Wednesday Food & Drink Round-Up

Oh here we go....

"the much beloved Coffee shop" is closing - revisionist history. The Coffee shop was not much beloved by many people (virtually always near empty), nor did it have especially good food.
All it had was a cool retro sign and a classic (read: outdated) interior
- area needs a large supermarket and they can pay more then a not-so-successful coffee shop.

Nostalgia is nice but please keep it in perspective

Posted by: guest at December 19, 2007 11:25 AM

i literally walk by that donut shop ALL THE TIME.

never once, did i see it open for business.

and the decline of the mom and pop continues....mostly due to poor and inadequate hours, if you ask me.

Posted by: guest at December 19, 2007 11:36 AM

IHOP? Bring on the obesity.

Posted by: guest at December 19, 2007 11:39 AM

What are you guys talking about? I used to go to the donut shop all the time.

Posted by: guest at December 19, 2007 11:43 AM

you must have happened upon it for the 45 minutes a day it's open.

Posted by: guest at December 19, 2007 11:48 AM

The Times review of Radegast is annoying. Nothing against Peter Meehan, but I wish they'd have people who know something about beer review beer halls. Gaffel Kolsch is one of the biggest and most boring German brands, and was on tap at every dive on the Lower East Side this summer. Every other German beer they have on tap is more special than Gaffel, though still available plenty of other places. BrouCzech is basically Czech Budweiser, and you can get it at delis in Astoria. Frustrating. Sorry to geek out on you all, but bar reviews always make it seem like any bar that carries something other than Coors is a beer wonderland. Still can't wait to check out Radegast, though.

Posted by: guest at December 19, 2007 12:02 PM

How about this menu for a hypothetical restaurant on Smith Street?

http://gentryornot.blogspot.com/2007/12/entrepreneur-in-me.html

Posted by: guest at December 19, 2007 12:09 PM

Nice to know Foxy's doing something with her money. I will be there just for the pancakes and flavored syrup....hate the location.

Posted by: guest at December 19, 2007 12:28 PM

Wooohoo, IHOP! The upscale-ification of downtown Brooklyn continues apace!

Posted by: guest at December 19, 2007 1:09 PM

The donut shop closing is clearly a sign that park slope sucks. Put that crappy food and service and sporadic scheduling in any number of other nabes and there is a line out the door. Park Slope just jumped the shark.

Posted by: guest at December 19, 2007 1:15 PM

Me, am going to IHOP now to try their latest carb offerings with lots of Butterworth corn syrup with a little bacon. Hm hm hmm. Can't walk well, but i'll git there. Then I'll bring home some for dinner.

Posted by: guest at December 19, 2007 1:21 PM

What sporadic scheduling? It's open in the morning and through lunch time. And I think it's closed on Sunday. That's hardly "sporadic." The food may not be great, but the service is -- they're always extremely friendly.

Posted by: guest at December 19, 2007 1:22 PM

Sweet Melissa's has great food, and really crappy service. One time a friend and I waited so long for the wait staff to reappear in the back garden so we could get our check, that we just got feed up, and walked out w/o paying. I think we might have passed one of the AWOL staff on the way out, but no one said anything, so we just kept walking.

Posted by: guest at December 19, 2007 1:22 PM

1:22 is correct. If you lazy Park Slopers managed to roll your doughy asses out of bed before noon you would know this. I loved that place. Nice people, good conversations, bad coffee.

Posted by: guest at December 19, 2007 4:54 PM

If closing Donuts results in a better grocery store, I'm all for it. The grocery stores in PS are terrible. For those who don't have the time to work at the Co-Op, a bigger Associated might be a nice thing.

Posted by: guest at December 19, 2007 4:55 PM

"The grocery stores in PS are terrible."

Steve's C-Town on 9th Street rocks.

Posted by: guest at December 19, 2007 5:21 PM

i love people who say park slope is over because one donut shop which was opened 10 hours a week is closing.

park slope has more retail, restaurants and shops than all the other brownstone neighborhoods combined.

it can stand to lose a couple.

especially when that means improving one of the few nicer grocery stores in the neighborhood.

c town is great, but not convenient if you live in the north slope.

Posted by: guest at December 19, 2007 5:42 PM

"c town is great, but not convenient if you live in the north slope."

Agreed. I was just countering the rather broad accusation that "The grocery stores in PS are terrible."

Posted by: guest at December 19, 2007 7:35 PM

Except that the donut shop was there before I moved to park slope in 1978....so it is a sad loss of a beloved shop...glad the newbies are happy...i will miss the donut shop. I remember a few hung over mornings with nothing more in my mind then some greasy eggs and bad coffee from that very donut shop...but the donuts were good and the company impecable....There goes Brooklyn....don't you people get it!

Posted by: guest at December 19, 2007 11:05 PM

zombee hut on smith street turn in to a big drug bar and a under are drinkers dream the bar tender will give you coke cane if needed the bouncers dont let the cops in so there drug deals can go down and they have roches its been kno a few people that went there brang roches home in there clothes ill they need to get there shit to geather eople have guns in there to the old sackett crew so look out people go and see for your self bye the way the owner is on pills zanex sticks she loves them ask her i herd her ass stinks to know somone who banged her he said it stinks like moose balls

Posted by: guest at December 24, 2007 6:36 AM