The Polo Bar 🍨

All lines taken directly from Yelp and Tripadvisor reviews of The Polo Bar at 1 E 55th St, New York, NY 10022.

The Polo Bar

After 7 days
A lady standing under a
Stunning equestrian hunter
Unites the frontier with the erudite

I found it strange being summer
Mismatched portraits, fireplaces,
Lots of pretty people
A crab tart
Fort Knox

It was like the Pope blessed it himself
Down to the peppermills
Fresh bed from a basket
The lovely lady
The guy from Morocco
A family of horse lovers

They instantly know
The place to be in the upper
Terrible feeling that money buys
So good luck
Moscow
With a splash of lemon

(Not a fish place)
To cut a long story short, 
We always cherish the most difficult things to attain
Like having a conversation in an elevator
I’m laughing now

Who doesn’t know what snapper is? 
(Maybe I’m sensitive.)
The lovely lady
Willing to accommodate a child’s requests
A dessert which was fabulously sickly

Another time and another place
She could have frozen the entrails off a rabbit
Finally prompting me to seek out the barman, 
The guy from Morocco

Another time and another place
Never had to search for him
Outside the Tokyo tuna auction
Packed to the gills 
Greeted a million times

A few years from now you’ll only recall the ambience
Sans the cigar smoke
The iced prawns were heaven
Fresh and briny 

I’m laughing now
Huge steaks, lots of wasps
A family of horse lovers
Conversations of their young children 
fall on deaf ears

I can certainly live a very happy life
It’s no secret
I can certainly live a very happy life
I would rather have had just an apology

— Daisy Alioto

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