‘The finer diner’: How Shelly Fireman turned a borough into a feeling at the Brooklyn Diner (opens in new tab)

Shelly Fireman, a restaurateur who decades ago believed in retro, called Alexis Reyes in the early 1990s and offered him a job. The problem was that Reyes already had a good gig as the manager of Sarabeth’s, a successful restaurant on the Upper West Side. Fireman, though, had an idea. “He said we are… Read More