WTFNYC

Don and I went on a search tonight for the Kabab Cafe, an Egyptian restaurant in Astoria famous for its offals (sweetbreads, organ meat, etc.) and northern Egyptian cuisine. We arrive at the address, 25-12 Steinway Street, and the shop looks closed: gate down, lights off. Don calls the phone number to the restaurant -- their kitchen is open until 10, and yes, the address is 25-12 Steinway Street. We look again. Nothing.

We get home (after eating at Jerusalem Nights, which was mostly empty except for a birthday party for a 10 year-old girl going on in the back) and look up the location again on Google maps. Plain as day, the storefront is easy to notice, well-labeled with its name in the window and everything. Did we fall into a Twilight Zone hole on Steinway?