The old bar was heaped with dusty bottles of booze, bitters and Tabasco sauce. And one of the stained glass windows was busted.
But the tables were still covered with white tablecloths – places set with silverware and red cloth napkins, as if awaiting tonight’s dinner crowd.
And there was still that albino snakeskin wallpaper, heavily rust-stained, and the tacked-up sheets of metal salvaged from a B-52 bomber, silvery and gleaming as ever.
“It’s all pretty much gutted now,” said Brad Shapiro, of Jabber Five, new owners of the former Martick’s Restaurant Francois at 214 West Mulberry Street.
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