There’s a particular kind of New York restaurant that exists in a beautiful state of obscurity for just long enough to make the people who found it early feel genuinely smug about their discovery.
The Corner Store in TriBeCa was that restaurant, right up until the moment it wasn’t, and now those early regulars are competing with the rest of the city for a table they used to walk into without a second thought.
Welcome to the most bittersweet success story in lower Manhattan.
Let’s set the scene properly, because The Corner Store’s location is part of what makes the whole story work…