After 57 years, the Doodle closes 1.30.08
The Yankee Doodle Coffee Shop, famous for its fried hamburgers, eggs and pigs in a blanket, and affectionately known to Yalies past and present as “the Doodle,” will not open its doors today, tomorrow — or ever again. The Doodle was 57. The restaurant’s passing was not completely unexpected. Friends of the Doodle said the restaurant — considered by many to be a historic Yale landmark — had fallen on hard times and was struggling to maintain its business in the face of rising costs and a steadily declining patronage.
