I’ve been hearing about coming back for 2nds at 2nd’s. One Sunday lunch, Bubba and I decided to check it out for the first time. 2nd’s stands where defunct Mag:Net Café, popular for its rockband nights, used to be at the Wumaco Building at the Fort. Situated on the second floor, it is hard to miss which button to hit inside the elevator. On the 2nd floor, a gorgeous huge wooden panel door opens to the handsome interiors of 2nds.
There is a coat hanger by the right side of the entrance, a big bar with numerous empty wine and liquor bottles hanging by the countertop, black and white photos framed on the wall, aristocratic upholstered seats and a massive shelf at the far end of the dining room. The book shelf appears to be the focal point with its shelves containing Bread of Life book among other books, pyramids, old Batman photo, classic aluminum movie tape cases, old monopoly, encyclopedias, and 3-tiered silver tin lunchboxes of forgotten times. It just completes the whole brown motif and makes me wonder if that shelf is actually a secret door to another era. 60s blues music plays in the background.
If not for their modern take of comfort food and Filipino favorites, I’d think we were at an American mafia’s library waiting to discuss our mob’s next target in lower Manhattan.
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