Ozzie's Also Shuttered by the DOH
Another one bites the dust: after yesterday’s post about La Taqueria getting slapped with a big yellow DOH sticker, a commenter noted Ozzie’s on 5th Avenue suffered a similar fate. We couldn’t find their “grade” on The Department of Health’s restaurant search engine but their 7th Avenue location received an A. A sign on Ozzie’s…
Another one bites the dust: after yesterday’s post about La Taqueria getting slapped with a big yellow DOH sticker, a commenter noted Ozzie’s on 5th Avenue suffered a similar fate. We couldn’t find their “grade” on The Department of Health’s restaurant search engine but their 7th Avenue location received an A. A sign on Ozzie’s door apologizes for the inconvenience and says, “Be assured that we are working hard on reopening as soon as possible.”
Noki,
Would be happy to give you the One One Park Slope insider list.
And yes, will definitely have to meet you. 🙂
My experience is virtually identical to 11217. When I first moved to the Slope, Ozzie’s (on 5th) was my place for coffee. Once I discovered Cafe Regular, that was it. Then onto Cafe Martin.
I can’t remember the last time I went to Ozzie’s.
Root Hill is pretty good (nice people run it) and Southside is great.
One one. You are a font of knowledge. I swear, if we ever move (I know, I know, eye rollin’ everywhere, and rightfully so) to the nabe, you’ll be the first to know 🙂
(and I’ll make you come and meet me too!)
And actually the best coffee in the hood (in my opinion) is Cafe Martin (formerly of Cafe Regular fame). Guy makes a DAMN good cup o joe!
Cafe Grumpy is great too, but that’s a bit far for me to travel for a coffee on a regular basis.
I get the sentiment, infinite. When I first moved to the Slope, I used to go to Ozzie’s as well, because it was the closest place to my house and sometimes proximity trumps all else in NYC.
Ever since Cafe Regular opened, I never set foot in Ozzie’s again. It’s not that I don’t think of it fondly (because I do) I just prefer a great cup of coffee to one that tastes like dirt. Especially when the prices are equal.
You sound like a sweet guy.
but overall the food area seemed clean. no more dirty than anywhere else.
*rob*
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How exactly would you know? Aren’t you the guy who went a week without washing your clothes?
wow traditionalmod..
ive been here many times and it never struck me as dirty. i dont know about the cloth couches and stuff i would never sit on such detritus, but overall the food area seemed clean. no more dirty than anywhere else.
*rob*
quote:
When I moved here my mom wanted a bagel one morning as I unpacked and she went there and got one.
your mom helped you move?!
*rob*
This place is filthy. Literally one of the most disgustingly kept businesses I have ever set foot in. You can go to coffee places in the poorest neighborhoods and find more cleanliness than you see here. Seems the biggest “sense of entitlement” in Park Slope is at Ozzies! Because they never felt they needed to clean or update their space to keep their customers. Ozzies always represented to me the complete inadequacy of the NYC DOH. Or nonexistence of the DOH. Let’s hope this really does mean a new era.