For roughly a decade after World War I, a group of New York writers, critics, and actors met almost daily for lunch at the Algonquin Hotel, trading insults and one-liners that ended up in newspaper columns across the country. The film traces the circle around Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, and drama critic Alexander Woollcott, a heavyset former Army sergeant turned New York Times critic whose acid wit made him a minor celebrity in his own right. Archival photographs, period recordings, and interviews with people who knew members of the group reconstruct how the Round Table shaped Broadway reviews, magazine humor, and the founding of The New Yorker. The film also tracks what happened once the lunches stopped: careers that flourished in Hollywood and on Broadway, friendships that curdled, and the toll of alcohol and ambition on a group that had once seemed inseparable. Narration and firsthand testimony keep the focus on personalities rather than nostalgia, showing why a decade of lunchtime banter left such a lasting mark on American letters.