Foodies as the New Gentrifiers
The Brooklyn Paper has an article this morning about the gentrifying effect of upscale food establishments. The artists might get to a new neighborhood first, say the article, but in recent years, a new cafe or thin crust pizza restaurant is the sure sign that a neighborhood has hit its tipping point. “Food is the…
The Brooklyn Paper has an article this morning about the gentrifying effect of upscale food establishments. The artists might get to a new neighborhood first, say the article, but in recent years, a new cafe or thin crust pizza restaurant is the sure sign that a neighborhood has hit its tipping point. “Food is the new art in the urban cultural experience,” said Sharon Zukin, author of Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Culture. “You used to have artists moving in and opening galleries, now there are foodies moving in and opening up cafes.” The examples are legion: K-Dog in Prospect Lefferts Garden, The Farm on Adderly in Ditmas Park, Northeast Kingdom followed by Roberta’s in Bushwick, Saraghina in Bed Stuy. Even Kensington made it only the foodie map recently with the opening of Brancaccio’s Food Shop. Of course, not all pioneering restaurateurs are met with success: Abigail’s proved too pricey for Crown Heights and Bread Stuy’s recents problems have been well publicized. Another other good examples you can think of? Surely the L Cafe in North Williamsburg and Diner in South Williamsburg deserved mention. Others?
Foodies Now Leading the Gentrification of Brooklyn [Brooklyn Paper]
Those smiling people in the ad, I mean photo, for Northeast Kingdom look like they were imported and posed by the photographer. They are smiling so much it looks like an ad for Del Frisco’s on Taxi TV.
“an avant-garde pizzeria”
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OK, the apocalypse is here.
GQ food critics?
Actually, Roberta’s was mentioned in Vogue a few months ago by Jeffrey Steingarten. Same article also approvingly mentioned Popeye’s.
I love him forever because he once said Acme Bakery in Berkeley makes the best bread in the country.
“If there is anything that gentrified Brooklynites love more than gentrifying the rest of Brooklyn, it’s eating out.”
Who thinks up these ridiculous ledes?
Checkers is a snack. It’s all carbs and you’re starving five minutes later.
For me, a proper dinner requires sit down, green veg, protein, and hopefully a glass of vino in addition to the other usual things. This is quite easy in California but in NYC apparently this is asking for too much.
mopar, where do you draw the line??? Is Chinese takeout not a proper meal but Chinese sit down is?? What about Mexican? Are tacos not proper but enchiladas suizas with sides of lettuce, beans & rice???
Is a pizza at Saraghina not proper but the burratina plus an entree of lasagne is??
I saw that, DIBS! I think we were shockingly well behaved Cheap wine doesn’t intoxicate you like the good stuff. 😉
mopar, no parlour floor powder room in the ghetto. Although I’ve been debating tucking a small one in but really, no one should use it while there are other people there, you’d “hear things.”
Checkers is shockingly good. But not a proper meal.