Tom’s Restaurant is a diner located at 2880 Broadway (on the corner of 112th Street)
in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.
Frequented by artists, musicians, comedians, students and faculty of nearby Columbia University, it has been owned and operated by the Greek-American family of Minas Zoulis since the 1940s.
Tom’s Restaurant was the locale that inspired Suzanne Vega’s 1987 song “Tom’s Diner”. Later, its exterior became famous worldwide thanks to the popular sitcom Seinfeld, since Jerry Seinfeld’s eponymous character and his friends regularly gathered to eat and chat at the diner, de facto placing Tom’s Restaurant in living rooms all over the world and in the hearts of million of people, who maybe never even crossed its doors. Until today.
This feature length documentary highlights past and present owners, client
