But came to type Jazz Standard/Blue Smoke Flatiron.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, December 5, 2020 5:16 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Hard to think of this place as in any way old or weird, but still long enough running and significant enough to be an NYC institution, crazy to hear this
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 6 December 2020 05:47 (five years ago)
Spain on W13th, apparentlyhttps://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/nyregion/a-bohemian-pedigree-and-free-tapas-in-greenwich-village.html
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 6 December 2020 14:36 (five years ago)
Oh man Spain really was old and weird. You could get reliably stuffed there, the free appetizers alone almost did the job. Authenticity was questionable - I had to send back some awful gazpacho once.
― Josefa, Sunday, 6 December 2020 15:03 (five years ago)
I guess the old school "Little Spain" of the West Village has dwindled to two places: Sevilla and the refurbished La Nacional on 14th St
― Josefa, Sunday, 6 December 2020 15:47 (five years ago)
xpost RIP. Loved that place. Went for years for tapas and cheap wine pre-clubbing/bar hopping. The paella could be hit or miss but wonderful when it was on.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 6 December 2020 15:59 (five years ago)
Bunch of places here: https://www.curbed.com/article/nyc-businesses-closed-2020-pandemic.html
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 December 2020 16:17 (five years ago)
The Paris Hotel/Café, 119 South Street, at Peck Sliphas reopened after dealing with Sandy damage.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 December 2020 16:20 (five years ago)
Closed back in May, according to this: https://tribecacitizen.com/2020/05/06/after-147-years-at-the-seaport-the-paris-cafe-is-closing-for-good/
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 December 2020 16:23 (five years ago)
omg that list
Lotta closures in my neighborhood I didn't even know about
Can only assume it will be much much worse by the end of winter
― Josefa, Monday, 7 December 2020 16:53 (five years ago)
It's like we are at home on out-of-signal FTL spaceships and don't know what to expect when we finally slow down and land.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 December 2020 16:56 (five years ago)
Should have said LOS WFH FTL spacesship. Anyway, your asteroid/dinosaur scenario was already better.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 December 2020 17:45 (five years ago)
which btw Curbed stole from me, haha
― Josefa, Monday, 7 December 2020 17:58 (five years ago)
Oh yeah
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 December 2020 18:02 (five years ago)
Truth be told, I was sort of surprised Angry Wade's was still open, although I have walked by it relatively recently.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 December 2020 18:54 (five years ago)
I'll really miss Bar Robert from that general area (Boerum Hill)
― Josefa, Monday, 7 December 2020 19:19 (five years ago)
That's too bad. I would go there now and again when I was in the neighborhood, joined forces with some strangers once for Trivia Night.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 December 2020 19:34 (five years ago)
Angry wade’s seemed to have a decent outdoor setup and no above-the-establishment tennants so it’s a little weird to me they’re gone
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 7 December 2020 21:14 (five years ago)
Seems like he is concentrating on one of his other restaurants.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 December 2020 21:40 (five years ago)
https://www.brooklynpaper.com/angry-wades-bar-closes-after-21-years/
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 December 2020 21:42 (five years ago)
Don’t think we mentioned Gotham Bar and Grill.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 December 2020 21:53 (five years ago)
Or The Cupping Room Cafe.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 December 2020 21:54 (five years ago)
Ah! I missed that
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 7 December 2020 22:21 (five years ago)
Which?
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 December 2020 22:23 (five years ago)
Wade’s
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 7 December 2020 22:23 (five years ago)
I like the little detail that Wade the owner is seemingly angry that the bar was named Angry Wade's, wants to reopen it as AW Tavern.
― Josefa, Monday, 7 December 2020 22:32 (five years ago)
Yeah
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 December 2020 22:32 (five years ago)
So he has another restaurant and also another bar which I hadn’t realized
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 December 2020 22:33 (five years ago)
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 December 2020 23:19 (five years ago)
Or something with C, Crown Room. Oh forget it, I’ll never remember.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 00:32 (five years ago)
Anyway, doesn’t seem that in the original run of this thread we mentioned the tapas bar at MacDougal and Houston, Bar Carrera, which the owner later switcherooed into a Bar Veloce, maybe wasn’t old enough or weird enough.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 01:18 (five years ago)
Mrs. Redd remembered, The Cub Room. It had a crown in its logo. https://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/06/garden/off-the-menu.html. 131 Sullivan, at Prince.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 01:59 (five years ago)
Closed in 2009. https://www.grubstreet.com/2009/06/soho_veteran_the_cub_room_is_r.html
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 02:00 (five years ago)
It’s now The Dutch.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 02:03 (five years ago)
New York Magazine article about it
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 02:21 (five years ago)
Also, never knew the same guy owned The Noho Star, Temple Bar, Elephant and Caslte and One Fifth http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2017/10/the-noho-star-temple-bar.html
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 02:22 (five years ago)
Which I came across because there was a second Elephant and Castle location on Prince Street location of The Dutch/The Cub Room, or at least part of that location.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 02:25 (five years ago)
he owned keens too for a time, both keens and e&c have coffee cantata on the dessert menu
― adam, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 02:38 (five years ago)
I ate at the noho star many times, nice place. That stretch of Lafayette from spring to Astor is one of my favorite streets in the city
― calstars, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 02:48 (five years ago)
that's my stomping ground too. lots of places gone forever now.
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 02:53 (five years ago)
I guess I didn’t read that Noho Star link too carefully the first time I posted it.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 03:51 (five years ago)
21 Club?
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 12 December 2020 22:25 (five years ago)
https://gothamist.com/food/21-club-historic-prohibition-era-speakeasy-closes-for-foreseeable-future
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 12 December 2020 22:51 (five years ago)
they should put some masks on their jockeys
― Josefa, Saturday, 12 December 2020 23:45 (five years ago)
Lol
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 12 December 2020 23:51 (five years ago)
Happy Holidays to the Redd’s Roster crew! Hopefully one day when we stagger out of our bunkers there will still be some Old Weird restaurants open to dine in upon occasion.
― And Then There’s Maudit (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 25 December 2020 17:27 (five years ago)
<3
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 25 December 2020 18:17 (five years ago)
The one thing that gives me hope is thinking of Prohibition, no legal bars for 12 years, but then after repeal bar culture blossomed again rather quickly. It would be nice to still have some of the restaurateurs and some of the places we've known when dining does its own reset.
― Josefa, Friday, 25 December 2020 19:03 (five years ago)
The McDonald's among NYC McDonald's has closed.This place was like something out of the Five Points c. 1890
End of a era smh McDonald’s across the st from the cage on w4th st station pic.twitter.com/SBkW9AtKMD— Lord Nez (@LordNez) January 3, 2021
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 4 January 2021 15:40 (five years ago)
I saw that mentioned elsewhere. Wow.
― Notes on Scampo (tokyo rosemary), Monday, 4 January 2021 15:43 (five years ago)
never thought a McDonald’s closing would make me depressed
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Monday, 4 January 2021 15:44 (five years ago)