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January 30, 2008
Wednesday Food & Drink Round-Up
Early Controversy Over Favela
Corner of South 5th and Wythe, Williamsburg
Eater's roving photographer, Will Femia, snapped this photo of the future home of a Brazilian restaurant called Favela, and The Gurgling Cod already has a beef with the restaurant's name: "Call me crazy, but I don't think you could get away with a soul food (or Polish) restaurant called 'Ghetto.'" Is something getting lost in translation here?
Opening on February 14: Amy Ruth's
372-374 Fulton Street (Fulton Mall), Downtown Brooklyn
"Amorous couples will dine on sauteed chicken liver and braised chitlens on Valentine’s Day at the new Amy Ruth’s on Fulton Mall — but if they need booze to get in a romantic mood, they’ll have to go somewhere else. That’s because the well-known Harlem soul food restaurant won’t have its liquor license when it opens its new location in the old Gage & Tollner site on Feb. 14." [The Brooklyn Paper]
Closed: Second Street Cafe
189 7th Avenue (at Second Street), Park Slope
"The women who work at Met Food said the rent was too high. Another local shopkeeper said that they weren't making any money. Maybe the renovation did them in. A neighbor saw the tall, white haired owner crying... So sudden. So strange. The block between 2nd and 3rd Street on Seventh Avenue has had three closings in two months (Tempo Presto, Seventh Avenue Books, Second Street Cafe). Park Slope Books will be out in March." [OTBKB]
After the jump: Trader Joe's progress report, a beer bar for Park Slope, a "jewel box" for Prospect Heights, brick oven pizza for Clinton Hill, and Harvey Wallbanger arrives in Williamsburg...
What's Up With Trader Joe's?
130 Court Street (at Atlantic Avenue)
"Contacted for comment, Two Trees' PR informed us that they were unsure of when construction on the grocery store would begin. In the meantime, the natives are getting restless, and angry at the speed that Two Trees' huge luxury rental building is rising behind the TJ's site. Look, the people need their frozen Biryani curried rice and their chili-lime white corn tortilla chips." [Racked]
Hoping to Open this Weekend: Beer Table
427B Seventh Avenue, which is between 14th and 15 Streets
"For almost six months, the owners of Beer Table, on Seventh Avenue near 14th Street, have been trapped in liquor license limbo. The local community board endorsed the bar’s application for a liquor license in July, but the application is still awaiting final approval by the State Liquor Authority... The drama is not over. But on Thursday the Philipses learned that they have been conditionally approved for a license by the Liquor Authority. They hope to open next Saturday." [NY Times]
Opening in a Couple of Weeks: Weather Up
589 Vanderbilt Avenue (between Dean and Bergen), Prospect Heights
"Matthew Maddy, who cut his teeth with a design firm that worked on the Box and Stanton Social, is turning a former storefront church into a 'jewel box' of sorts by installing an old mahogany bar with a custom-made brass bar top, a tiled vaulted ceiling, stainless-steel and onyx light fixtures, and banquettes of buffalo-skin leather. Add to all that a back garden and you have a drinks temple fit for barkeeps trained by Sasha Petraske." [Grub Street]
Coming in April: Brick Oven Pizza
37 Washington Street, Clinton Hill
"Owner Joseph Falco is working on transforming 37 Washington (which has been operating as a pizza place for the last 14 years or so) into a brick oven pizza spot. It’ll be called Il Porto, and will offer pizza (brick oven and regular), other menu items, wine and beer, plus sidewalk cafe!" [Clinton Hill Blog]
Campy Cocktails at Huckleberry Bar
588 Grand Street (at Lorimer), Williamsburg; (718) 218-8555
"It’s a high-minded joint, serving the kinds of Chartreuse-laden original cocktails and purist classics found in downtown Manhattan. Serious drinks: Sazeracs, Negronis, even a Sherry Flip. All of which cozy up on the menu beside Harvey Wallbanger himself... The drink has become a surprise hit, perhaps because Williamsburg, where Pabst Blue Ribbon was transformed into a campy statement, is not averse to kitschy drinking, or perhaps because Harvey Wallbangers go down awfully easy." [NY Times]
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What were they thinking when they called it Favela. Crack is messin' up everybody. I'm sure there are some beautiful Brazilian names they could use. I hope they look a little deeper. Good luck!
