Rosoff's Victory

2. Rosoff’s Victory Room, 147 West 43rd Street The Victory Room was located in Rosoff’s Hotel, owned by one Max Rosoff, who came to New York at the age of 12 as an orphan late in the 19th century. Rosoff initially worked as a salami slicer, but by the age of 19 had founded his own restaurant on Graham Avenue in Williamsburg, and soon owned a series of restaurants in Manhattan. The Victory Room dates to 1918; it closed in 1981. In his 1968 restaurant guidebook, Craig Claiborne gives it no stars, and says rather derisively, “The menu is American, the portions are copious, and the boast of the menu is ‘All you can eat.’”