Mouquin's

> In Monsieur Mouquin’s cellar people are rather Bohemian, not to say friendly; for it is the rendezvous of artists, literary men and journalists… - [Hearts and Masks](https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/17390/pg17390-images.html), Harold McGrath [Mouquin](https://www.mouquin.com/mouquin-house)'s downtown restaurant occupied the Fulton–Nassau/Ann Street block and became a favorite haunt of writers, newspapermen, and politicians. Harold MacGrath does not need to build a bohemian atmosphere from scratch; the place supplies it. That is why Mouquin’s recurs so effectively in turn-of-the-century writing: it is already socially charged, a room where wit, flirtation, and literary chance encounters feel plausible before the plot has even begun.

New York, New York, United States