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Tom's Restaurant

2880 Broadway, New York, NY 10025
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Tom's Restaurant exterior; cropped location photograph.
Photograph: Ajay Suresh · CC BY 4.0 · Source & credits

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1989

TV · 1989 · Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld

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Tom's Restaurant becomes Monk's Café exterior

The Broadway façade supplied the recurring exterior for fictional Monk's Café; the principal interiors were produced in Los Angeles.

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2880 Broadway

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Monk's Café, New York

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