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THE RUSSIAN TEA ROOM -- 150 W. 57th St. (212-581-7100)--As anyone with a passing knowledge of New York City real-estate lore or the oeuvre of Dustin Hoffman knows, the Russian Tea Room ought to feel like someplace special. Never has this seemed more the case than this year, when Gerald Lieblich rescued the deed from the United States Golf Association and pledged to restore the restaurant to its "Tootsie"-era primacy. His incarnation, the Tea Room's fourth since 1926, opened in November, and it leaves intact, more or less, Warner LeRoy's thirty-six-million-dollar tsarist wonderland from 1999. A liveried attendant continues to whirl the revolving door; the burnished antique samovars stay, as do veal Pojarski and chicken Kiev (albeit in fine print on the menu's last page). The only thing Lieblich forgot to take out of the attic, it appears, is a sense of grand occasion.
Everybody's rooting for the place. "Is that a Picasso?" a tourist asked the other evening, eager to imbue with further meaning a painting, hanging near the elevator, of a horse rider ...
- Fine dining's Muscovite mess; Russian Tea Room's service flaws eclipse...
- Magazine article from: Crain's New York Business Lape, Bob January 22, 2007 700+ words
...recently, when a waiter at the Russian Tea Room triggered a champagne cascade...ve got it: It's the Rushin' Tea Room. ... Comments? cnyb@crain.com RUSSIAN TEA ROOM 150 W. 57th St. (between Sixth...
- Uneven fare -- in a princely setting ;Russian Tea Room dazzles, not with food.
- Magazine article from: Crain's New York Business lape, bob December 6, 1999 700+ words
...LeRoy's ability to realize his Russian Tea Room dream are silent, mouths agape...years and $20 million, the Russian Tea Room is far more than it was in every...the czar. Guests checking out Russian Tea Room food these days will find all...
- Russian Tea Room sold for $16 million.(United States Gold Association makes...
- Magazine article from: Real Estate Weekly December 11, 2002 700+ words
The world famous Russian Tea Room at 150 West 57th St., frequented...high-profile transaction. The Russian Tea Room has garnered a flurry of media...to bring the same success to the Russian Tea Room. Unfortunately, Leroys failing...
- iUniverse Releases Anne Turray Steinberg's Every Town Needs a Russian Tea Room.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire January 4, 2006 700+ words
...Steinberg's Every Town Needs a Russian Tea Room (iUniverse, ISBN 0-595...septuagenarian. In Every Town Needs a Russian Tea Room, her first self-published...even better than New York's Russian Tea Room - and he helps her find refuge...
- LeRoy overcomes scathing reviews; $30 million revamp is paying off for famed...
- Magazine article from: Crain's New York Business kramer, louise November 6, 2000 700+ words
...Beverly Beekman were invited to the Russian Tea Room for a birthday dinner recently...general manager Michael Desiderio. Tea Room executives claim the 27,000...inexplicably bad.'' Now, the Russian Tea Room is pushing to boost sales higher...
- Tea time on W. 57 for golf museum; Association buys Russian Tea Room; boosts...
- Magazine article from: Crain's New York Business Kramer, Louise November 4, 2002 700+ words
...Association will turn the famed Russian Tea Room into a golf museum, housing memorabilia...Columbus Circle. The fact that the Tea Room hasn't been sold to another...bring a lot of people.'' The Russian Tea Room was the last project of Warner...
- AT THE RUSSIAN TEA ROOM, THE ELITE WON'T MEET TO EAT UNTIL 1997.(MAIN)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) December 31, 1995 700+ words
...an office upstairs, where the Russian Tea Room's reservation phone rang incessantly...LeRoy, promises to maintain the Tea Room's ostentatious fare. Its five...dining space but will retain the Tea Room's distinctive decor: forest...
- Men's Golf: USGA buys former site of Russian Tea Room.
- News wire article from: Sports Network November 19, 2002 700+ words
...The United States Golf Association bought the famed Russian Tea Room on Monday. The building, located next door to the...hundreds of thousands of visitors each year." The Russian Tea Room, which opened in 1926 by former members of the Russian...
