StreetLevel: Another French Bistro for 5th Avenue
Francophilic Fifth Avenue made room for yet another Gallic eatery recently with the opening of Canaille between St. Marks and Warren. The very small one-room restaurant serves appetizers like French onion soup and salmon tartare (both $8), and entrees like steak frite and braised short ribs (both $18). The couple of times we’ve walked by…
Francophilic Fifth Avenue made room for yet another Gallic eatery recently with the opening of Canaille between St. Marks and Warren. The very small one-room restaurant serves appetizers like French onion soup and salmon tartare (both $8), and entrees like steak frite and braised short ribs (both $18). The couple of times we’ve walked by the restaurant in the evening it’s been completely deserted, and we’re wondering how much appetite there is in the Slope for more French food (the crowded 5th Ave. field already includes Belleville, Cocotte, Moutarde, and recent addition AOC Bistro). In response to a positive review of the joint on Chowhound, for example, someone comments, “that list of food you ordered is exactly what i am not interested in…good luck making a go of it on 5th ave in 2007.” Think that person’s got a point?
Canaille on 5th Ave, Park Slope [Chowhound] GMAP
ok. i’ll try luscious. always seems to be closed when i walk by though. along with everything else.
5th avenue in general needs to step up it’s hours.
if it’s going to be a restaurant and shopping destination how about having regular hours and perhaps staying open for dinner past 11.
and how is anyone supposed to shop when everything is closed at 7. wait for the weekend?
new york is so not the city that never sleeps.
seems like people in park slope sleep plenty.
3:03 PM You can get salads made to order down the street at Luscious.
All I know is I walked into Canaille with a friend on Sunday around 1pm, and the lone person there was over-the-top “astonished” that we had come inside.
She said, with an attitude “We won’t be open until this evening.”
Then why is the door unlocked? I already dislike the place. Next.
learn how to cook. you bunch of LOSERS.
I would love to see a place where you can get salads made to order.
Something like you can do at Europan.
Maybe that new Organic Heights joint on Bergen will be a winner.
Belleville, Cocotte and Moutarde are all veeeery tired, much less friendly than their peers on Smith Street. I’m quite fond of A.O.C, especially the nervous and intense French guy that runs the place, though it’s a little more formal. Canaille might make a go of it, and I think its biggest problem, as it was for the its predecessor Red Door, will be its tiny footprint. I’m not sure there’s an upper limit to the number of a particular type of restaurant the Slope can sustain – just look at how many Italian places there are.
I second on a good Indian place.
Kinara, Bombay Grill and Amin are all pretty mediocre.
Also, re: American food, check out Barbecue on 20th and 6th Ave. It’s a schlep and it’s a tad hipsterific, but the food is worth it.
Too bad. At least Red Cafe, which this replaced, was a bit different from everything else on the avenue (it was red, for one thing).
Bonnie’s is also a great diner.
We need no more diners in Park Slope.
What we need is Ethiopian or a really good Indian place.
Or maybe a brick oven pizza parlor.