The Burro of Narberth - Guiliani's

"Guiliani’s Restaurant being gone is still causing me problems. I still find myself thinking, Maybe I’ll walk over to Guiliani’s tonight. I think I miss that place more than Davis’s or the Farmers Market, and that’s sayin something.

Of course I can remember when old Mr. Guiliani first opened the place back around 1930 or thereabouts.

Right from the start, the Guiliani family sure knew how to throw together a plate of spaghetti, you could count on that. You could also count on the place being packed too. When you walked up to that front door--it opened inward--you always had to push on it real careful so you wouldn't nail somebody in the mob jammed inside waiting for a table, or if they were lucky, a booth.

It was a big tourist hang-out too, all kinds of slicked-back Lower Merion types in blazers and green pants sitting in there, discussing their bank accounts or the Republican Party or whatever it was they talk about while they put away a mountain of gratifying spaghetti and a few glasses of Chianti, all of it sold to em at third-world prices.   Well, if not third-world, at least Democrat prices.

And as to that operation they put in where Guliani’s used to be, that's a whole different story, but don’t get me started on that."

July 15, 1998


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