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 11:13 AM
That name is ridiculous. No, nothing is lost in translation.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 11:23 AM
pbr is just good beer
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 11:36 AM
Dumb name for a restaurant.
7th Avenue is over as a destination for anything other than real estate offices - which will soon close, I hope.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 11:38 AM
I agree-- it is severely fucked-up to name a restaurant Favela.
Posted by: Rehab at January 30, 2008 11:40 AM
Favela does not have the same connotation in Portuguese as "ghetto" does in English. I think the name works if you have an open mind. Chill out.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 11:46 AM
I really don't think there is an issue here. The ENGLISH "ghetto" term is used ad naseum in U.S. popular culture today, and quite often by Brownstoner posters (not surprisingly). Sure, it will create a stir with some people, but overall I don't think it is a big deal, and wouldn't be if it were named "ghetto," either.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 11:58 AM
Favela is an idiotic name for a restaurant.
As for 7th Ave, it is actually getting better restaurant-wise. It's no 5th Ave, but then again, what is?
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 12:02 PM
"7th Avenue is over"
A street can't be over.
But a person can.
I love 7th Avenue...Moim, Chiles and Chocolate, La Taqueria, Cousin John's Bakery, Oshima and Mr. Wonton are some of my favorite places in the hood.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 12:06 PM
I'm actually glad to see some of the mediocre restaurants on 7th Avenue leave....2nd Street Cafe, Tempo Presto, etc.
I think it will make way for some better options.
Did anyone else hear that Pinkberry is moving to 7th between Berkeley and Union??
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 12:09 PM
Judging by the success of 'Tenament' on the LES I don't think offensive naming is a real obstacle for a restaurant. Either way it's better than 'vision 11' a block over
Posted by: bunkerlabs at January 30, 2008 12:11 PM
Favela is as stupid a name as The Gurgling Cod.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 12:12 PM
"As for 7th Ave, it is actually getting better restaurant-wise. It's no 5th Ave, but then again, what is?"
The 5th avenue restaurants are certainly trendy, but they are not exactly award-winning. Good, but not great. There are REAL world-class places on Smith Street. None on 5th.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 12:13 PM
The Gurgling Cod is a stupid name for a food blog.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 12:17 PM
Smith Street = Yawnsville.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 12:27 PM
I hate Smith Steet.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 12:28 PM
5th ave is just a cluster f*ck of mediocre places.
Nothing to write home about (to the midwest i'm sure you transplant liberal trash)
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 12:35 PM
Bitter, table for one. 12:35? Bitter, table for one.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 12:38 PM
I'd be fascinated to hear about the world class restaurants on Smith. Please tell me you're not talking about Saul and Grocery.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 12:40 PM
12:35 is not only bitter (and a fucktardian asshat) but if he thinks that "The Midwest" is where the "liberal trash" (who outnumber him to the point of hilarity and make his ilk an obsolete afterthought) come from, he's also an astoundingly dipshittian ninny.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 12:45 PM
LOL, 12:45.
True dat.
I would venture to guess that Blue Ribbon Sushi and Al Di La are both rated higher than any of the mediocre crap on Smith.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 12:49 PM
Smith Street is HYPE. Alllllll Hype.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 12:54 PM
Blue ribbon sushi? You mean where the highest mercury content for tuna in the city are?
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 12:54 PM
Nope, 12:54
That was Nobu.
But ALL the places in NYC that were tested had high mercury, so if you want to diss Blue Ribbon (it was the one in Soho they tested, btw), fine...but then you can also simlutaneously diss Gourmet Garage and every other sushi place in the city.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 12:56 PM
Sounds like 12:54's been conducting another one of his/her famous "secret mercury testings" again. Well done, sir/ma'am!
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 12:57 PM
do people in park slope work?
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 12:58 PM
2nd Street Cafe was usually forgettable, but they seemed to do okay. Tempo Presto, never went there... but that spot is straight up JINXED. You could open a whorehouse/casino there and it would fail. The only possible successful business for that location would be as access point for secret tours of that abandoned building next door.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 12:59 PM
CG is so awesome!
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 1:03 PM
Perhaps the high mercury count at Blue Ribbon explains how Slopers have become such an obnoxious breed.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 1:07 PM
Another closing on 7th avenue. Hope Park Slope doesn't become Park Slump again, as it was once called.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 1:09 PM
Didn't realize that mercury in the bloodstream made one obnoxious, 1:07. Perhaps jealousy in your green eyes is what makes you pathetic?
