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" Just before the Loews Regency Hotel officially opened its doors again last week, Jonathan Tisch was getting worried. &amp;quot;For 54 weeks&amp;quot;\u2014the time it took to finish the hotel&amp;#039;s $100 million renovation\u2014&amp;quot;I have been nervous, concerned, worried whether people would come back,&amp;quot; Tisch, the Loews Hotels chairman, said. He was also nervous about how the new menu would be received. For the first time, the breakfast fare was in the hands of an outside partner, although those partners, the folks behind Sant Ambroeus on Madison Avenue, are certainly well practiced. He put in his own old standby order: fruit plate and whole wheat toast. &amp;quot;The big test is going to be watching my wife eat her bacon,&amp;quot; he said as a waiter served his wife, Lizzie. &amp;quot;The drum roll please. This is an important moment.&amp;quot; Tisch needn&amp;#039;t have been concerned. Lizzie gave the bacon two thumbs up and the regular crowd returned in full and customary force; in the room sat former police commissioner Ray Kelly, current police commissioner Bill Bratton and his wife Ricki Kleiman (they first met at the hotel a few years ago), state comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, city comptroller Scott Stringer, attorney general Eric Schneiderman, Rev. Al Sharpton, Spike Lee, and former mayor David Dinkins.  Tisch grew up in the hotel\u2014he called himself &amp;quot;the male Eloise&amp;quot;\u2014and he remembered how the power breakfast was born. &amp;quot;Some 40 years ago, New York City was going through a severe financial crisis and the city leaders needed a place to get together. My father invited Lew Rudin and Felix Rohatyn to the hotel for breakfast,&amp;quot; he said. And because his father, Preston Robert Tisch, was the former postmaster general, co-owner (along with the Mara family) of the New York Giants, and the chief of the Loews Corporation, the rest of the polticial, business, and cultural elite soon followed. The first morning in the newly revamped breakfast was invite-only, but even with the new Sant Ambroeus menu, the regulars were settling into old habits. Sharpton munched on whole wheat toast and drank English breakfast tea with Spike Lee at a booth near the center of the room. &amp;quot;Sharpton will only sit at that one table going forward,&amp;quot; breakfast ma\u00EEtre d&amp;#039; Leigh Wynn said. Dinkins sat at a neighboring booth with his son, David Dinkins, Jr., a Showtime network executive. Former GOP mayoral candidate Joe Lhota sat at a corner table and ordered eggs and bacon. And in another sure sign of the return of the power breakfast, a row of black SUVs idled throughout the meal. Wynn seemed almost content. Could she share any other interesting regular orders? &amp;quot;Larry King will only eat Honey Nut Cheerios,&amp;quot; Wynn said, with a look of concern. &amp;quot;If we don&amp;#039;t have those in-house he&amp;#039;s out of here.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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