On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:03:20 -0400, "Virginia Tadrzynski"
> wrote:

>Back in the Stone Age, when I was in college (the summer of '80) we went to
>NYC and had dinner at Mama Leone's of fame and Billy Joel's singing. Had
>duck l'orange, was not impressed. Is it still there? I heard it closed,
>then reopened, then closed and is now open elsewhere.

Mama Leone's was mostly known for its lavish Italian Renaissance
decor, beyond grotesque, their food was no better or worse than Olive
Garden. I ate there some half dozen times in the 50s because my then
girlfriend's parents loved going there prior to a Broadway show...
naturally they picked up the tab.