In the President's Home by Auburn Mark;

Author:Auburn, Mark;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Akron Press

DINING OUT

When I returned to Akron in 1991, I invited my father to join me at a banquet at Tangier’s, and he said, “You’ll be eating a lot of meals here,” which proved true, Tangier’s being then the only facility with convenient parking in west Akron that could serve a hot sit-down meal to four hundred or more guests in less than an hour, including speeches. Dad’s public responsibilities during his previous forty years in Akron made him a connoisseur of banquet food and service. He and Mom had overseen the logistics to feed three hundred people at a time at the President’s Home, and he had expanded the Gardner Student Center in the mid-1960s to include the multipurpose Hilltop Dining Room with facilities open to the public to serve five hundred. Sharing meals in public was an important means for him to do business.

He appreciated restaurants that offered discrete, attentive, prompt service at tables covered with good linen and weighty silverware in unobtrusive, well-lit, quiet atmospheres with menus broad enough to meet his own needs and the usually different tastes of his companions, places well established but not trendy, “rich but not gaudy,” costly but not expensive. I ate with him at Morton’s in Chicago, Aunt Pitty Pat’s Porch in Atlanta, Durgin Park in Boston, Bookbinder’s in Philadelphia, Luchow’s and the University Club and Keen’s Chophouse and the Pierre in New York City, Gage and Tollner’s in Brooklyn, Blackie’s and the Cosmos Club in Washington, DC, the Fontainebleau and Wolfie’s in Miami Beach—only the last was not to his taste. In Akron his favorite was the Akron City Club until during his second marriage he joined the Portage Country Club.

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