At Mortimer’s, Glenn Bernbaum reigned over social New York for decades. A new book evokes an era of pouf skirts, society walkers and ladies who lunched.
It was the best show in town, the society chronicler Dominick Dunne once wrote of Mortimer’s, a brick-walled restaurant at the corner of 75th Street and Lexington Avenue — provided you could get a table.
From this distance, it is not easy either to characterize or even comprehend the appeal of a joint that from 1976, until it abruptly closed after the death of its proprietor Glenn Bernbaum in 1998, occupied a singular place in Manhattan’s social landscape and even beyond it. Generally acknowledged to
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