Description
Lundy's in its heyday was reported to be the largest restaurant in the United States, seating, per various reports, 2,400 to 2,800 patrons. The 1997 version seated 700-800. The restaurant was decorated with the letters "F.W.I.L.," standing for "Frederick William Irving Lundy". Irving Lundy's brothers Clayton and Stanley died in January 1920 in a boating accident while tending the family's clam beds in Jamaica Bay. Another brother, Allen, survived and helped Irving manage the restaurant. Food critic Mimi Sheraton wrote that her favorite dishes included the "Huckleberry pie (not blueberry), biscuits and Manhattan clam chowder"
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