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May 25, 2006
Follow Your Nose: New Retail Action on Smith
Continuing yesterday's look at retail activity on Smith Street, 423 Smith highlights two new spots in the hood. In a burst of synergistic brilliance, the folks behind Smith and Vine are about to open a new cheese shop named, appropriately, Stinky. We'll be interested to see how it stacks up against our current fave, the Bedford Cheese Shop in the Williamsburg mini mall. In other news, the Park Slope fashionistas behind Bird have opened a new location at 220 Smith Street.
Always Something New on Smith [423 Smith]
Comments
Love the job they did on the exterior for Bird. Very distinctive design-wise when contrasted against the Gap-like storefront of the American Apparel store further down the street.
Posted by: crouchback at May 25, 2006 10:15 AM
Tuller on Court St. has good cheeses too. Can't wait for Stinky, though. The name alone excites me to no end!
Posted by: mmm...cheese at May 25, 2006 10:40 AM
Tuller is excellent for cheese. Their resident cheese-man is very knowledgeable and helped my make some excellent selections for a wine & cheese party I had at home. I'll try Stinky also, despite its silly name.
Posted by: Anonymous at May 25, 2006 10:47 AM
Fairway has a great cheese selection, even if there's no place to park my $800 bike (kidding!)
Posted by: Anonymous at May 25, 2006 11:06 AM
I love Smith & Vine. If Stinky takes the same approach of well selected offerings and highly knowledgeable staff, I'll be there every week.
I went to Fairway on Sunday morning and the cheese guy seemed to be busy with something and wasn't very helpful. With 250 varieties, you have to offer some guidance.
Posted by: Anonymous at May 25, 2006 12:54 PM
all this talk of cheese, anyplace good in brooklyn to get fondue? any charming french or swiss restaurants?
nothing in heights, i looked.
Posted by: amy at May 25, 2006 1:41 PM
anyone think smith st. is becoming more like 7th ave in PS?
Posted by: von at May 25, 2006 2:22 PM
"any charming french or swiss restaurants"
Plenty of French styled restaurant/bistros in downtown Brooklyn. Bachus and Jolie on Atlantic. Bar Tabac on Smith. Moutarde and (my favorite) Belleville on 5th Avenue. Unfortunately, Austria (Thomas Beisl) is as close to Switzerland as your going to get in Brooklyn.
Posted by: crouchback at May 25, 2006 2:30 PM
If there is anything that is NOT in short supply in Brownstone Brooklyn (outside of Brooklyn Heights anyway) it is French restaurants and bistros. Visit Carroll Gardens, Cobble/Boerum Hill, Ft. Greene, Park Slope and you'll have many to choose from...
Posted by: Anonymous at May 25, 2006 7:25 PM
Which doesn't mean they are good...
Posted by: Anonymous at May 26, 2006 9:08 AM
Stinky is gonna RULE!!! Can't wait!
Posted by: frankie at May 27, 2006 6:19 PM
Geez, just what the bourgeous bohemians Brooklyn need most, another wine and cheese shop. Between all the wine and cheese shops and endless bistros, does anyone else get sick of this weird pseudo-Frenchness so many Brooklynites seem to aspire to? I swear it seems like so many Brooklynites think that being surrounding by faux-French trappings will somehow lend them an air of culture and intellectualism.
Give me a good burger joint anyday.
Posted by: T. at May 30, 2006 10:34 AM
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