From a New York Times story by Julie Besonen headlined “Favorite Drinks of All the Top Stars? He Has Them Memorized.”:

In 1968, Sardi’s was still enjoying its decades-long heyday, commanding the limelight as Broadway’s foremost hub of show folk, from big shots to wannabes to poignant has-beens. Playwrights, agents, publicists and newspaper columnists vied for strategic tables in the restaurant’s dining room, trading artful glances, gossip, poisoned barbs and air kisses. Elated tourists, always an ingredient of the Sardi’s experience, basked in the presence of Groucho Marx or Liza Minnelli entering to applause, a Sardi’s tradition.