Redd's Roster of Restaurants of the Old Weird New York

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

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.

Bunch of places here: https://www.curbed.com/article/nyc-businesses-closed-2020-pandemic.html

The Paris Hotel/Café, 119 South Street, at Peck Slip
has reopened after dealing with Sandy damage.

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/

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

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.

Should have said LOS WFH FTL spacesship. Anyway, your asteroid/dinosaur scenario was already better.

which btw Curbed stole from me, haha

Oh yeah

Truth be told, I was sort of surprised Angry Wade's was still open, although I have walked by it relatively recently.

I'll really miss Bar Robert from that general area (Boerum Hill)

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.

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

Seems like he is concentrating on one of his other restaurants.

https://www.brooklynpaper.com/angry-wades-bar-closes-after-21-years/

Don’t think we mentioned Gotham Bar and Grill.

Or The Cupping Room Cafe.

Ah! I missed that

Which?

Wade’s

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.

Yeah

So he has another restaurant and also another bar which I hadn’t realized

Or The Cupping Room Cafe.

Or something with C, Crown Room. Oh forget it, I’ll never remember.

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.

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.

Closed in 2009. https://www.grubstreet.com/2009/06/soho_veteran_the_cub_room_is_r.html

It’s now The Dutch.

New York Magazine article about it

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

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.

he owned keens too for a time, both keens and e&c have coffee cantata on the dessert menu

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

that's my stomping ground too. lots of places gone forever now.

I guess I didn’t read that Noho Star link too carefully the first time I posted it.

21 Club?

https://gothamist.com/food/21-club-historic-prohibition-era-speakeasy-closes-for-foreseeable-future

they should put some masks on their jockeys

Lol

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.

<3

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.

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

I saw that mentioned elsewhere. Wow.

never thought a McDonald’s closing would make me depressed

Ugh

I was sad when the one on 34th st closed because before Hudson Yards was built I worked at Coach a block closer to the Hudson and used to eat there when I was really hating myself, and felt like there was some charm that there was still a drive through McDonalds with a parking lot in manhattan.

that 34th Street one truly felt like a spaceship landing on the moon, so so strange over there. definitely grabbed something there once to fuel up for a Megabus trip, and certainly have gotten one or two ice cream sundaes at the West 4th one before/after movies. yeah, oddly i'm sad to see it go, since obviously whatever replaces it will actually be more depressing and certainly out of the price range of the McD's customer base. the only winner here might be the Papaya Dog spot nearby.