Hi all,

I'm trying to remember the name of the restaurant in the 60s & 70s on the east side of the Concourse just north of Fordham Road (across from Alexander's.) There's still a restaurant there but it no longer has the same name.

Mary O'Riordan

WAS IT "SUTTERS" OR WAS IT "CAROLS"

I don't remember Carol's at all. I was probably long gone from the Bronx when it was around. Sutter's I remember as a very classy bakery. I don't recall if it was also a restaurant, or if I ever knew. The only restaurants I cared about in the mid-fifties served hot dogs or pizza.

I asked someone from the Bronx who is older than me and they say Sutter's might be the name.

I wasn't much into going to restaurants when I lived in the Bronx. Just like Bronx Shepard, it was mostly pizza and hot dogs for me.

Thanks you guys. It was indeed Sutter's.

Now, I'm thinking it might have been Carol's. There was a Sutter's but apparently it was a bakery . . .

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Originally posted by Mary O'Riordan:
Now, I'm thinking it might have been Carol's. There was a Sutter's but apparently it was a bakery . . .

Mary, my wife assures me that Sutter's was both a bakery and restaurant. Her mother used to take her there when they went shopping. Now, that's not to say that there wasn't a Carol's too at some point. Glad I could confuse you a little.

Thanks for the clarification.: )

Ot was Carol's. We went there after my High School graduation at the Paradie. Sutter's Baker might have been located on Jerome nr. Van Cortland Park- the Woodlawn Statio. They had butter cookies.

Thank you!

Hi Bonnie, Sutters was located on the Grand Concourse just off the corner at Fordham Rd.

Are you talking about Corky's? Across the Concourse from Alexander's, on the North-east
corner. Sutter's was a bakery and I don't remember a Carol's.
Tina

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Originally posted by Mary O'Riordan:
Hi all,

I'm trying to remember the name of the restaurant in the 60s & 70s on the east side of the Concourse just north of Fordham Road (across from Alexander's.) There's still a restaurant there but it no longer has the same name.

Mary O'Riordan

It was a place with booths where one could have thick burgers, a few doors up of the northeast corner of Fordham Rd. and the Grand Concourse.

A few things come to mind, since we lived a couple of blocks away from there. Next to Albrecht's dress shop was a burger place where they cooked the burgers in the window, I can't quite remember the name. The restaurant directly across from Alexander's on the E. side of the Concourse where you get the uptown #1 bus was Corky's. Carol's was on the N. side of Alexander's. I'll work on remembering the name of that place, maybe it's what you were thinking of.

Billy I hope you can remember..this is driving me nuts...I checked all my Bronx books and can't find a picture at all

I did a little research and I think I found it, it looks like it was called Big Burger. Here's the url if you want to check out the picture. It's small, but I don't think it could be anything else, it's definitely a three letter word followed by what looks like a six letter word.

http://cdm.metro.org:8080/u?/lc,213

Yea Billy, that's the one..thanks..I checked with a magnifying glass and it says 'BIG BURGER'

But that isn't the Concourse. It's Fordham Rd.

There was only one restaurant on the E. side of the Concourse across from Alexanders, that was Corky's, which was basically a diner. There was a counter in the front and booths in the rear, they served all sorts of food. I used to meet my mom there after getting off the D train on my way home from work and we'd have dinner there. I've eaten there many many times.

Sutter's was a bakery and they used to have a tea room, but that was really only for cakes and pastries and sandwiches at lunch time.

Thank you very much.