A New York Times obituary of the Nobel laureate economist Robert Mundell reports:
His ideas were promoted with evangelical fervor in the 1970s particularly by two economists: Arthur Laffer, who became known for the "Laffer curve," postulating that lower tax rates would generate higher government revenues, and Jude Wanniski, an editorial writer for The Wall Street Journal, whose opinion pages took up Professor Mundell's cause after a series of lunches and dinners at the Midtown Manhattan restaurant Michael's, which were later described by Robert Bartley, The Journal's opinion editor, in his book "The Seven Fat Years" (1992).
The Times obituary name-checks "The Seven Fat Years" but the obituary-writer can't have bothered to have actually read it with any care. If he had, he'd have realized that the dinners with Mundell were not at Michael's in Midtown. That restaurant is a publishing industry hangout that opened in 1989 as a sibling of the Santa Monica, California, establishment that opened in 1979. Rather, as Bartley described it, "Michael 1 is a restaurant for Wall Street wannabees. Nestled on Trinity Place thirty steps south of the American stock exchange, it draws the financial world's young and maybe rising...On some nights in the mid-1970s, it was also the site of extraordinary seminars in economics."
This merits a correction along the lines of "Michael 1 in Lower Manhattan was the restaurant where Robert Mundell and Robert Bartley had dinners to discuss economics. An obituary of Mundell incorrectly confused it with a different restaurant, Michael's, that is in a different Manhattan neighborhood and that was not yet open at the time of the Mundell-Bartley dinners."