Tavern on the Green: 125 Recipes For Good Times, Celebrating The New York Legend

great stories, with the back story included, of a New York landmark

I live diagonally across the United States from NYC, but enjoyed dining at Tavern on the Green when I was in graduate school on the East Coast. I was sad to read that the restaurant had closed, and reveled in finding this lovely cookbook in the bookstore one day. OMG! After looking at it in the store, I just had to have it! So, raced home to order it through Amazon.I am a cookbook collector, and a traveling Foodie, who likes "clean" food (meaning no chemicals, hormones, antibiotics, etc.). I also am interested in historical cookbooks which capture an era's best dishes. This cookbook is what I call "solid", meaning that it is filled with recipes which allow one to cook cleanly with natural ingredients, recipes that all sound delicious, and which represent the Tavern on the Green's era with most everyone's favorite dishes. No odd dishes with hard-to-find ingredients.An added plus is that the recipes in the Tavern on the Green cookbook do not look hard to execute, and execute well. The recipes look fairly straightforward, and pretty healthy. This cookbook could easily become a family's favorite cookbook for great daily meals, special occasions and entertaining! A simple way to raise your family's standard of living, through culinary excellence!

I’ve had the great good fortune to have had dinner at Tavern on the Green more than once, and each time it’s been a breathtaking experience! Haven’t bee since the passing of Mr Leroy.

wonderful walk down memory lane and absolutely approachable, doable recipes, such as shame the Tavern is no longer the REAL Tavern, but at least I have this book and fond memories!!

The photos were fabulous ! It brought back wonderful memories for me, so I bought it for my sister as well. She loved it ! …such great memories of New York, the restaurant, and the best recipes ever….It's not easy to modify restaurant recipes to family size ones and have them taste exactly the same. It was lovely that the family mentioned the history behind the restaurant as well. I have tried many of the recipes and they were as great as I had remembered which isn't easy. My family is from New England and the Crab Cakes recipe, is one of the best I have found. Bon Appetit !

Alas, the Tavern on the Green is no more, but for those of us who would like to see what it was like, this book is for you. The pictures are great. Even friends from New York, came to my house and read it in the evening. That should tell it all. There are recipes in there, too, if one is fond of recreating an evening to remember at the dinner table. People who enjoy cooking would enjoy getting this book, perhaps for a gift to add to their library.

I never had a chance to go to this restaurant, but after reading the book I feel as if I had been. I shall be ordering from these people again.

This book outlines the history of this great New York landmark in addition to the characters that made the restaurant special and charming. The recipes allow you to recreate the same dishes at home. This book will forever be in my collection and makes a great gift for anyone who is a collector of fine cook books.

wonderful book.