CBGB's to CLOSE?

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The famous New York City punk outpost CBGB & OMFUG, where Ramones, Patti Smith, Television, Talking Heads and many others cut their teeth and sullied its notoriously disgusting bathroom, closed in 2006. But now it will get a second life, nearly a decade later as ... an airport restaurant.

The club, which will be rechristened the CBGB L.A.B. (Lounge and Bar) will serve "American fare in a fun environment recalling the legendary music venue," Gothamist reports. The first location will open in New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport at a yet-to-be-revealed date and it will be helmed by chef Harold Moore, who runs the comparatively upscale New York City eatery Commerce.

CBGB L.A.B. will serve everything from $9.00 Disco Fries to a $42.00 Prime Rib, according to a menu posted online by East Orange, New Jersey radio station WFMU. It even features Harold's World Famous Chili on the menu, a nod to club owner Hilly Kristal's chili concoctions. Other items the L.A.B. will offer include crispy chicken paillard, seared togarashi tuna and matzo ball soup; diners can order birthday cake for dessert.

hunangarage, Tuesday, 22 December 2015 05:16 (eight years ago) link

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skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 December 2015 05:32 (eight years ago) link

god is it too much to ask for chocolate lava cake for dessert?

COOMBES (mattresslessness), Tuesday, 22 December 2015 05:39 (eight years ago) link

btw that CBGBs movie from a couple years ago is on Netflix and wow what an amazing, fun bunch of camp trash. too much fun. it's so clueless. ron weasley as a cheetah chrome is too dorky.

Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 22 December 2015 14:57 (eight years ago) link

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tylerw, Tuesday, 22 December 2015 15:05 (eight years ago) link

timeless beauty

speaking of, in CBGBs the movie, Patti Smith is playing supposedly when she's getting "discovered" and she does some spoken word then goes into...."Because the Night" lol

god i want to watch this movie again

Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 22 December 2015 15:10 (eight years ago) link

Can't believe they're commercializing CBGBs

on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 22 December 2015 20:41 (eight years ago) link

punk is dead

tylerw, Tuesday, 22 December 2015 20:48 (eight years ago) link

one month passes...

Wonder how waitstaff at restaurant in Nwk Airport reacts if yr order is "Please kill me."

where the awnings went?

http://gothamist.com/2016/01/28/cbgb_awning_mystery.php

we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 January 2016 21:24 (eight years ago) link

The movie's on Netflix now.

Mike Dixn, Friday, 29 January 2016 02:06 (eight years ago) link

one year passes...
one year passes...

Homage to CBGB (🙄) today at the just-opened East Village Target on 14th Street pic.twitter.com/8Nu72BGkUS

— evgrieve (@evgrieve) July 21, 2018

Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 21 July 2018 20:12 (five years ago) link

Haha that’s awesome

i’m still stanning (morrisp), Saturday, 21 July 2018 23:56 (five years ago) link

Not that far from the orig, air?

Mark G, Sunday, 22 July 2018 09:32 (five years ago) link

lol get over it dudes it was a shitty venue big deal

(•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 21:17 (five years ago) link

I think since CBGBs itself is selling like $349.95 Swarovski jewelry with their logo on it and like has a restaurant at the Newark Airport, everyone should kind of give up being upset when a big brand has some fun with their legacy

5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 21:20 (five years ago) link

agreed

i’m still stanning (morrisp), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 21:24 (five years ago) link


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