hmmm, ridiculous
http://evgrieve.com/2017/07/after-34-years-off-bowery-great-jones.html
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 July 2017 20:20 (six years ago) link
Great Jones Café not closing after all, reopening today at 5pm
― Josefa, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 04:43 (six years ago) link
wha? wow
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 11:20 (six years ago) link
This interview with the owner explains everything:
http://gothamist.com/2017/08/02/great_jones_cafe.php
― Josefa, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 16:07 (six years ago) link
The Riviera Cafe
― Barkis Garvey (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 4 August 2017 00:12 (six years ago) link
REALLY?
― ein Sexmonster (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 4 August 2017 01:23 (six years ago) link
Spike of Smalls, which, as you know, is across the street, posted a link on Facebook.
― Barkis Garvey (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 4 August 2017 02:31 (six years ago) link
http://www.showbiz411.com/2017/08/02/greed-destroying-greenwich-village-as-famed-eatery-the-riviera-set-to-close-after-48-years
― Barkis Garvey (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 4 August 2017 02:41 (six years ago) link
I watched that insane Texas-Toronto inning in the 2015 playoffs there
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 August 2017 03:10 (six years ago) link
Haven't gone in there in decades, but was always glad to pass by and see it was still a going concern.
― Barkis Garvey (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 4 August 2017 03:18 (six years ago) link
Shit i worked there for a bit more than a year! End of an era.
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 August 2017 03:48 (six years ago) link
End of half a century
― Barkis Garvey (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 4 August 2017 03:54 (six years ago) link
as prev reported
https://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2017/08/last-supper-at-riviera.html
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 31 August 2017 18:53 (six years ago) link
Noho Star :(http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2017/10/the-noho-star-temple-bar.html
― Commandolin Wind (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 02:57 (six years ago) link
All that talk of Aggie's reminded me of Augie's, where I somehow got served, age 19, two martinis straight up with an olive, and watched an amazing jazz trio play about two feet from me. It remains one of the most magical nights of music ever.
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/28/nyregion/neighborhood-report-upper-west-side-free-music-cheap-beer-couldn-t-keep-jazz.html
v pleased that apparently its spirit lives on in the same location:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke_(jazz_club)
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 10 February 2018 21:28 (six years ago) link
the "weird new york" cut-off should probably be the smoking ban
tho some folks would argue that by the time they might be giants had moved to williamsburg in the early 90s it was all over
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 February 2018 14:51 (six years ago) link
Vaya con dios, El Quijote is closing down - to be redone or replaced by... something? All staff received notice.
This just seems like a stupid idea.
― Josefa, Saturday, 17 March 2018 14:21 (six years ago) link
oh no :(shortly after moving to nyc i ate a massive lobster dinner there with friends. in my memory it was just plate after plate of stuff. of course we were smoking cigarettes. the waiters all in little hotel vests. we never wanted to leave.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 17 March 2018 14:24 (six years ago) link
And uniquely, every plate you order at El Quijote is bigger than you expect
― Josefa, Saturday, 17 March 2018 14:31 (six years ago) link
i was at the bar there one time and needing to call someone (no mobile phones in these days) and rather than send me into the cold to look for a payphone they pulled a big chunky phone from under the bar and let me use it
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 17 March 2018 14:41 (six years ago) link
Their cash registers are probably from the '40s and the waiters are still in those vests
― Josefa, Saturday, 17 March 2018 15:09 (six years ago) link
RIP Cornelia Street Cafe, closing on Jan 2. Not a great restaurant, but certainly an important artistic venue.
― What Do I Blecch? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 15:10 (five years ago) link
That's too bad. I used to see tango singing and other offbeat performances there and it seemed like the artists were happy to play there even though it was small. Can't remember how the food was, but the upstairs bar was lively.
― Josefa, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 15:45 (five years ago) link
I went on an internet search for paella in Brooklyn the other week and we chose an Argentine place that was not good, and it made me remember when a friend and former ilxor took me out for paella in 1998 or 99, when I first came here, and it was in the EV and it was GOOD and came with a lobster on top. Of course I have no idea where the restaurant was and it probably doesn't exist anymore.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 16:42 (five years ago) link
It could've been La Paella on 9th St. which closed circa 2014 after 20 years in operation. You can still get lobster over paella at old spots in the West Village such as Spain and Sevilla, not sure who makes it best though.
I used to get my paella fix at La Nacional on 14th St., which OMG I am just noticing has reopened with a completely updated look (thought it was gone forever).
Francisco's Centro Vasco, another paella palace, closed last year.
― Josefa, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 17:17 (five years ago) link
I recently got a hold of a copy of a mid-nineties Access NYC, as I had been thinking about since I started this thread, and I have to say we did a pretty good job, covered a lot of ground.Also, belated RIP to Café Loup.
― TS: “8:05” vs. “905” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 August 2019 11:23 (four years ago) link
Just found this:https://ny.eater.com/2019/5/13/18617934/great-jones-cafe-gabriel-stulman-happy-cooking-hospitality-confirmAlso, maybe should have mentioned Greenwich Avenue Two Boots closing late last year.
