{"id":27296,"date":"2011-05-02T08:27:37","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T14:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wend.ca\/?p=27296"},"modified":"2020-06-20T14:02:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T18:02:20","slug":"hells-kitchen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/?p=27296","title":{"rendered":"Hell’s Kitchen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Only a place originally settled by the Irish could have a name like <\/em>Hell’s Kitchen<\/em>. The area is now known for it’s cheap and delicious restaurants — but was originally synonymous with gangs, porn shops, violence and poverty.<\/p>\n

Only in the last few decades has the area gentrified and lived up to at least part of its name.<\/p>\n

This was Wednesday night’s destination and Greg<\/em> and I started at the Delta Grill on 9th Avenue and 48th Street — a pub frequented by Michi and her friends at the end of the school week. It’s a great place to relax and have a beer while eating good New Orleans food.<\/p>\n

The next destination was restaurant row, an area once known for speakeasies and gangster run clubs. The intended destination wasn’t a bar or pub, but Pam Real<\/em> Thai. The setting is a little hole in the wall reminiscent of restaurants in Asia; the overflow for the restaurant is up a set of stairs in the back, which lead to a second level seating area. <\/p>\n

To find out more about Hell’s Kitchen and its history check out Turf of Gangs and Gangsters<\/a> from the New York Times.<\/p>\n