bedford post

So, yesterday I had breakfast with the esteemed photographer Lisl Steiner at Richard Gere's cafe, Bedford Post. She had the eggs and I had the custom-made granola, served with yogurt. Pretty good. The Post as familiars call it was dead empty at 9 a.m., which surprised me, since the parking lot was full. Presumably with yoga fanatics, numerous as they are. But in the restaurant there was only me and Lisl and a party of four tourists, looking for local thrills.

Is the problem at the Post (and no patrons is a problem) the time of year? All the regulars must have decamped to the Hamptons (possibly there should be a Hamptons Post?) by July and won't be back for months. Or is the problem the pricing? Ms. Steiner, who spoke Spanish with our server and who appears to be a regular, said that she told the management that she needed a microscope to see the food on her plate and that she thought the cost to be outrageous. Nonetheless, she had eggs followed by panna cotta, which I must say, looked quite delicious.