I'm Telling Anyway

There's a little hotdog place on St. Mark's Place in the East Village with an old fashioned phone booth near the front door.

 This is the rather "Get Smart" style entry to a 'speakeasy' called PDT. Or Please Don't Tell.

You pick up the phone and give your name and an inner door suddenly swings open.... and you're inside this intimate quiet bar where the splendidly inventive cocktail list changes daily and the bill of fare is gourmet hotdogs and tater tots. YUMMO!!!!!

Six of us from PRISCILLA sat in the middle booth and scoffed everything on the menu. We were as stuffed as the animals on the shelves above us. Phone reservations open at 3pm (the address isn't even on their website) and the place is usually booked out within half an hour. Fun. It made me very homesick for my old 'hood now that I've moved uptown to 93rd St.