The Slope's Most Cursed Corner?
The question of whether the corner of President and 5th is just bad luck for restaurants arises on a Brooklynian thread about the shuttering of Playa and Cabana Bar, which opened a little over a year ago in that location. Prior to that, the space briefly hosted three other eateries: Night & Day, Lookout Hill,…
The question of whether the corner of President and 5th is just bad luck for restaurants arises on a Brooklynian thread about the shuttering of Playa and Cabana Bar, which opened a little over a year ago in that location. Prior to that, the space briefly hosted three other eateries: Night & Day, Lookout Hill, and Biscuit BBQ. The closing of Playa, though, seems sorta odd, as it did much steadier business than the three places that preceded it. A source close to the restaurant gives the following account of Playa’s shuttering: The guy who ran the three businesses before Playa was brought in as a partner on the new venture because he owned the space’s liquor license. However, he’s now in a legal dispute with the landlord and pulled out of his partnership in Playa, taking the liquor license with him. Playa couldn’t turn a profit without the booze license, hence the closing. There’s probably a lot different takes on why it closed, but that’s one of them. In any event, what would you like to see go into the space next? GMAP
a Corcoran office.
a Corcoran office.
BOD;
Chadwicks, on 3rd Ave and about 88th Street. On Saturday night they have a Prime Rib/Beef Wellington special that is to die for!!
benson – i just moved down to bay ridge, where can I find a good steak therE? YUM!!!
Yeah, already a butcher on 5th.
Rob, I totally agree with you…the folks on Brooklynian make me hate Park Slope most of the time.
I’ll third the steakhouse. Yum. Are there any good steaks in the slope now? I’ve had steak once at Blue Ribbon. It was good, but not spectacular.
“A Butcher”????
M&S Pork Store is two blocks up
There once was a steak house (of sorts) in the Moutarde space….Real Steakhouses need ‘suits’ and there are few working in Park Slope.
But for an amazing Steak go to Convivium, their Rib Eye is amazing IMHO (2nd best steak in the city)
*******Bill Thompson is an empty suit********
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Someone on the Brooklynian thread mentioned a good BBQ place a la Fette Sau.
gack, how can you stand the people on that site? ALL they do is whine and trash talk the people who live in their neighborhoods and their neighbors. whiniest group of people EVER. i cant read a single thread there without wanting to B-Slap 99 percent of the posters so i no longer put myself thru the torture of reading there.
*rob*
Further clarification: I go to Bay Ridge for a good steak house when I don’t feel like taking a mortgage out on my house to go out to eat (see: Pete Luger’s).