Better get your fill now. Might not be there for long:

http://www.curbed.com/archives/2006/...p_for_sale.php

My steady fav for more than 5 years is Comfort Diner. There are a couple of them, one on 45th bet 2nd and 3rd, and one on 23 and Broadway (?).

FANTASTIC french toast. Huge thick slabs of Challa bread, but each one is really fairly light, real maple syrup. Their omlettes are great, too. Friendly, efficient service.

Comfort diner is very resonably priced.

Avoid Frontier Diner, 39th and 3rd. AWFUL pancakes.

There's no news on this yet.

But Blumie, if you want to try it keep in mind that they go on vacation for a month after this Sunday!

I was looking for a place near the Natural History Museum a couple months ago and posted on FT about. Good Enough to Eat was suggested at it was fantastic.

The best pancakes I've had in Manhattan are the peach pancakes at the Little Place, which is across the street from Kitchenette (the downtown one). Interestingly, both the Little Place and Kitchenetts share a former address, that being the tiny catering place next to the little place.

Your mention of the article jogged my memory - I too, read the article and had intended on going there, but it slipped my mind.

The article is linked below, and I hope it is still open when I make my next trip to NYC:


http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?020415fa_FACT

Now that Kitchenette has moved around the corner into Taylors' old space, I'm wondering how the restaurants will shuffle this time...

The obscure documentary, "I Like Killing Flies" will finally be released in theaters next week. From what I understand, it is a very rough-around-the-edges documentary about Shopsin's. It was made before Kenny's wife & only waitress, Eve, died and it was shot in their previous building. The film's rare viewings had only occured around the time of its screening at Sundance a few years ago. Of course now Minda (one of Kenny's twin daughters) is running the front of the house and doing a splendid job. Her and Zach (Kenny's son) have done a lot to usher in a new generation of kids...who inevitably bring their own new kids to eat there too.

Another menu hint: for lunch, go with the taco fried chicken...the ultimate in comfort food imo.

La Bonbonniere, 8th Avenue just south of 14th St (moments from the subway). Old School doesn't begin to sum it up. It's great.

With Shopsin's on vacation I contemplated not eating breakfast or lunch anymore...but instead went with trying some of my fellow FTers recs.

-Went to La Bonbonniere (La Bon) yesterday. Very nice french toast. Omlettes looked good.

-Off to Pink Tea Cup now

Thanks for the update. Keep 'em coming.

Eli's Vinegar Factory is excellent and popular. Better to try a weekend breakfast as the weekend brunch can involve a bit of a wait. Like the phoenix, it has (thankfully) risen from the ashes!

DrivingRain, did you go see the film yet? I saw it last night (even though I've never been to Shopsin's) and enjoyed it--gave a pretty good view into Kenny's head. Impressed by how versatile his use of the f-bomb is, too!

Where exactly is the old space--is it where Snack Taverna is now?

also tea and sympathy does a fantastic english breakfast every day til about 130 pm in the west village (greenwich between 7th and 8th aves)

Norma's - it is possible to reserve on OpenTable.com. On weekdays you can reserve easily. Pricey? In absolute terms, yes. But if you consider that many of the menu items you can't get anywhere else (or at least don't have a choice among them unless you go to Shopsin's ) and you get high quality ingredients, extreme volume, and attentive service in an upscale setting and an expensive neighborhood, it may be worth it. Yes, it's $7 for fresh-squeezed orange juice. But it's a *bottomless* glass of fresh squeezed orange juice. Coffee is likeqise around $7 but you get your own French press pot full, and it is some of the best coffee in the city. Especially if you like it hi-octane.

Another place worth the trek - "Burgers and Cupcakes", formerly mitchell London foods. Mitchell London recently "renovated" the space (they painted, put up some pictures and changed their awning and name) to make it have a little more atmosphere. It is still bare bones and is all about the food. Service is haphazard, but it is relatively cheap and it serves, hands down, THE BEST PANCAKES IN TOWN. A bottomless stack of pancakes is about $7. Mitchell London is at heart a caterer, not a restauranteur, and his French crullers sell out by 11am on a weekend morning. They can also be found at Murray's cheese shop in the village, and the pancakes can also be found at Zabar's upstairs restaurant. It's on 9th Ave around 35th St. (1-2 blocks north of 34th).

(not really breakfast, but funny: they close early, around 9pm. Lately they have been putting cupcakes outside around closing time with a sign that says "FREE cupcake if you tell us you hate Bush," sometimes the sign just says "FREE CUPCAKES.")