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 1:10 PM
They never tested the Blue Ribbon in Park Slope, 1:07.
They tested the other location in Soho.
So what's your theory now?
That everyone in Soho, Tribeca (Nobu) are obnoxious as well?
Sounds like you, my friend are the obnoxious one. Not to mention ignorant.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 1:10 PM
More stores/restaurants have opened in Park Slope in 2007 than closed, 1:09.
Do some research.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 1:11 PM
The fact that the motherfuckin' TIMES thinks that Billyburg turned PBR into a "campy statement" is beyond laughable. Dennis Hopper did it in Blue Velvet. END OF STORY. Writer probably wasn't born when it came out... sheesh.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 1:12 PM
Blue Ribbon in Soho and Park Slope have the same fish supplier you mercury poisoned boob.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 1:14 PM
Asshats like 12:44 would LOVE a return of Park Slump, 1:09--unfortunately, there is a REASON that they are asshats. It's because they don't know what the fuck they're talking about. Park Slope will be just fine.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 1:15 PM
Make up your mind, 1:14, does mercury make you obnoxious or a boob?
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 1:17 PM
I agree, 1:15.
Pinkberry doesn't open a new store on 7th, paying 11K per month in a neighborhood that has not proven to be established and successful.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 1:17 PM
An obnoxious boob. I'd like to see that.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 1:18 PM
I don't eat, Tuna.
Never have.
I'm gay and it always reminded me of something I once tried back in college...
yuck...
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 1:18 PM
actually, yes. people in soho and tribeca are annoying. they are just more well off than you park slump boobs who have to come onto a blog and be all snarky.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 1:19 PM
Huckleberry Bar is a fantastic spot.
Much better than that new Hotel Delmano spot.
so many great new spots opening up in the burg for a more adult crowd. the nightlife in williamsburg is far superior to park slope.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 1:20 PM
agreed. everything in the burg is superior to the slump.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 1:22 PM
1:19...so far you are the snarkiest person on this thread.
by far.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 1:22 PM
no one here cares about williamsburg, 1:20.
it's ugly and there are no brownstones.
oh and the restaurants suck a**
and not in a good way.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 1:23 PM
brooklyn heights is the most beautiful neighborhood in brooklyn.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 1:24 PM
Actually, gay 1:18, sushi tuna is pretty "unfishy" to my nose. You're probably thinking of the foul, canned "chunk light" variety. But I hear you, I have never been able to eat sausage.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 1:24 PM
i love williamsburg bc there is no one from park slope there.
too busy making love to their crown moldings.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 1:25 PM
Carroll Gardens is what all these neighborhoods WISH they were. Mini scone, anyone?
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 1:25 PM
No way! Park Slope is. Duhhh
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 1:26 PM
i like where this is heading :)
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 1:27 PM
How about a tuna sausage?
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 1:27 PM
You mean a trannie, 1:27?
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 1:30 PM
1:25, I'd rather bang my crown moldings than chug on the asbestos sided cock of billyburg.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 1:32 PM
Vinegar Hill. The ONLY neighborhood in Brooklyn.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 1:33 PM
Freshly jumped shark roll, anybody? Mercury dipping sauce?
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 1:35 PM
i just stumbled upon this site because i thought i was a blog about something else (lol)
How cute, an entire blog about that OTHER boro.
Keep on arguing kids. you'll never be manhattan!
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 1:35 PM
The Grocery is better than anything on 5th.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 1:38 PM
Common people, lets embrace the political zeitgeist. We are not Park Slope, Clinton Hill, Carroll Gardens and Williamsburg; we are not the nimbys and the developers; we are not the Smith Street consumers and the Fifth Avenue consumers; We are a United Brooklyn!!!!
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 1:38 PM
Grocery????
You're kidding right?
I got food poisoning from them 2 months ago.
No thank you.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 1:41 PM
per se is better than anything in brooklyn.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 1:43 PM
Gurgling Cod, anyone?
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 1:45 PM
1:35 = son of Asian banker.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 1:45 PM
1:45 = the annoying person who always equates ridiculous things.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 1:48 PM
The Grocery serves the finest poisoned gurgling cod on a bed of hype in the city.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 1:48 PM
1:48 = mercury poisoned tuna sausage.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 1:53 PM
I live in Park Slope (near 5th) and while I agree the majority of the restaurants aren't that great there are some good ones (Al Di La; Blue Ribbon, Bonnies to name a couple) but overall 5th Ave is FAR FAR better then Smith's restaurants. Smith really doesnt have one exceptional restaurant except for the PO.
