Photo: Chris Buck
Our former
bar writer Andrew Paine Bradbury sits down with Taavo Somer of
Freemans today, and though the
BlackBook Q&A doesn’t go any deeper than
David Amsden’s profile, an interesting moment arises when Somer identifies one of his favorite industry icons: “This guy Jason Mclean from the old Loring Café, in Minneapolis. The place had Shakespeare one night, and a gypsy wedding the next, just weird shit happening. Freemans got its artichoke dip from there.”
Damn! So
that’s who’s responsible for the Lower East Side’s most popular appetizer (we thought maybe
TGIF? Applebee's?) Let’s hope Freemans is sending royalty checks to Minnesota.
Power Players: Taavo Somer, Rustic Freeman [BlackBook]
Related: Coolhunted [NYM]
