NEW YORK CITY — A New York City restaurant in the East Village is experiencing a resurgence after being featured in FX’s “Love Story” as the first date spot of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette.<\/p>\n
Since the actors shared their first date dinner on screen, Panna II Garden Indian Restaurant has seen a surge in reservations.<\/p>\n
Although the two didn’t exactly have their first date at the restaurant, they did frequent the restaurant often during off-hours.<\/p>\n
“Usually before six so they would come before rush hour and be the only ones,” owner Boshir Khan said.<\/p>\n
He said the couple would stay away from paparazzi and hide under the famous lights inside the restaurant.<\/p>\n
“Sex and the City” and “Daredevil” were also filmed inside the restaurant.<\/p>\n
After “Love Story” premiered, Khan said business has gone up anywhere from 20 to 70%.<\/p>\n
The FX\/ Hulu series “Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette” shares the complex and heartbreaking journey of a couple whose private love became a national obsession.<\/p>\n
New episodes drop on Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET on Hulu.<\/p>\n
Hulu is owned by Disney, the parent company of this station.<\/p>\n
Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK CITY — A New York City restaurant in the East Village is experiencing a resurgence after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[58572,9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":{"0":"post-139482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-58572","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-ny","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-nyc-headlines","13":"tag-nyc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}