But I also admit that Manhattan still has much better restaurants then Brooklyn - fact.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 1:54 PM
"I got food poisoning from them 2 months ago."
I'm sure they saw you coming.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 2:00 PM
this is silly. brownstones are ugly and lame and for people with zero imagination. let's all celebrate the victorian age! yippee. where architects copied themselves and each other to market to a tasteless middle class. over and over again. and again. dripping with dark hideous details and small rooms! hooray! shuddup already.
williamsburg restaurants are so far ahead of anything in PS, CH, CG, it's a joke to pretend otherwise.
only decent ones are al di la and grocery. everything else is very mediocre altho some like saul.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 2:03 PM
The only restaurant in Williamsburg I like is Pies and Thighs.
OH WAIT...THEY CLOSED!!!!
And my favorite place to hang out in Williamsburg is Galapagos.
OH WAIT...IT LEFT!!!
Love me some Brooklyn Brewery.
DAMN...ALSO LEFT FOR GOWANUS.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 2:05 PM
2:03...
Just to point out what an idiot you are (as if everyone else didn't already know it) The Grocery is not in Park Slope.
Ever been there??
You kinda lost all credibilty.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 2:07 PM
Not to defend 2:03, 2:07, but he was lumping PS, CG and CH all in one in his inane diatribe. So he must only lose credibility based on his support for flimsy housing stock over homes built to LAST. Our landfills will soon groan with all the hideous condos going up in your toxic nabe, 2:03.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 2:11 PM
2:07
I think you should reread 2:03's post.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 2:15 PM
Hello kettle,
this is the pot, your black.
As if Park Slope doesn't have a billion condos coming to market that will make real estate values slump like a mercurial boob.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 2:18 PM
Actually, no, 2:18...it doesn't.
Park Slope has one of the lowest inventories of any neighborhood in New York City.
The few buildings that are going up...Novo (75% sold), Argyle (over 50% sold) Crest are all doing just fine.
There was just a huge article about all of the inventory sitting on the market in Williamsburg though.
No such article about Park Slope.
Thanks for the lies, though. Always appreciated here.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 2:21 PM
Those condos are on 4th avenue, 2:18... peripheral and avoidable. Your ugliness is woven into Williamsburg's polyester fabric. A heady mishmash of dilapidated shanties, crumbling shitbricks and the aforementioned hideousities.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 2:25 PM
Could you please name a single condo/new building built in the last 25 years that had to be carted off to the landfill because it was poorly constructed.
As ugly as you might think the average condo is, it is built far stronger (steel) and will last just as long with less expensive maintenance then any 19th century Brownstone.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 2:27 PM
That's what we love about those amazing Williamsburg restaurants: Lies served with a smirk.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 2:28 PM
"A heady mishmash of dilapidated shanties, crumbling shitbricks and the aforementioned hideousities."
Ouch, this kitten's got claws, MEOW!
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 2:28 PM
Those buildings are 75% sold to investors who will try to turn them around the first chance they get. But nice try putting a positive spin on what probably wont be such a great situation in the coming economic slump.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 2:29 PM
Ever hear of a Liger, 2:28? Watch your back, I'm it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liger
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 2:30 PM
Center Slope is turning into a ghost town these days. Everything is closed or closing, like Dags, the Gothic cabinet, 7th Ave books,Maggie Moos, Tempo Presto, Slope Books and the 2nd Street Cafe AND the huge empty drugstore on 5th and 9th street. It looks abandoned. Are these places even being filled? They are sitting empty for so long. It's pretty sad.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 2:31 PM
You're right, 2:31, I was walking through the center slope the other day around noon and the only folks I saw were a couple ragged looking former Hedge Fund guys rattling their tin cups outside of the former site of al di la. One of them got knocked over by a giant swirling ball of trash that blew down one of the abandoned streets. Sad, you nailed it, dude.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 2:36 PM
2:30,
yes my friend. all sold to investors before the places were even built, most of who don't live in this city, or even country.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 2:38 PM
yo, 2:31... listen up:
D'ags - Ridiculously overpriced, they dug their own grave.
Gothic Cabinet - who knows? there are so many of those places, they probably just overexpanded.
