I used to get lunch at the #11 place on that Times list when I worked downtown: Tokyo Lunch. The chicken katsu-don was my go-to order.
― o. nate, Thursday, 10 September 2020 00:50 (three years ago) link
Barely now why I ended up at this roundup just posting it here now as a memory jog:https://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/24/arts/diner-s-journal.html
― ABBA O RLY? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 10 September 2020 23:40 (three years ago) link
Barely know, I guess I meant to to type.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 5 December 2020 22:15 (three years ago) link
But came to type Jazz Standard/Blue Smoke Flatiron.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 5 December 2020 22:16 (three years ago) link
Cafe Steinhof in Park Slope has closed for good. I remember when it opened, circa 2000, as a more casual spinoff of Max & Moritz a block away. In the end it became a beloved neighborhood joint with a popular goulash night and film screenings and lasted far longer than its parent restaurant (though I still miss Max & Moritz).
In other Park Slope news, Rose Water closed back in November of last year. That was possibly my favorite restaurant in the neighborhood. It's where I once eavesdropped on Paul Auster, Siri Hustvedt, and Salman Rushdie dining at the table next to me. Still coming to grips with that loss. Was not a business issue, the owner simply wanted to move on to a different phase in his life. I know Mr. Fine Wine used to eat there sometimes.
― Josefa, Sunday, 6 December 2020 02:21 (three years ago) link
I've been to Manhattan about four times since Covid. I have the suspicion that when I next walk the streets of it all my favorite old restaurants will be gone, like ghosts, and my memories put in the trash bin.
Le Veau d'Or on E. 60th St., which was supposed to reopen under new management pre-pandemic, never did and I assume never will. So that's an 82-year operation gone for good.
― Josefa, Sunday, 6 December 2020 02:58 (three years ago) link
Did you ever eat at that place with Mr. Fine Wine, Josefa?
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 6 December 2020 03:36 (three years ago) link
No. But the owner was friends with him. The owner was somehow involved in the soul music scene & was good friends with the late Warren Lee of Subway Soul Club.
― Josefa, Sunday, 6 December 2020 03:41 (three years ago) link
Empire State Soul Club, I mean
― Josefa, Sunday, 6 December 2020 03:46 (three years ago) link
Of course. I knew what you meant.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 6 December 2020 03:53 (three years ago) link
Feel like the pandemic is redefining what Old Weird New York means.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 6 December 2020 03:59 (three years ago) link
Like the closing of the brick and mortar locations of Otto’s Tacos, does that belong on this thread? Nowadays I might say maybe.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 6 December 2020 04:00 (three years ago) link
Totally. Everything pre-pandemic seems a little old and weird now. It's like when the asteroid hit and killed off the dinosaurs. Something will survive but we don't know what.
― Josefa, Sunday, 6 December 2020 04:03 (three years ago) link
― 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 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
which btw Curbed stole from me, haha
― Josefa, Monday, 7 December 2020 17:58 (three years ago) link
Oh yeah
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 December 2020 18:02 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
I'll really miss Bar Robert from that general area (Boerum Hill)
― Josefa, Monday, 7 December 2020 19:19 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
Seems like he is concentrating on one of his other restaurants.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 December 2020 21:40 (three years ago) link
https://www.brooklynpaper.com/angry-wades-bar-closes-after-21-years/
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 December 2020 21:42 (three years ago) link
Don’t think we mentioned Gotham Bar and Grill.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 December 2020 21:53 (three years ago) link
Or The Cupping Room Cafe.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 December 2020 21:54 (three years ago) link
Ah! I missed that
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 7 December 2020 22:21 (three years ago) link
Which?
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 December 2020 22:23 (three years ago) link
Wade’s
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 7 December 2020 22:23 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
Yeah
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 December 2020 22:32 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 December 2020 23:19 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
It’s now The Dutch.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 02:03 (three years ago) link
New York Magazine article about it
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 02:21 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link