Inspector Visits Sardi’s. Free Cheese Ends.
18th November 2011
It was a tradition at bars like the ones in Sardi’s in the theater district: a communal cheese pot with a knife sticking out, and some crackers. First-nighters or late-nighters grabbed the knife and a cracker, spread the cheese — cheddar — and ate. Some called it dinner.
Now, after a health department inspection that complained about “food not protected from potential source of contamination,” the communal pot is gone.
Other bar-food staples like peanuts and pretzels in little bowls? Sardi’s has taken them off the bar, too.
Bureaucrats are never happy unless other people aren’t.