There’s a feature in the August 1981 issue of D Magazine about Ninfa Laurenzo and her “enchilada empire.”
“The popularity of Ninfas restaurants isn’t really rooted in the quality of the food or the friendliness of the service,” writes Jerry Lazar. “It stems from something more intangible than that. It’s Ninfa herself as portrayed in the madonna-like photograph hanging in each restaurant’s foyer: she sits ensconced in a spreading peacock chair, lit by an overhead spotlight and occasionally flanked by little urns of ivy. She is the perfect heroine, larger than life and almost too good, and kind, and rich to be… well, believed.”
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