By SCOTT CHERRY Restaurant Critic on Nov 29, 2012, at 11:24 AM Updated on 11/29 at 11:50 AM
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It was July 1983, it was hot, and the coolest place to be was the new Chimi's Mexican Food restaurant on 15th Street.
Today’s review in the Weekend section of the current-day Chimi's brought to mind a 2006 interview with the restaurant's co-founder, Nancy Gomez.
"People were lined up outside the doors, even on Sunday night," Gomez said. "I remember people out on the sidewalk listening to 'Prairie Home Companion' on the radio while they waited."
Gomez recalled that in those pre liquor-by-the-drink days customers could legally bring their own bottles of hooch to the restaurant, or they were served "liquor by the wink" by the restaurant.
"Technically, we were a private club that first year and sold margaritas like they were going out of style," Gomez said.
That original Chimi's was located where Kilkenny's Irish Pub is today; it moved across the street to Lincoln Plaza in 1994.
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