7th Ave Books - B&N buried them
Maggie Moos - Ridiculous prices, half melted ice cream, dingy place, dimwitted teen staff.
Tempo Presto - jinxed location
Slope Books - See 7th Ave Books
2nd St. Cafe - probably spent too much on the renovation. not enough liquidity.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 2:41 PM
What's really sad is that the giant swirling ball of trash was a real estate broker.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 2:41 PM
Giant swirling ball of Minsky!
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 2:43 PM
That's a lot of excuses!
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 2:43 PM
Not excuses, 2:43, just inept businesspeople (with the exception of the bookstores, they never stood a chance). Hopefully smarter folk will take over the spaces. You can, obviously, exclude yourself.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 2:44 PM
It's even sadder that the same person keeps cutting and pasting all of those 7th avenue closings and puts them into different threads.
As if we are all CRYING that Gothic Cabinet closed.
For f*ck's sake, dude. Get a life.
We need some new shit down here. If you don't like change, go move to Ohio.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 2:45 PM
I ate at a park slope restaurant one, and i got food poisoning.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 2:45 PM
Actually the bookstore was prospering, 2:44. He is moving locations to Court Street.
I believe probably paying about the same, if not more in rent in the new location.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 2:46 PM
your mama's house ain't a park slope restaurant, 2:45.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 2:47 PM
Actually, the bookstore "merged" with its sister location on Court Street. Or something like that. Either way, I won't eat there.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 2:50 PM
2nd street cafe had lousy food. seriously.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 2:56 PM
I nominate Trader Joe's or an Apple store for the 2nd St. Cafe location.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 2:57 PM
i hear people in park slope like the smell of their own farts.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 2:59 PM
I got food poisoning from one of my own farts.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 3:01 PM
I just hired one of the cooks at 2nd street cafe to make blintzes for all of us!
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 3:03 PM
W'burg sucks. Suck it, Bergers.
PArk Slope sucks. Suck it, slopers
Carroll Gardens sucks. Suck it, la cosa nostra
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 3:29 PM
BUT...does the Slope have any "HUPs"? Someone on the HOTD thread earnestly wrote:
"There's been a term going around - HUP. Hip urban professional. It does describe most in Williamsburg whether single or married."
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 4:38 PM
Whoa--102 comments on a Food & Drink Roundup thread? Record!
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 4:40 PM
Thanks 3:03. For a thread about food, there aren't many snacks being offered here.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 4:42 PM
It just seemed wrong. Also, I just fired up the fryolator... so wings are on the way!
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 5:06 PM
Cobble Hill sucks too. Suck it, Cobblers!
Mmmmmmmm.... Cobbler.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 5:43 PM
Will they serve cobbler at Favela?
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 5:47 PM
I'm going to open "Just Cobbler" in the former 2nd Street Cafe site. I'm hiring taste testers, send your resume to fucktard@asshat.com!
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 7:13 PM
I miss the tWhat
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 7:20 PM
Yeah, what happened to TW? Did the total collapse of the US economy, anarchy in the streets, etc. drive him to his concrete bunker... only to discover his router power cable had been chewed through by rats?
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 7:23 PM
Fort Greene is the best neighborhood in brooklyn period.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 9:15 PM
I agree, 9:15--except that Greenwood Heights blows it out of the motherfucking water.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 9:41 PM
Ft. Greene is the new Park Slope. Anyone who doesn't see it has blinders on.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 10:05 PM
Greenwood Heights?
Now THAT's funny. It's got the visual appeal of pre-boom Williamsburg and none of the amenities.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 10:35 PM
Being the best neighborhood in brooklyn is like being the gold medalist in the special olympics
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 10:59 PM
i just like brooklyn
Posted by: Santa at January 30, 2008 11:01 PM
9:41-Where the fuck is Greenwood Heights?
10:05- Wrong. Ft. Greene is NOT the new park slope. Park Slope sucks. Ft. Green rules.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 11:01 PM
"Favela" may or may not be synonymous with the generic term "ghetto," "slum," or whatever--doesn't matter.
It's still fucked up to name a restaurant Favela. Not just "un-PC," which I don't care about at all. Just stupid. (Unless, I suppose, the owner intends to celebrate unique and amazing street foods that originate in the Favelas, which is actually an amazing idea for a restaurant--and in which case I would completely apologize. Or if the chef/owner grew up in the Favelas, in which case he/she has every right.)
