Another Vietnamese Sandwich Shop Coming to the Slope
The old Scaredy Kat spot on 5th Avenue between President and Carroll has a new tenant coming: A Vietnamese sandwich and bubble tea shop is filling the small space, according to a sign that’s gone up in the window. If the rumor about the other banh mi place on 5th Avenue turns out to be…
The old Scaredy Kat spot on 5th Avenue between President and Carroll has a new tenant coming: A Vietnamese sandwich and bubble tea shop is filling the small space, according to a sign that’s gone up in the window. If the rumor about the other banh mi place on 5th Avenue turns out to be true, that’ll mean there are four banh mi joints in the Slope, two on 5th Ave and two on 7th. GMAP
“I still wish one of them would open a “real” Vietnamese place instead of a sandwich joint.”
100% agree with you there. Would love that.
True, the saturation point has not been reached yet.
It is just this weird pattern of restaurant carpet-bombing occurs over and over. Somebody opens a restaurant of a particular type, then a bunch of copycats jump on board.
But as you said, it is a long neighborhood, so spreading them out on the north and south ends of the neighborhood is addressing a possible business opportunity.
I still wish one of them would open a “real” Vietnamese place instead of a sandwich joint.
I still don’t think the Park Slope market is saturated with Vietnamese yet.
As you know…Park Slope is a very long neighborhood. People who live up in the named streets RARELY walk down to 12/14th Streets (currently where the Vietnamese joints are on 7th).
And I doubt that people in the South Slope routinely walk up to the north…especially not to get a sandwich.
When I tell my neighbors about new stuff opening down in the South Slope (I actually do walk down there often because I go to the gym there) you’d think I was talking about Greenland.
The 20 block-ish span of Park Slope supports multiples of some things in the North and in the South, I do believe.
We’ll see I guess. As I said, this is the closest one to me, and is of most interest since I could eat Vietnamese sandwiches a couple times a week.
And Elementi opened in 2007, so I wasn’t considering that in the list of places which opened and closed within the year.
> Nothin’ like hoping businesses fail and people lose their jobs…
Pointing out that someone might fail because they are entering what might be seen as a saturated marketplace is not the same as hoping for them to fail.
> So 2 1/2 Italian Places closed in the hood this year.
Out of 5-6 new ones that opened. That is not such a great batting average. Then again, it’s not out of line with typical success ratios for restaurants, so perhaps my “saturate marketplace” theory is not on the mark.
> Elementi space is … going to be a bar
Excellent news.
Yeah, Snark…that’s right.
But if that place can stay open doing events exclusively, I’m not really sure that’s such a bad thing.
So 2 1/2 Italian Places closed in the hood this year.
I’ve heard that the Elemnti space is being taken over by the people who run Johnny Mack’s and that it’s going to be a bar. Much needed on 7th…
Elementi on 7th. And didn’t Alta Voce close for regular business, and is now open only for events?
Oh yeah, Elementi.
Nothin’ like hoping businesses fail and people lose their jobs before the place even opens!
Merry Xmas!
Besides Primmo Atto, what other Italian place closed in the hood this year? I’m drawing a blank…?