A neighboring patron, a Long Island real-estate developer out on a girls' night-charmed to be offered a bite of our paccheri with Sunday sauce, large enough to require its own tray-confirmed. "I love all these private clubs," she said, ticking off a roomful of acquaintances and notables: the designer Ronny Kobo at a table of nine, some owners of the Setai hotel, a Trump-connected Israeli American heiress-divorcée. That wasn't even everyone. "All the Syrian Jews are here," she said.
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