― TS: “8:05” vs. “905” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 August 2019 11:34 (four years ago) link
aw. that crunchy corn flour on the crust!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 17 August 2019 11:44 (four years ago) link
Le Veau d'Or was recently closed down and sold by Catherine Treboux, after nearly 35 years in her family. The buyers are the two chef-owners of Frenchette, who plan to reopen an updated version of it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/16/dining/frenchette-le-veau-dor.html
Btw what ever happened with the old El Quijote space, is it a new restaurant yet?
― Josefa, Saturday, 17 August 2019 12:11 (four years ago) link
Dunno.
One from the old guidebook that hasn’t been mentioned yet, as far as I can see:Marion’s Continental Restaurant and Lounge, 354 Bowery (between E4th and Great Jones)
― TS: “8:05” vs. “905” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 August 2019 12:52 (four years ago) link
(The) Coffee Shop, 29 Union Square West, closed last October.
― TS: “8:05” vs. “905” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 August 2019 13:16 (four years ago) link
Marion's was cool, though I spent way more time at their sister restaurant-bar, M & R, on Elizabeth St. in Nolita. That closed in 2003.
Marion, the person, they say, was involved with JFK at some point in time.
― Josefa, Saturday, 17 August 2019 13:25 (four years ago) link
Was it really closed that long ago? /Time flies, I’m old etc.
― TS: “8:05” vs. “905” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 August 2019 14:31 (four years ago) link
Yeah I think it closed just days after the smoking ban took effect
― Josefa, Saturday, 17 August 2019 14:36 (four years ago) link
Seems like original Elizabeth location closed around then, but at some point it was revived on Bowery for a while next to Marion’s
― TS: “8:05” vs. “905” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 August 2019 14:47 (four years ago) link
That's right. That second version was kind of... dull I guess, so I never frequented it
― Josefa, Saturday, 17 August 2019 14:50 (four years ago) link
The original location was frequented by Little Italy characters and old Soho-type art people and you-never-knew-who mixed in with random tourists. Big gay clientele too. Second location seemed like more of a generic place for the NYU crowd.
― Josefa, Saturday, 17 August 2019 14:54 (four years ago) link
Coffee Shop was one of the first bars I ever went to in New York. i was totally overwhelmed. it was so loud, and so busy, and so apparently cool, and everyone was ordering different types of caipirinhas, which i had never heard of before. I eventually came to look down on it somewhat, as a kind of entry-level aspect of New York nightlife, but i don't know if that's just because of my experience or what.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 17 August 2019 15:01 (four years ago) link
I wouldn’t think of it just like that. To me it was more like some kind of rough equivalent of a place in Paris where everybody could go but famous or hip people didn’t shun, like La Coupole, maybe.
― TS: “8:05” vs. “905” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 August 2019 15:53 (four years ago) link
ohhh I didn't realize Cafe Loup permanently closed after they had the tax issue.
― Yerac, Saturday, 17 August 2019 15:55 (four years ago) link
I think they had agreed to a plan to pay the back taxes and put a “White Knight” customer in charge for a bit but that didn’t work out so well.
― TS: “8:05” vs. “905” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 August 2019 16:38 (four years ago) link
https://ny.eater.com/platform/amp/2019/3/8/18256016/cafe-loup-closure-west-village-tax-departmenthttp://www.grubstreet.com/amp/2019/03/nyc-literary-haunt-caf-loup-closes-again.html
― TS: “8:05” vs. “905” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 August 2019 16:44 (four years ago) link
Don't know how I didn't know that owners of Sur also owned Caffe Novecento, 343 W Broadway -still there!
Its neighbor, Diva, at 341 W. Broadway, is also closed, although can't remember ever actually going in that place, just looking in the window and hearing about it.
― TS: “8:05” vs. “905” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 18 August 2019 12:30 (four years ago) link
i have many happy memories, and a few shameful ones, of dancing upstairs at novocento. great atmosphere, great house music.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 18 August 2019 13:15 (four years ago) link
Pastis is back open. I was excited and then I realized I got it confused with Florent.
― Yerac, Sunday, 18 August 2019 14:39 (four years ago) link
Should be noted here that Lucien Bahaj of the East Village French bistro Lucien passed away recently. Apparently his son Zac will keep the restaurant going. Lucien has been in business since 1998 and still has an "old, weird" clientele.
― Josefa, Monday, 19 August 2019 15:45 (four years ago) link
Think I went there at least once maybe four or five years ago, although sometimes I confuse Lucien with Jules
― TS: “8:05” vs. “905” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 August 2019 00:47 (four years ago) link
Teresas :(https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2020/01/10/brooklyn-heights-mourns-as-teresas-restaurant-closes-its-doors-after-31-years/
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 January 2020 23:19 (four years ago) link
Teresa’s
Never went there!
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, 12 January 2020 00:32 (four years ago) link