Entering Soda Shop is like stepping into a Norman Rockwell painting; it is a picture-perfect soda fountain of old, with a tidy clutter of nostalgia like gumball jars, marble tabletops, and all the shiny colorful stuff that made you hyperventilate as a kid. And it began, appropriately, with an egg cream. Soda Shop changes personality throughout the day, beginning with a quiet breakfast populated...
On a busy stretch of Chambers Street in Tribeca, Soda Shop evokes simpler times with its tin ceilings, stained glass, marble fireplace, dated bric-a-brac and an eclectic mix of wrought-iron ice cream chairs, club seats and oak hardbacks. The menu matches the quaint shop’s décor, with comfort food such as cheeseburgers and chicken pot pie along with calories-be-darned desserts including banana...