NYC Dining with Wine

[Thomas]

That, to me, is the truly great wonder of NYC: a single interest can support a business. Rhone-only, indeed!

Innkeeper, do you think you can get a business like that going in Maine? Here in the Keuka Lake region my wife and I harbor a joke business idea: The NPR Bar. It is an "upscale" wine bar that plays only National Public Radio on the radio (and if we put in a television, only PBS) and of course we will offer two-hundred variations of the simple cappuccino--in the largest containers known to humankind. To appreciate the joke, you have to drop in on the hundreds of "sports bars" around the area, not to mention the kind of wine they serve and the dark, muddy coffee....