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COPYRIGHT 2007 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc.
The Cafe Carlyle, a night club that has been around for more than fifty years and has always managed to actually look like a night club where people who went to night clubs would actually go, has been redone. About a year ago, James McBride, the Carlyle Hotel's manager, was planning to relocate the Cafe to the basement. His notion was to turn the ground-floor space where Woody Allen has played impassive, Bechet-ish clarinet for many years (and where Bobby Short kept Cole Porter standards raspingly alive for even more) into just another Madison Avenue boutique.
"Then I woke up one morning and realized that this was a terrible idea," McBride said the other day. "A lucrative idea, but a terrible one....
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