** more long lunches: Why Wall Street's steakhouses are quiet these days
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Steps from the New York Stock Exchange, only a handful of tables are occupied at Bobby Van’s Steakhouse. Across the street, Reserve Cut has scores of empty seats. A few blocks away at Delmonico’s, one of the few diners is the restaurant’s own hostess, seated at the end of a half-empty bar.
It’s lunchtime on Wall Street, but it’d be hard to tell by peeking inside some of its most famed establishments. The TVs are silently tuned to the business news, documenting a**ther topsy-turvy day in the U.S. stock market — and one that’s, yet again, kept traders and bankers chained to their desks.