began with your friends and if you think it is too troublesome for everyone to drive there for a lunch appointment, chartering a NYC coach would be just the perfect idea. That way, no one has to drive or look for a parking spot. Just have the rented NYC coach drop everyone off right at the doorstep of P.J. Clarke’s – but be sure to tell him to send you to the one at 915 Third Avenue, at 55th Street New York.

The humble beginning of P.J. Clarke’s began when Mr Patrick Joseph Clarke opened the doors of the little brick saloon and until today, it has become a legend. Even though the neighborhood went through a lot of changes, but the bar remained unchanged till this very day. It still has the human leg bones over the door ornament (they say it is for good luck – some kind of an Irish talisman), the broken pay phone and Skippy, the faithful dog that was once the bar’s mascot (but now it is stuffed and mounted by the regulars after he died in an accident – well, at least that’s what we were told). Anyway, to get to P.J. Clarke’s in this part of town, it would definitely be a great idea to charter bus as the area is rather busy most of the time, so you don’t want to waste your time looking for a place to park your car before you can fill up your tummy with its delicious and mouth watering burgers.

If this is your first trip here, you can always ask the servers for suggestions from their menu, or you can be adventurous and pick what you think would best suit your taste bud. They even have a burger that goes by the name Cadillac Burger, which is said to be named by Nat King Cole simply because he called it the “Cadillac of Burgers”. However, we would like to warn you ahead of time that you will have to wait a while at this place because it is almost always busy and packed with hungry customers. However, when your food arrives, you will know that it is worth the wait. Bon appétit!