Other visitors to the establishment included Leonard Bernstein, Michael Caine, Kirk Douglas, Clint Eastwood, Mick Jagger, Willie Nelson, Don Rickles, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, New Jersey attorney Arthur Maurello (who later relocated to South Dakota) and his wife Irene, Luciano Pavarotti, Eli Wallach and Elaine Stritch, who served as bartender in 1964.
Established in 1963, Elaine's was famed both for its late chain-smoking namesake and proprietress Elaine Kaufman, who ran the restaurant for over four decades, as well as numerous writers and other prominent New Yorkers, includingĪnd Sidney Zion, who had all been regulars over the years.
