StreetLevel: At the Lyceum, Coffee But no Klatsch
There hasn’t been much buzz about El Cafetin, the coffee shop at the Brooklyn Lyceum, despite the fact that it’s been open for a few months now. The café traffics in a standard assortment of brews, espresso drinks, and snacks, and it’s outfitted with a ragtag assortment of furniture (see photo on jump). Even though…
There hasn’t been much buzz about El Cafetin, the coffee shop at the Brooklyn Lyceum, despite the fact that it’s been open for a few months now. The café traffics in a standard assortment of brews, espresso drinks, and snacks, and it’s outfitted with a ragtag assortment of furniture (see photo on jump). Even though the space gets great natural light and has free wi-fi, it’s often deserted after the morning crush—surprising for a stretch with a not-so-small army of freelancers and very few coffee shop options. El Cafetin’s owner says he’s looking to raise the business’s profile by offering to-be-determined classes in the coming months. Think that’s the jolt this java joint needs? GMAP
Whatever the issues may be with the management…
I got to see Fiona Apple.
Not many other places in Brooklyn can do that.
As for the Red Sox thing, not a smart comment in a town that dropped out of the playoffs in the first round.
But neither are the snarky comments about how the Lyceum doesn’t fit with everyones disparate design aesthetic.
To each his own. I’m sure it will make great condos if it stops being a theater.
Wow, between that interior photo (that space has GOT to be modeled after my high school rec room) and the owner’s a-hole response to constructive criticism this post makes for some pretty potent anti-incentive. Nope, never gonna check that place out now.
Wel bet is roten appul out of hoord
Than that it rotie al the remenaunt
Is a Chaucer Caneterbury Tales reference? Well done, nerd.
Red Sox – bathhouse HAhaha HA
I think they clean the front steps whenever the Red Sox win the Series.
Do they serve Coco Crispy’s? Damn Red Sux.
“Movies, batting cages, operas, jazz, weddings, etc.”
It’s kinda like that ad that sez: “Do you want to go to an auto shop that also does root canal work?”
The overachieving nature of the Lyceum is a little odd, and I have to agree w/ the above posters that the response from management was very defensive and, I think, unprofessional. (Although I could care less about sports or team loyalties.)
I’ve always thought something was wrong with the Lyceum – sorry, you’ve got to try harder to give people a reason to spend their dollars at your place of business.
Making any eating/drinking/coffee space squeaky clean is ALWAYS the priority. Why not start there?
Just make it look like a place that is open and supposed to be entered by the public and get some chairs that didn’t come from a p.s. dumpster. If you can’t get people to stop on the way to the subway- you are doing something wrong.