Joe writes, "I was using it as a bookmark in something I probably purchased off a blanket on Second Ave."
Take a look back at the old Kiev. We still miss it.
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Kiev Card
Cartoonist Joe Dator sends in this shot of a business card from the long-lost Kiev.
Joe writes, "I was using it as a bookmark in something I probably purchased off a blanket on Second Ave."
Take a look back at the old Kiev. We still miss it.
Joe writes, "I was using it as a bookmark in something I probably purchased off a blanket on Second Ave."
Take a look back at the old Kiev. We still miss it.
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Yes, but who can remember that before Kiev it was Mindy's Soda Shoppe, a place for egg creams and lime rickeys with hours of boastful conversations among the teen kids just hanging out? Well, I can. Nostalgia is still alive in my heart.
Yeah miss that place for sure. Another East Village landmark that at the time it still existed, you never thought it would be gone. I'm just glad that I was there enough times that I can vivdly picture it in my head as I write this. I remember once walking by and seeing Phillip Glass sitting alone at one of the tables by the window. Another time I remember going there early in the morning, 9AM (that was 'early' for me then) around 1989 when a friend and I had to get numbers at Anthology Film Archive to reserve a place on line for tickets to see the Robert Frank/Rolling Stones movie "Cocksucker Blues". We were the first two to get numbers and it was exciting because it was my first time seeing that movie which was already which even then was already the stuff of legend. After we got our numbers we went over to the Kiev and had coffee while we waited for the box office to open. Do kids know who Robert Frank is anymore?
We used to eat at Kiev all the time after drinking. I don't know if was the at times brutally slow service or the meh food, but I loved going there. Never took a shining to Veselka.
best fried perogies ever Mushroom barley soup . The 80s miss Kiev .
I leaned about pierogis, there. With applesauce, and sour cream, and carmelized onions. Mmmmmmm. And their Challah french toast! Still the best french toast I have ever had, anywhere. And I've had a lot of french toast.
Thanks to King Missile, the Kiev lives on.
Interesting how everything can change, even the spelling of Kiev is now Kyiv. But sometimes the really good things continue on, like Veselka approaching their 60th Anniversary, one of the last true East Village Landmarks. It is Epic in it's own right, and that corner of 9th street and 2nd Ave. seems to be the crossroads of the East Village.
last time i was on 2nd ave (2008) i went to my favorite polish restuarnt. may have been between 13th & 12st? maybe called "little poland". is it still there? they were so nice, told me how they cooked the food, whether there were spices etc. family owned, really personal, great food & service. we have declined w/chain restaurants, excessive coffee places, expensive b.s. fancy places.
I used to go there after a night of drinking and dancing. Their pierogies would sop up all the bad vodka I'd just consumed. I'll never forget when a friend of mine annouced that her blintzes were "Pillows of Joy." Every time I walk past that corner I feel a little sad...
Laura, Little Poland is still going strong. My fave is the best lamb & potato soup. Avoid the hardest bench seats in creation. Funny, I don't shed tears for the Kiev, but I really miss Leshkov's (A& 7th). That was great perogi.
Joe
Yeah, those soups and the challah. Mmm. And yes Phillip Glass was ALWAYS eating there. See him from time to time at Veselka these days.
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