(This venue is closed.) A drink, and perhaps a sandwich (prepared off-premises), are typical fare at this Morningside Heights hangout. Special occasions are another matter.
Often the bar will beckon customers to the covered pool table for a buffet that might include seafood stew with monkfish, baby octopus, squid, shrimp, onions, and tomatoes, or Cajun meatloaf (shown below) centered around hard-boiled eggs and flecked with vegetables.
St. Patrick's Day brings the opportunity to put down a protective layer of corned beef, cabbage, and scalloped potatoes (the pool table typically remains in play), and if you're lucky, to sample the soda bread made by Bartley Della, a pastry chef and the man behind that meatloaf. It's quite moist, at least for soda bread, and Bartley also coaxes out an underlying sourness that balances the sweetness of the raisins. Muse over this marvel, but don't stray too near the dartboard.
The Night Café
938 Amsterdam Ave. (106th-107th Sts.)
212-864-8889
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