Brooklyn Food & Drink Round-Up
Closings: Patois, Bay Ridge Chip Shop, and Jill’s “Alan Harding just called to say that Patois, the pioneer restaurant on Smith Street in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, that he opened in 1997 will close on Sunday. Brunch and dinner will be the last service,” reports Florence Fabricant for the New York Times. Plus, Eater reports that…
Closings: Patois, Bay Ridge Chip Shop, and Jill’s
“Alan Harding just called to say that Patois, the pioneer restaurant on Smith Street in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, that he opened in 1997 will close on Sunday. Brunch and dinner will be the last service,” reports Florence Fabricant for the New York Times. Plus, Eater reports that the Bay Ridge branch of Chip Shop was shuttered on New Year’s Eve, and Brunch Anytime says that Jill’s, the health food joint at 231 Court Street, closed on December 29.
Openings: Three New Bars
The East Village bar D.B.A. has opened a second location at 113 North 7th Street between Berry and Wythe streets, says Grub Street — and they’ve got 16 beers on tap, 3 hand-pulled real ales, and “artisanal cheeses, charcuterie, and other things that go well with beer.” Cornelius, a new cocktails-and-small-plates spot is set to open at 565 Vanderbilt Avenue at Pacific Street in Prospect Heights this Monday, January 12, Eater reports. And Brunch Anytime heard a rumor that “the owners of Bar Great Harry have put in papers to secure the spot across from the old Trout on Smith Street (which use to be an optometrist) for a new bar.”
After the jump: Roots Cafe, Five Leaves, Buttermilk Channel, Kelso of Brooklyn, and Morton’s vs. Peter Luger…
A Rave Review for Roots Cafe’s Coffee
639A Fifth Avenue, between 17th and 18th Streets
“This is hands-down, the most insanely awesome, mind-blowing coffee that has ever graced our caffeine-stained lips. We are honored and humbled by this coffee; we have found religion, and it is a roasted bean. This is coffee from another dimension, ineffable, incomprehensible. The people at Stumptown Coffee are alchemists — nay, wizards.” [Eat Me Daily]
The Times Hits Five Leaves
“It’s a restaurant that could get by on looks alone…. But despite the modest ambitions and reasonable prices… the kitchen, taken over recently by Ken Addington, turns out unexpectedly refined Australian comfort food… Juicy and crisp roast chicken ($18) appears with a stack of potato gratin and chard, but it was the flavorful hen-of-the-woods mushrooms, cooked with red wine and demi-glace and finished with port and cream, that had me swabbing the plate. ” [NY Times]
Quick Bites
A Brooklyn Life digs the new Carroll Gardens spot, Buttermilk Channel… Metromix takes a brewery tour of Kelso of Brooklyn in Greenpoint… And after visiting Morton’s, the Brooklyn Paper declares, “Peter Luger is no longer the best steakhouse in Brooklyn.”
Oh and in followup to my previous rants about Gersh Kuntzman and his rag the Brooklyn Paper. There could be no better demonstration of the guys opinion (and his paper) being a joke then the idea that Mortons is even in the same class as Peter Lugars.
Gersh Kuntzman and his paper are an embarrassment to Brooklyn
It is sad because Patois did start the trend but what do you expect – it has been horrible (food and service) for at least the last 8 years.
B.o.D’s
trout/pacifico/GYC/bklyn social guys – are the same guys who owned patois.
so i guess you can rule them out.
I didn’t love Patois, but am feeling nostalgic. Boerum Hill Food Company last month; Patois this month. Those two, plus Smith Street Kitchen and Halcyon, are the first places that I remember getting excited about on Smith Street.
Oh well, things change — but its clear that the neighborhood’s exciting stage is done.
where’s he moving it to? not that i care because as biff says, the place is only meh. let’s see who snaps up that space:
trout/pacifico/GYC/bklyn social guys
or
S+Vine/Stinkys/J-walk guys
The Patois closing shouldn’t be that shocking. It received lackluster reviews when posted as the ROTD
http://bstoner.wpengine.com/restaurants/2008/08/patois.php
The landlord got too greedy so Allan Harding decided to move shop.
I’ve said it before, but it’s a shame more of these businesses which came in at the start when things were cheap didn’t have the foresight to purchase their property.
In 1997, you could have bought that entire building on Smith for what…like 200K?
I know that’s a lot of dough, but it’s the people who bought who are now able to stand the test of time…
Seconding what Jebby says; I was there before Patois opened and it turned Smith St. into a whole new world. Hopefully this doesn’t portend a return to those days.