Closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays. The walls in Gail's have been cleaned to reveal the beautiful stonework underneath and they stand as a tribute to the craftsmen who constructed them. My old friend Herbie Boyer, a stonemason, would have flipped at the quality of this work. But Herbie was a piece of work himself. Booths and banquettes fashioned with dark leather, plus some free-standing tables, fill the narrow room.
Several fans hang from the tongue and groove wooden ceiling.
The floor is covered with white tiles with black diamonds, an artifact of the soda fountain days. Chef Ira Mittelman moved down from Portland, Ore., to do the cooking. The place has only been open for a month, so it was a quiet night when we visited. Despite this, the service was poky and vapid. We finally got him to admit that the ravioli were stuffed with scallops and roasted garlic and set in a saffron cream sauce.