Cozy Soup & Burger • 1972

Nine-ounce burgers and bowls of thick split pea soup anchored this Greenwich Village diner through five decades, from its 1972 opening by Greek immigrant brothers Mike and George Stratidis to its June 2026 closure. Third-generation owner John Stratidis carried on the family's round-the-clock tradition, serving NYU students, theater workers, and celebrities like Adam Sandler in chrome-trimmed booths that became a living archive of pre-digital New York. The split pea soup, simmered for twelve hours with ham hocks and Greek technique, still draws regulars until the final day.