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]
Oh, when we were doing really dirty jobs at home trying to clean up the place enough to make it livable, we would feel a need to go to Saraghina to kind of de-tox from the grossneess. I always wondered if they wondered why we were so disheveled and not nicely dressed.
Posted by: mopar at March 1, 2010 1:02 PM
Yes, I can remember seeing you come in. What an eyesore and social faux pas. It was as if you had gone to La Grenouille without a jacket and tie. 🙂
Its very hard to cook for one person – especially if your nabe doesn’t have a “real” grocery store and only has fifi organic markets (I’m lookin at you Khims)
Jimmy, is it good? Or overpriced?
Oh, when we were doing really dirty jobs at home trying to clean up the place enough to make it livable, we would feel a need to go to Saraghina to kind of de-tox from the grossneess. I always wondered if they wondered why we were so disheveled and not nicely dressed.
fsrq, I try to make that argument but my husband insists it’s always cheaper to eat at home than pay $40 apiece (or even $15 apiece) for dinner. But if you’re single, you can always find a $3 taco from a cart to supplement with a salad and glass of wine at home. That’s a good deal.
We’ve been making about four dinners a week at home. I consider that not bad for someone who works in an office (I used to eat out only once a week when I worked at home). Sometimes I am just tired, I work late, I want to go out someplace nice.
lol
It just seems dumb to make up another category of people, because it just gives people (like some of the commenters here) an excuse to make up imaginary characteristics to fit that group (they never cook at home, they “claim superior knowledge of ingredients”), so they can bash them on the internet.
Posted by: ninethreesix at March 1, 2010 12:48 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSuylzFZXb4
The “foodie” label seems kind of silly. Is anyone who eats at a new restaurant in an otherwise barren neighborhood a foodie? Don’t most people like food, and most who can afford it occasionally go out to eat? “Foodie” would seem to include nearly all middle class people these days.
It just seems dumb to make up another category of people, because it just gives people (like some of the commenters here) an excuse to make up imaginary characteristics to fit that group (they never cook at home, they “claim superior knowledge of ingredients”), so they can bash them on the internet.
quote:
“as long as they have a dollar menu, I’m ok with it.”
LOL <3
*rob*