STILL COOKING

When Ma Maison shuttered the doors to its Astroturf- and umbrella-strewn dining room the other day, management facetiously suggested that until a proposed new Ma Maison is built, customers should check out Pink’s, Ontra Cafeteria or the Apple Pan.

That’s fine for customers. But where does that leave the play “Tamara,” which has served a Ma Maison-catered buffet at each intermission since the show opened in May, 1984?

A spokesman for the decadent Italian melodrama wasn’t shedding tears. He said arrangements have been made for restaurant owner Patrick Terrail to keep cooking. Ads have been changed from “Champagne, wine, buffet, desserts by Ma Maison” to “Catering by Patrick Terrail of Ma Maison.” For $45 to $75 a ticket, depending on the performance.