I'm thirty years old, and I'm dating myself in saying that I remember Horn and Hardart's! My family lived on Long Island when I was a boy, and my mother would take my brother and I by train into the city for day trips. She took us to Horn and Hardart's for lunch on a few of our day trips into the city. I'm sure my mother was trying to re-live some of the nostalgia that she remembered about the automats when she was a girl taking day trips into the city with her parents. My mother would hype up a trip to Horn and Hardart's like it was the greatest thing in the world! It's great to see that a new generation of people will be able to experience the wonder of the automat!

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Some really slow thinkers here, confusing

format with substance. An automat is an automat. How and what food the automat owner supplies is another topic.

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Yeah, on its face, it does look like another painfully hip thing to make a buck off the 20-somethings. Still, I want to check it out because I have fond memories of Horn and Hardart and I've been saying for years that someday, someone would be smart enough to bring the automat concept back to NYC. Besides, in the final analysis, if the food is good and the prices stay low, the place will do well, trendy or not.

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Check out my review of the book, The Automat: The History, Recipes, and Allure of Horn & Hardart's Masterpiece by Lorraine Diehl. It'll give you an idea how people really depended on the Automat for their everyday meals.

Dear bumbaclaut,

Given that I an neither 60-something nor 50-something, it is unsurprising that my memory did not serve me well enough to know that this type of fast-food was available in U.S. cafeterias in the 40s and 50s.

I just went there tonight. Sadly they were out of spam musubi. The roast pork buns were excellent though.

Joho: Rat feces and cockroaches? Yeah right!

La Leone: Why are you such a hater???

Bamn is awesome!

I just ate at the Bamn automat last night on my way to get drinks. On a 1-10 scale, I give it a 10. The decor was upbeat and fun and I liked the music. The place was really clean as well.

The food was affordable and tasted great. I ate the spam musubi, the mozzarella sticks and the green tea soft serve. After just spending $5, I was full and satisfied. I plan on trying the mac and cheese kroket, looks tasty.

I love this concept and the presentation and the location is great! I plan on returning again and again!

Ahh yes, the lion head spout. I used to drink from that to sharpen up for a little of the old ultraviolence.

The only reason to go to the automat was to see your coffee come out of the Lion head spout.

Growing up we couldn't afford the food in the displays and I was too short to see what it was.

And, when I did go to the automat at 42nd and mad, I ate the table cafeteria style food, not the automat sandwiches.

Hmmm... the orginal Automats of 1930's Time Square used foound like Lamb Pot Pie for example, that would be able to sit well...this Automat makes fried food that has to be thrown out aften 20 minutes.... Also, the orginal automats had places to sit down. And, ath the new automat if you order fries for example, they have a person there to serve them...kind of defeats the purpose eh?

I think I understand the backlash. It's stupid and gimmicky. So they combined the menus of several well-known places in the area and stuffed them into big pink vending machines.

I do give them props for creativity w/the "spam musubi", but I have never wanted Spam in my body and this still won't make me do it.

Other than that I see this as marketed to those w interested in having their own "retro" experience but thru technicolor, trendy, & simulated iPod branding. Typical of this generation, unpurchased food will be thrown away every 15 min. I find that disturbing. Yes, there are plenty of places that DON'T waste everything. It all depends on the integrity of the owners. I wonder if BAMN will close once the majority of downtown stops by once to check it out. I'm probably wrong. BAMN! also reminds me of those fucking horrible Emeril toothpaste commericals.

There's already reviews on Yelp. bamn!@yelp!

As a casual bystander and neighbor, why is there such a backlash? Is this place the next Le Souke?