Streetlevel: New Japanese Restaurant at 385 Flatbush

A new Japanese restaurant is about to open on the Prospect Heights side of Flatbush Avenue between Sterling Place and Plaza Street East. Called Shitake (after the mushroom, presumably, not the stomach ailment), the new establishment replaces chain restaurant Wok N Roll. No advance word on the quality level but, as one Brooklynian commenter put it, "it can't be worse than wok n roll." GMAP

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they should have gone with the more correct (?) spelling of "Shiitake" to avoid the obvious jokes that'll be made especially if the food turns out to be bad.

Posted by: goldie at February 10, 2009 2:10 PM

Isn't the common name for Lentinula edodes spelled "shiitake?"

Posted by: altervoce at February 10, 2009 2:39 PM

i just googled it and its spelled both ways.

just walked by it today. Hopefully its not a sushi place.

Posted by: Santa at February 10, 2009 3:17 PM

My advice: go next door and buy a beef pattie.

Posted by: East New York at February 10, 2009 3:25 PM

If it's a sushi place run by Chinese, it very well will be worse than Wok n Roll...and I can say this, being Chinese and all...my peeps can cook but they can't do raw...

Posted by: ctinbklyn at February 10, 2009 5:07 PM

Wow, this place has yet to open and people are already making negative comments about it. Classic brownstoner...

Posted by: Big Jugs at February 10, 2009 8:57 PM

Wok and Roll was not bad if you ordered off the menu in Cantonese! (Can you say, "Heung gong sik won ton min"?) The phony Sichuan slop that they foisted onto unwitting gwailos, though, was truly awful.

That row of buildings is owned by Ms. Fang, the Dragon Lady landlord of Flatbush Avenue, so you can be sure that the new sushi place is somehow connected to my Middle Kingdom brothers.

Posted by: WonTon at February 10, 2009 9:06 PM

i'll just go get a pattie.

Posted by: Santa at February 10, 2009 10:24 PM

I hear its a great place to eat and service is terrific and the food is terrific. you should stop in and try it.

Posted by: northflatbushgirl at February 16, 2009 5:58 AM

i actually tried the food, there is sushi stuff but the menu is eclectic and diverse and everything is fresh and made to order. The srvie was great and the prices reasonalbe. I left the restaurant assured to myself that I would be back. The sushi is much better than Geido too. just try it and see for yourself.

Posted by: northflatbushgirl at February 20, 2009 10:18 PM

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Streetlevel: New Japanese Restaurant at 385 Flatbush

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