NEW YORK CITY — A New York Metropolis restaurant within the East Village is experiencing a resurgence after being featured in FX’s ‘Love Story’ as the primary date spot of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette’s first date spot.
Because the actors shared their first date dinner on display, Panna II Backyard Indian Restaurant has seen a surge in reservations.
Though the 2 did not precisely have their first date on the restaurant, they did frequent the restaurant usually throughout off-hours.
“Normally earlier than six so they might come earlier than rush hour and be the one ones,” proprietor Boshir Khan stated.
He stated the couple would keep away from paparazzi and conceal below the well-known lights contained in the restaurant.
Intercourse and the Metropolis and Daredevil have been additionally filmed contained in the restaurant.
After ‘Love Story’ premiered, Khan stated enterprise has gone up wherever from 20 to 70 p.c.
The FX/ Hulu sequence ‘Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette’ shares the complicated and heartbreaking journey of a pair whose non-public love turned a nationwide obsession.
New episodes drop on Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET on Hulu.
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