Open and Shut
Williamsburg/Greenpoint Bar and restaurant Spritzenhaus in Greenpoint is shaping up to be massive, reports Eater. According to them, “the space is 6,000 square feet (about a quarter the size of Brooklyn Bowl) and includes a 100 foot bar, an open kitchen, a wood burning oven, a sidewalk cafe, and will serve 25 beers on tap…
Williamsburg/Greenpoint
Bar and restaurant Spritzenhaus in Greenpoint is shaping up to be massive, reports Eater. According to them, “the space is 6,000 square feet (about a quarter the size of Brooklyn Bowl) and includes a 100 foot bar, an open kitchen, a wood burning oven, a sidewalk cafe, and will serve 25 beers on tap at four different stations.” Wowza. WSJ reports that Nitehawk Cinema will make its premier at the end of the month. There will be two 92- and 68-seat theaters with a restaurant on the ground floor. We hear Saul Bolton will be doing the food there.
Clinton Hill
No! Alan Harding’s food truck, which we were pretty excited about around here, will not be serving this season at Hot Bird. Fork in the Road says management is looking for a new food vendor for the space. Any thoughts on vendors you’d like to see permanently at the Clinton Hill watering hole?
Park Slope
Sky Ice ice cream is coming to 5th and St. Marks according to Here’s Park Slope, and apparently it’s very close to opening. (It joins Prospect Height’s Ample Hills as ice cream arrivals this spring.) Culture Yogurt Company opens on 5th, FIPS goes bananas and promises: “Their yogurt is so good, it will blow your mind.” And in All About 5th’s commercial roundup, we learned there’s action at the Total Wine bar site (soon to be another wine bar), action at the Jeans Express site at 476 5th, and a total shutter at Patio Lounge. Lastly, Prime Six compromises.
Over in Prospect Heights, Fork in the Road dishes a bit about the new chef at Dean Street. And the Brooklyn Paper got word that Chianti’s, “old world Italian” in Bay Ridge, may be closed for good.
Someone posted to parkslopeparents last week that the Pavillion theater is getting rehabbed. Promises, promises! The one on Court St. (the Cobble Hill Theatre?) has been fixed up and it’s quite a bargain–$7 Tuesdays, Thursdays, and before 5 M-F I think.
Frankly I’d rather get something delivered to Hot Bird anyway. It’s a little too Habana Outposty with that truck.
MacDonald’s is just across the street from HotBird….no problem.
Why can’t Alan Harding just do one thing well and stick to it? He’s a good chef that has launched so many restaurants only to have them all go mediocre as soon as he inevitably jumps ship.
Someone needs to open a decent movie theater in or near Park Slope. (And no, the existing one near Bartel Pritchard Sq does not count as “decent.”) Something like Nitehawk would probably do well in, say, Gowanus (where it could draw from several different neighborhoods).
I believe Patio Lounge was the place with the sign outside, “PBRs – $4”
This is quite a good weekly feature!
Nitehawk is going to be MOBBED. Can anyone think of a more guaranteed success? I can’t wait to invite my favorite movie going companion to go.
Ah, too bad about Hot Bird. I did feel sorry for them last summer, cooking in that little sweat box in one of the hottest (if not THE hottest) summer on record. The food was good and what a nice time brownstoners had at the party we had there.
Please no dogs. Or toddlers. This is a bar. BAR.