"Cecchi’s, a clubby restaurant that opened this summer in the West Village, occupies an address that’s significantly haunted, even by the city’s standards. The space’s previous tenant, Café Loup, was a bona-fide writers’ hangout, home base for a brainy, artsy Manhattan scene that, in the café’s forty-odd-year history, encompassed Seymour Britchky, Susan Sontag, Christopher Hitchens, and an army of other literary-world regulars. When the restaurant closed for good, in 2019, amid a reported half-million dollars in unpaid taxes, it was eulogized as the end of a certain bohemian way of life in the city." - Helen Rosner
Photographs by William Jess Laird for The New Yorker
