Tiny Tuesday

I do like this wall of matches.  I ate at Mama Leone's in NYC.  It's last location was in the theatre district and it was far from small.

The restaurant got its start when opera singer Enrico Caruso convinced Luisa Leone to operate a twenty-seat dining service in her living room at fifty cents a person. Barely more than a block away from the “Old” Metropolitan Opera House, Leone’s living room overflowed on opening night, with Caruso’s invited guests seated on wine crates. Leone’s husband Gerome ran a wine store downstairs and kept the restaurant going on other nights by inviting customers to dinner.