This Tribeca restaurant serves Continental and American food with a Mexican flair. It started off with modest and charming surroundings and doubled its space in four years. There s often a wait of 20-30 minutes, even in the winter. Brunch is popular partly because of the banana-walnut pancakes. Bubby s bakes all its pies from scratch.
Smoking is permitted in one section of the restaurant.
Limited menu midnight-3 am. Most major credit cards. An American Place New American cuisine is presented in this large, airy restaurant, decorated with art-deco furniture. Specialties are lobster stew and duck. It s a favored hangout of the media at lunchtime.