Lucy's Bistro and Bistro 111: Closed in Babylon
Lucy's, back in 2004 Credit: Newsday/Jim Peppler
This seems to be a week filled with dead-end phone calls. I was particularly chagrined to get a disconnect message when calling Lucy’s Bistro in Babylon. The charming little place — which has been through several ownerships but continuously served a great burger — had its main entrance in a rear parking lot. Most weekends, though, it was hopping.
To verify that Lucy’s was, indeed, closed, I telephoned Bistro 111, which, until last summer, was an Italian place called Pronto. And I got the identical message.
A call to the Argyle Grill — answered by a live person — confirmed that indeed, both restaurants are now gone from the downtown Babylon scene.
Could it be that the overused term ”bistro” is bad luck in Babylon?
