Bobby Torre, the Soul of J.G. Melon, Dies at 81
New York City maintains a certain lineage of restaurants worthy of the old-fashioned term “saloon.” This line began with P.J. Clarke’s, named after a turn-of-the-20th-century Irish immigrant. In the 1960s, a Clarke’s manager and maître d’, Joe Allen, opened a theater district establishment bearing his own name. A decade later, two of Mr. Allen’s bartenders…