Since 1965, Joe Allen has been Broadway's cafeteria — the Restaurant Row standby where chorus members, stagehands, and stars eat the same burgers under posters of famous flops, the bar's cheerfully morbid signature decor. The room has outlived nearly every trend in New York dining by refusing to acknowledge any of them.
The menu is American comfort done properly: the meatloaf and the burger are institutions, the martinis are honest, and the kitchen understands curtain time to the minute. Book a 5:30 table for a 7 o'clock show, or come after the final bow when the room refills with the night's casts unwinding.
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