When Sydney husband-and-wife team Linden Pride and Nathalie Hudson took over a much-loved, 100-year-old cafe in New York's Greenwich Village, the response was swift and brutal.
In New York, a city of astonishing turnover and constant change, it can feel like a landmark establishment closes down almost every day, replaced by a pharmacy chain or a soulless gastropub.Fiercely protective locals feared Caffé Dante was another case in point. Since 1915, it had been a legendary joint in a neighbourhood populated by Italians and beatniks. Al Pacino, Ernest Hemingway and Bob Dylan were regulars.
For the first eight months, however, they were losing money. Hudson was pregnant with the couple's first child and they couldn't afford to pay staff.
How on earth can it be best bar in the world? I have not voted!
Well deserved - congratulations!
Good service
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