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Clifton Park

Once Upon a Time…

2 February 2010 by Suzannah Otis 1 Comment

This is part 1 in the All About Me series for NaBloWriMo that I’m taking part in for February.


So I figured what better place to start than the beginning right? My parents met in Boston, when my dad was working in the same restaurant as my mom’s ex-husband – my siblings dad. Her ex-husband was working there on the side, his actual career was that of a high school English teacher. My dad had moved up from waiter to Maitre D’ of this particular place, The Cafe Budapest. This was a 5-star Hungarian restaurant run by a feisty woman named Edith Ban, a Holocaust survivor with her concentration camp number tattooed on her arm, a flair for business and wearing beautiful white dresses. The restaurant was famous for its cuisine as well as its color-themed rooms and was featured briefly in the movie The Housesitter.

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Filed Under: Family Memories Tagged With: 1980s, Boston, Cafe Budapest, Capitol Hill Club, childhood, Clifton Park, Fairfax, Family Memories, NaBloPoMo

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