The diner from that song you can't name finally gets its close-up.
Tom's Restaurant is a diner located at 2880 Broadway (on the corner of 112th Street) in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. Frequented by artists, musicians, comedians, students and faculty of nearby Columbia University, it has been owned and operated by the Greek-American family of Minas Zoulis since the 1940s. Tom's Restaurant was the locale that inspired Suzanne Vega's 1987 song "Tom's Diner".
Production
Captures the soul of a place millions walked past unknowingly.
Writing
Treats a mundane setting with surprising emotional weight.
Director
Gian Franco Morini
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Suzanne Vega wrote 'Tom's Diner' about the restaurant's exterior—she never actually went inside until after the song became famous.
The same diner became Monk's Café in Seinfeld, making it possibly the most famous restaurant location in pop history that most people never recognized.
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