Filmed Here: ‘Gossip Girl’

So here’s the dilemma: New York’s Restaurant Week has been extended, you’ve got a friend visiting from Canada, and you’d like to take advantage of the deal as a special treat. But how to choose just one of the 150 participating restaurants before making your reservation? Well, if you’re a sucker for teen television dramas (guilty), then naturally you book at the restaurant recently featured on “Gossip Girl.” Which is how I found myself at Butter for an unfashionably early dinner on Sunday night.

(Butter, in case you haven’t been keeping track, is the restaurant where Jenny Humphrey—aka Little J, the “poor” girl who lives with her aging rock star dad in a fabulous DUMBO loft—and Blair—the teen queen of the Upper East Side—staged a major showdown on Jenny’s 15th birthday back in season one.)

Unlike Katz’s Deli, which happily embraced its role as a movie tourism shrine, Butter didn’t offer any tangible traces of its “Gossip Girl” moment: there was no sign to mark the table where Blair was cruelly stood up by her formerly loyal minions and then plotted her revenge. There were also, sadly, no underage, overdressed teen girls drinking martinis and daydreaming about the humiliations they would inflict on each other the next day at school. Still, there were delicious pre-dinner cocktails (champagne infused with rosemary and mint), and a tasty three course meal, too—and that was good enough for me. Here’s a clip of Blair’s Butter-set humiliation:

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