Blue Ribbon @ 25

The quintessential downtown NYC hangout, Blue Ribbon, opened twenty-years ago -- interestingly enough, on the very same night that Bill Clinton was elected president (*sigh*, good times). It's the ultimate nighttime brasserie, 

When it opened Blue Ribbon in 1992, down on Sullivan Street in Soho, it was a different, rougher city and Soho at night was not always the safest place. But Blue Ribbon planted a flag, made an investment in the neighborhood that, in every way, paid off.

Here's a great oral history of Blue Ribbon and it's a great prism to see how food and NYC, and food in NYC, have evolved over the last quarter century.