Rave Review for W'burg Dining Hegemonists
We may be biased because we used to rent an apartment from Andrew Tarlow and Mark Firth (and because an ad of theirs appears at right) but we thought today’s review in The Times of their Williamsburg eatery Marlow & Sons was right on. The two entrepreneurs have exhibited a remarkable ability to create restaurants…
We may be biased because we used to rent an apartment from Andrew Tarlow and Mark Firth (and because an ad of theirs appears at right) but we thought today’s review in The Times of their Williamsburg eatery Marlow & Sons was right on. The two entrepreneurs have exhibited a remarkable ability to create restaurants (first at Diner, then Bonita, then Marlow) that offer pitch-perfect ambience and delicious food at reasonable price points. Nine times out of ten, that’s what we’re looking for when we want to step out for a bite. With the population on the South side of Williamsburg set to balloon in upcoming years, the trick is going to be getting a table at any of these places. Our solution? Showing up at six with the kids in tow. All we can ask for now is for the duo to expand their empire to Clinton Hill. Please!
Stop for Drinks, Stay for Dinner [NY Times] GMAP
I have no experience whatsoever in the restaurant business, but since moving to Clinton Hill I’ve been pondering the possibility of opening one with increasing frequency. Threads like these make me think that it’s a sure-fire idea, failures and closings of nearly half of the existing restaurants in the neighborhood temper my enthusiasm somewhat. I’m thinking something simple – I hate the term “comfort food”, but I guess that’s the closest description. And no gimmicks- is it just me or is Brooklyn particularly impressionable that way. No ‘organically grown in a bushwick parking lot by a lesbian poetess’; just good, easy,inexpensive and tasty. Why is there virtually no place in the Clinton Hill/Fort Greene area to get a good sandwich for lunch or a decent blue plate special dinner? Anyone?
I second/third/fourth the motion! I haven’t been to Marlow & Sons but love love love Bonita & Diner– even though I’m a ft-greener from way back & prefer to eat here whenever I can.
yes! and they could offer parking for their patrons if they took over the laundromat!!!
Sounds great. Get them into the old Bodegas space or into a vacant space in the Putnam/Grand/Cambridge Place/Fulton intersection.
maybe we should start a campaign to get them over to ch/ft – they really are my all time favorite in any borough…the music is also always spot-on. how do we start this campaign? let’s do it?
Sorry 3.39. You’ll have to go to Carroll Gardens, Boerum Hill, Park Slope or Ft. Greene/Clinton Hill for a decent restaurant. I don’t get it either. Maybe Montague Street commercial rents are too high for independent decent restaurants.
How about Brooklyn Heights damn it! People there are bewildered and desperate for a good restaurant other than noodle pudding. Anyone have any suggestions by the way?
lol well since you put it that way maybe I’ll check this place out.
No. It’s in South Beach. Like I said, it’s a bizarre phenomenon.