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“Penelope”


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  Lunch/Takeout New American Murray Hill Cheap Eats Good

MY DINNER AT PENELOPE

I like to be comfortable. By this I mean that I mostly wear clothes that might in a moments notice be ready for bed, and that you won’t generally find me in shoes with pointy toes, high heels, straps, or anything resembling a peep-toe. Even when I go out at night, I generally toss my real shoes in a purse and wear flip-flops to restaurant because I like to walk places and can’t seem to do it in heels. I realize I am in the minority. My friend Alison could run a marathon in her heels. She wears them as slippers around the house. Susie is the same way. She is actually uncomfortable in flats. Now that she lives in Rome, a city of cobblestone, she has come to wear wedge heels instead. She’d shower in them if she could. Me, not so much. And my lifestyle, as a freelance writer, fits my desire for comfort quite well. As I write this, I am sitting at my desk, cup of just pressed coffee to my left, in a t-shirt and a pair of soft stretchy yoga pants. No, I am not about to do yoga, I just wear them because they are so comfy. And this is how I will remain all day, until I decide to put on “real” clothes and makeup at night. I’ll pull on something remotely fashionable (I can’t do skinny jeans as I don’t have skinny thighs) for a few hours for dinner (or lunch if I have a daytime event), and then come home and its back to the bare feet and the yoga pants. It works for me.

After eating at Penelope several times over the past month, I realize one of the reasons I love this little place is that I not only like clothes that are comfortable. I like restaurants that are comfortable, too. And Penelope is the restaurant equivalent of flip-flops. Owned by Jennifer Potenza, who named her cozy corner spot after her turtle, Penelope is a simple little neighborhood restaurant, albeit one that feels like its true neighborhood might be Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard, or the shore somewhere, not the cab-crowded corner of Lexington Avenue and 30th Street.

Craig discovered Penelope on his walk to work and he mentioned it to me when I was writing a lobster roll piece for the Post. He had seen one listed as a special on a chalkboard on the sidewalk. “Penelope?” What’s Penelope?” I asked, not imagining that there could be a restaurant in New York City I hadn’t heard of. “It’s this cute place I pass on the way to work,” he said. &ldq ... [more, click below]

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Other restaurants in Murray Hill :
+ Breakfast at The Cafe at Country   + A Voce   + Country (Upstairs)   + Darna   + Penelope   


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