Fans of Old Ukrainian Restaurant Meet in Catskills

New York, NY —

It seems like every few months in New York, another beloved bar or restaurant closes down because rents have gone too high. But if you think those favorite hang outs fade away in people’s memories, here’s a story for you. This Memorial Day weekend, loyal patrons of an Italian and Ukrainian food restaurant that closed 23 years ago are holding a reunion this weekend at a resort in the Catskills.

WNYC’s Marianne McCune has more about a restaurant where you might find the owner at a corner table snapping the ends off green beens, and customers ate a pizza they called Garbage Pie. It was called orchidia or if you’re Ukrainian, ‘or-kid-DAY-uh.’

Orchidia's Garbage Pie is memorialized at Two Boots, an East Village pizzeria that opened just as Orchidia was closing. Two Boots sells a pizza called Orchidia Pie.