Eating In Translation

Astor Bake Shop

(This venue is closed.) The last slice of peach pie looked wonderful, too, but it wouldn't have traveled as well.

Peruvian Independence Fair

For lunch on a sizzling blacktop playground, ceviche seemed inauspicious, well-chilled or not.

A. Hupfel's Sons Beer

The photo captures what might be deemed two affiliated advertisements, one for beer and one (shadowed, and partly obscured by a neighboring building) for Jos. Wagner's Schuetzen (Park Hall).

Name This Restaurant

Down home, every day could be a picnic day, looks like. Up in these parts, the setting is far less spacious, but the figurative "spread" — the soul food, that is — is still very enticing. Can you name this restaurant? (Please post your answer in the comments.)

Gertel's

They've been hiding in plain sight.

Brewla Bars

Two of Brewla's four tea-infused flavors had already vanished in the summer heat, but on an undercaffeinated afternoon, "The Buzz" (honey vanilla black tea, $3) did me a solid. The Brewla name, do note, also leaves open the door to coffee-infused pops down the road.

Brewla Bars
At the Fulton Stall Market, South Street (between Fulton and Beekman streets), New York
Sundays during warmer weather
www.BrewlaBars.com

Meatopia

Old-timey music was readily available all afternoon.

Roll-N-Roaster

Doesn't look like a champagne joint, does it?

Seabra's Marisqueira

At this point it was a mop-up operation, but only for the appetizers.

The "Oriental" building

The current ground-floor tenant is a Taoist temple, but according to anecdotal accounts, more than a century ago the building hosted McKeon's Saloon, where a young Irving Berlin worked as a singing waiter. The only newspaper article I can find on the saloon, from 1894 ("These Were Strong Knockout Drops"), gives it an address on "Christie St.," but it's very possible there was more than one McKeon's. It's certain that the demographics of the neighborhood were far different than today: A name such as "Oriental" would have been added to the roofline only long before Chinatown was Chinatown.

The "Oriental" building
20 Bowery (at Pell St.)