The World Famous Lundy Brothers Restaurant Changes Ownership

November 10, 2004, It was announced today that the Brooklyn Landmark, Lundy Brothers Restaurant, once the largest restaurant in the United States, has just transferred operational ownership to the Players Club, a New York Corporation. At the head of this change of arms is the President of the Players Club, Mrs. Afrodite Dimitroulakos, a veteran of the restaurant industry.

The near term goal expressed by Afrodite Dimitroulakos are to bring this "Brooklyn Tradition' back to it's illustrious glory of yesteryear.

"Brooklyn is rich with history and Lundy's has been at the center of this tradition since the 1930's, we are excited about taking on this endeavor and building this fixture in Sheepshead Bay Brooklyn to rival what it was in it's prime', Stated Afrodite Dimitroulakos.

About Lundy Brothers Restaurant

Lundy's is to Brooklyn's culinary world as the Dodgers were to its sports world. But unlike the Dodgers who were swept away from their home base to Los Angeles in 1957, Lundy's was forced to shut down after the death of its founder-owner, Irving Lundy, in 1977, Lundy's was reopened in the same Sheepshead Bay location and has been doing a roaring business there ever since. The original Lundy Brothers restaurant was first opened in 1934 in Sheepshead Bay Brooklyn New York. At one point in time founder Irving Lundy built Lundy's Restaurant to be the largest restaurant in the United States, seating over 2,400.

The Lundy's story is one of those heartwarming rags-to-riches sagas so common to New York City and to Brooklyn in particular. In the early 1900s, the tall, redheaded Irving Lundy started his career by selling clams from a pushcart in Sheepshead Bay.

By the late 1930s, his restaurant was serving seafood to hundreds of people on a summer evening, with hundreds more circling tables, peering over the shoulders of other diners, eagerly waiting for a table to become available. While some Brooklyn families flocked to Lundy's to celebrate birthdays, anniversaries and Mother's and Father's days, others made Sundays at Lundy's and the shore dinner their custom after a day at Coney Island or Brighton Beach.

Today, Lundy's is a true landmark in the heart of Brooklyn and continues to draw people from all over the world to have a meal at the world famous and historic Lundy Brothers Restaurant.

Source: Lundy Brothers Restaurant 718-743-0022
Website: www.lundysrestaurant.com