If you've been to Rio de Janeiro, as I have, and if you've seen what a Favela actually is--which is to say, a vast, staggeringly dangerous, desperately poor shantytown on the sides of various mountains, directly adjacent to the most gorgeous and valuable beaches and real-estate in the city--you'd understand why it's bizarre to christen an eatery for comfy, casual New York diners after these symbols of poverty and crime.
Posted by: Rehab at January 30, 2008 11:07 PM
Ft. Greene can kiss my ass. Weak ass neighborhood and anyone who says it isn't is living a LIE. Suck it Greeners!
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 11:15 PM
11:15-you can kiss my ass. Ft. Greene is beautiful and your fucking weak.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 11:26 PM
11:15 pm, you've written 90% of this thread, as you often do, and you're boring and obvious. Which is why nobody is responding to you.
zzzzzzzzzzzz
Posted by: Rehab at January 30, 2008 11:29 PM
For the love of god, 11:26, did you skip junior high school?
It's "YOU'RE."
"You're" = "you are"
"Your" = possessive, as in "Your car"
Some people, ya wonder how they manage to feed themselves.
However, aside from English, YOU'RE absolutely right-- Ft. Greene is one of the best neighborhoods in all of NYC. Love it.
Posted by: Rehab at January 30, 2008 11:33 PM
SUCK IT!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 11:42 PM
Rehab- Thanks for the correction. Actually dropped out in the 9th grade. I may not have a lot of school smarts but I have streets smarts, common sense, and I am a hardworking individual which enables me to feed myself just fine. Oh yea, and I have a ton of heart.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 11:45 PM
11:29: Why did you respond? Are you a fucktard asshat?
Posted by: guest at January 31, 2008 12:41 AM
Rehab, if you think Fort Greene is a nice neighborhood, you might be the stupidest moron in the history of idiotville. It is so clearly not a nice neighborhood in ANY WAY that I don't know where to start in pointing out how ridiculously awful it is. Okay, for one, it SUCKS. And it BLOWS. Plus, it's totally fucking lame as shit. Should I go on? Okay, it's so fucking awful and stupid and full of fucktard idiots who think that it doesn't suck, which makes it suck SO MUCH MORE!!! And it is totally, fully, just a bunch of terrible people living side by side in a giant clusterfuck of awful, sucky, neighborhood bullshit.
Plus, it's the worst neighborhood ever, too. Okay? So will you shut the fuck up already? I rest my case!
Posted by: guest at January 31, 2008 6:30 AM
Whoa, guest 6:30, time to get to the Dayroom for your meds...
Posted by: Rehab at January 31, 2008 9:03 AM
6:30 is an angry and miserable person. He hates his neighborhood and hates on other hoods. Just one terrible person.
Posted by: guest at January 31, 2008 9:34 AM
6:30 here. 9:34 and 9:03, How DARE you imply that I am a terrible, dangerous person in need of "meds" (I'm speaking to you only on that one, 9:03!) Just because I have done voluminous research and polling do determine that Fort Greene is the suckiest neighborhood in the history of really lame-assed neighborhoods?
Well, if that's the case, I'm happy to be a terrible, dangerous, "meds" needing person, because some day the truth about how really, really, really awful Fort Greene is as a neighborhood will come out and I will be vindicated. It really wasn't even necessary for me to compile the numerous interviews, affidavits, hidden camera confessions and sworn blood-oaths that I did! Because the absolute worthlessness of every inch of pavement, building material and greenery in the neighborhood henceforth to be known as "Wart Spleen" is apparent to any non-ninny who takes as much as a two minute stroll down one of its ridiculously awful, terrible, worthless streets!
But I do have the evidence, and mark my words, one day it will come out and all of you will be sorry that you ever questioned me. Until that day, VIVA GRAVESEND!
Posted by: guest at January 31, 2008 9:57 AM
I like Gravesend. But it's no Bed-Stuy!
Posted by: guest at January 31, 2008 9:59 AM
Bed Stuy RULES!!! Best neighborhood bar none.
Posted by: guest at January 31, 2008 10:53 AM
MILL BASIN is where it's at. All the cool people know that.
Posted by: guest at January 31, 2008 11:05 AM
Mill Basin is a Fort Greene wannabe!
Posted by: guest at January 31, 2008 11:55 AM
When the East is in the House......
Posted by: guest at January 31, 2008 3:39 PM
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