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Yes, it’s true the Edison Cafe (mostly known as the Polish Tea Room) on West 47th Street – the gathering place for theater folks for umpteenth years, a place to see and be seen will be gone by year’s end! And many who have waited on line to get in are up in arms with picket signs.

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Jackie Hoffman - none too pleased - Matzo Ball soup her favorite

Jackie Hoffman – none too pleased – Matzo Ball soup her favorite

It has nothing to do with the mostly grimy plastic menus, or bland lifeless iceberg lettuce salads or greasy thin burgers. You ordered soup – the chosen pleasure, and then you paid cash. The waiters and waitresses were sometimes pleasant, albeit as lifeless as the iceberg lettuce. My personal favorites: Matzo Ball soup and Matzo Brie.

Here are some photos Maryann Lopinto captured, on her cell phone no less, of the outcry.

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original chef won a special Tony

original chef won a special Tony