Sardi's has hosted opening-night parties since 1927, and its walls of celebrity caricatures — more than a thousand of them — form Broadway's unofficial portrait gallery. Tradition holds that a new caricature is unveiled when a star earns their place in theater history; being 'hung at Sardi's' remains a genuine career milestone.
The continental menu is a time capsule — shrimp Sardi, steak tartare prepared with ceremony — and that's precisely the appeal. Sit upstairs among the caricatures, order a martini, and you're inside a living piece of theater history. Tourist-heavy, yes; but the Broadway crowd never fully left, especially late.
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