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b'Tony Cibel on Phyllis Richmond\'s review of Tony & Joe\'s ~\\n\\n"Phyllis Richmond said, \'Tony & Joe\'s, a contender on the waterfront.\' And ever since that, boom we took off like crazy and 30 years later we\'re still going."\\n\\nTony Cibel - Tony & Joe\'s Seafood Place 30th Year Celebration\\n\\nA Ockershausen:\\tThis is Andy Ockershausen and this is a special edition of Our Town. And I have a wonderful, wonderful friend and acquaintance by the name of Tony Cibel, who is the man who started some of the most successful restaurants in Our Town. And Tony, I can\'t believe it\'s 30 years sinceyou opened Tony & Joe\\u2019s in October of 1987.\\nTony Cibel:\\tThat\'s absolutely true and I can\'t believe it either, 30 years has flown by. But of course we have the best seafood restaurant in town, Tony & Joe\\u2019s, with a magnificent view of the Kennedy Center. \\nA Ockershausen:\\tWell I\'ll never forget, after the restaurant had been open like two months you had a review in the Washington Post that was a knockout.\\nTony Cibel:\\tSpectacular. \\nA Ockershausen:\\tIt really put you on the map.\\nTony Cibel:\\tPhyllis Richmond said, "Tony & Joe\\u2019s, a contender on the waterfront." And ever since that, boom we took off like crazy and 30 years later we\'re still going. \\nA Ockershausen:\\tWell Tony, obviously once people sampled it they came back. And they came back and back and back. And now the world has changed as we both know in 30 years. There\'s a whole new world out there that are finding out about your restaurant. \\nTony Cibel:\\tThat\'s true, that\'s very true. We\'re going to run some specials for our anniversary month in October. \\nA Ockershausen:\\tThe whole month of October?\\nTony Cibel:\\tThe whole month of October you can go online to tonyandjoes.com and read about the specials. A lot of them will be priced from 1987. \\nA Ockershausen:\\tWow! \\nTony Cibel:\\tCorrect.\\nA Ockershausen:\\tMaybe we ought to sample those before you do it.\\nTony Cibel:\\tOh no, I sample them daily. \\nA Ockershausen:\\tWell Tony, the things that I know about the restaurant, let\'s say it started with your interest in the restaurant business with the Dancing Crab. I don\'t think a lot of people know that there was a Tony Cibel before there was a restaurant. You had a liquor store and very successful liquor store.\\nTony Cibel:\\tAnd I also had a carryout over in Northeast called Soul Palace. That was my first restaurant.\\nA Ockershausen:\\tAnd it was successful.\\n Tony Cibel:\\tVery successful.\\nA Ockershausen:\\tAnd now you\'re back in Northeast in Ivy City.\\nTony Cibel:\\tIvy City Smokehouse, which has just been open for a year and it is taking off. The Tavern upstairs and then downstairs our smoker. We\'re going to go national with our smoking products, Ivy City Smoke products.\\nA Ockershausen:\\tFood products, huh?\\nTony Cibel:\\tThat\'s correct, Ivy City Smokehouse fish. And it\'s taking off. It\'s a wonderful product. We\'re in country clubs around here. We\'re in delicatessens. \\nA Ockershausen:\\tDo you offer an Ivy City menu at Tony & Joe\\u2019s?\\nTony Cibel:\\tWe have a lot of the product -\\nA Ockershausen:\\t- a lot of the product here.\\nTony Cibel:\\t- at Tony & Joe\\u2019s. And it will say right on the menu, Ivy City Smoke House -\\nA Ockershausen:\\t- Right I have noticed that.\\nTony Cibel:\\t- Smoked Salmon and so forth. Yeah.\\nA Ockershausen:\\tYou\'ve gotten to be a conglomerate now with Nick\'s Riverside Grill and you\'re still in to that as I recall.\\nTony Cibel:\\tYes.\\nA Ockershausen:\\tNobody could operate that but you.\\nTony Cibel:\\tWell, my son Nick, who\'s a wonderful boy . . . I went to Florida one weekend, for the weekend, and it was Riverside Grill when I left. When I came back it said, Nick\'s Riverside Grill. I said, "Nick, I didn\'t get the check." What\'s the story here, you know? But he\'s been running it for 25 years.\\nA Ockershausen:\\tNo way.\\nTony Cibel:\\t25 years.\\nA Ockershausen:\\t25 years! Come on, Tony. \\nTony Cibel:\\tAnd Tony & Joe\\u2019s is the only original restaurant at Washington Harbour.\\nA Ockershausen:\\tI understand, you survived.'