Tom's Restaurant

{{Short description|Diner in Manhattan, New York City}}

{{Distinguish|Tom's Restaurant (Prospect Heights)|Tom's Restaurant and Bar|Tom's Bar}}

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Morningside Heights, Manhattan

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Tom's Restaurant is a diner located at 2880 Broadway (on the corner of West 112th Street) in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/restaurants/1002207994638/toms-restaurant/details.html|title=Tom's Restaurant|work=The New York Times|accessdate=April 4, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130409123940/https://www.nytimes.com/restaurants/1002207994638/toms-restaurant/details.html|archive-date=April 9, 2013}} It is on the ground floor of Columbia University's Armstrong Hall, home to the Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Frequented by Columbia students and faculty, it was founded by Tom Glikas in the 1940s and after a sale at some undetermined point has been owned and operated by the Greek-American family of Minas Zoulis, who retained the original name.{{cite news |url=https://tucson.com/lifestyles/toms-restaurant-is-still-a-shrine-for-seinfeld-fans/article_6be29759-4c4a-5769-ae2e-fd8fdbb858d6.html |title=Real 'Seinfeld' Restaurant Is New York Staple |last=Vines |first=Richard |date=March 13, 2008 |publisher=Bloomberg |via=Arizona Daily Star|accessdate=April 4, 2013|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220930163412/https://tucson.com/lifestyles/toms-restaurant-is-still-a-shrine-for-seinfeld-fans/article_6be29759-4c4a-5769-ae2e-fd8fdbb858d6.html|archive-date=September 30, 2022|url-status=live}}

Senator John McCain often ate at Tom's when he visited his daughter Meghan when she was a student at Columbia.{{cite web |url=http://allday.today.com/_news/2008/09/09/4377908-11-questions-for-meghan-mccain |title=11 questions for Meghan McCain |date=September 9, 2008 |work=Allday.Today.com |accessdate=April 4, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130203014303/http://allday.today.com/_news/2008/09/09/4377908-11-questions-for-meghan-mccain |archive-date=February 3, 2013}} Likewise, Barack Obama frequented the restaurant as a student at Columbia.{{cite web |last=Cowan |first=Alison Leigh |url=https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/20/recollections-of-obamas-ex-roommate/|title=Recollections of Obama's Ex-Roommate |date=January 20, 2009 |work=The New York Times |accessdate=August 11, 2018}}