Pequeña Shuts Prospect Heights Location
On Super Bowl Sunday, just before the game started, we stopped by Pequeña for dinner, thinking it would be easy to get a table since, as far as we could remember, the restaurant didn’t have a tv. It was closed. We figured it was a one-time deal because of the game. But then we read in DNAinfo yesterday it went…
On Super Bowl Sunday, just before the game started, we stopped by Pequeña for dinner, thinking it would be easy to get a table since, as far as we could remember, the restaurant didn’t have a tv. It was closed.
We figured it was a one-time deal because of the game. But then we read in DNAinfo yesterday it went out of business because of a change in partnership and decrease in customers. The space at 601 Vanderbilt Avenue in Prospect Heights will become a Korean restaurant. There are no plans to close the original location, at 86 South Portland Avenue in Fort Greene, according to DNA.
We really liked the margaritas and enchiladas — and the elbow room — at this location and will miss it.
Curiously, this is not the first restaurant owner and actress Chelsea Altman has shuttered recently. Maggie Brown in Clinton Hill shut down last month, as we reported at the time. Altman also owns Olea and Allswell, according to Brooklyn Magazine, and used to own now-closed Moe’s Bar in Fort Greene. Altman has been in the news lately for testifying in the Elan Patz case (they were childhood friends).
Korean Restaurant to Replace Pequena in Prospect Heights [DNA] GMAP
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Wait, since when did Mo’s close? It was still open a couple weeks ago.
Also, Pequena in Ft Greene wasn’t very good the one time I went…nothing to draw me back. Bored/inattentive servers, mediocre Mexican served cold, etc.
It’s Pequeña, not La Pequeña, if anyone is interested. I am, but just barely.
Cate, try La Lupe at 9 Jefferson St. It’s good food, plenty of room, great (spicy) margaritas and right next to Bed Stuy (where – based on your posts – I assume you live?). It’s by Myrtle JMZ, across from Bizarre, in the former Salad Wheel space.
The restaurant is on Vanderbilt Avenue, not on Washington Avenue
Ah yes, missed that.
A few weeks ago, I think. The signage went up a couple of months ago, but I guess they were waiting for the liquor license. Only been there once, not sure if they’ll be consistently good. Nice vibe though, reminded me of the now-defunct Papacitos.
Yup. And I stopped going to the Ft Greene location since their amazing frozen margarita machine broke and is never going to be replaced.
“I once had a roach come crawling out of my bowl of chips there.”
They made me pay for my roach, I thought it was included!
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Someday this war is gonna end…