Streetlevel: Five Guys Burgers Taking Over Busy Chef Spot
Busy Chef has not been busy enough. Just a year after opening, the prepared foods purveyor has closed. Replacing it: Five Guys Burgers, a burger chain with over 300 locations around the country. Interesting move considering there’s already a Five Guys restaurant on Montague Street. Must be doing well! Update: Though Five Guys was negotiation…
Busy Chef has not been busy enough. Just a year after opening, the prepared foods purveyor has closed. Replacing it: Five Guys Burgers, a burger chain with over 300 locations around the country. Interesting move considering there’s already a Five Guys restaurant on Montague Street. Must be doing well! Update: Though Five Guys was negotiation for this space, reports The Brooklyn Paper, they ended up not taking it because the landlord wanted too much money.
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BH – no idea. sorry.
BoD – yeah, not sure who is posting for ‘stoner today, but it can’t be anybody who knows the first thing about Brooklyn. So what is the status of the criminal court case v. the owner of Busy Chef? Don’t think it’s gone to trial yet.
Sorry, Craig.
The burger at Peaches is very good. The fries are excellent. If you’re reading this Ben or Greg, please, get at least one normal non-wheaty beer…like a Sol or Pacifico or Becks…even Presidente.
I had heard good things about Five Guys, and went to the one on 7th Ave in anticipation. I was really disappointed.
I think that they are trying to emulate the “Inn’n’Out” burger chain that operates on the west coast (and which received praise in the book “Fast Food Nation”). If that was Five Guys’ goal, they have fallen well short. I have been to Inn’n’Out several times during my trips to the west coast, and it lived up to their fame. I would heartily recommend that folks try this burger joint. It shows that fast food chains don’t necessarily have to be bad. It’s a yummy burger and the potatos are cut fresh right in the place.
Yech! IMO. based on my my one visit to Five Guys’ 7th Avenue place, they’re a glorified McD’s. Granted, their fries are much better and their beef appears to be better quality, but the overdone gray hamburgers are definitely fast-food quality, even though they cost as much as REAL burgers.
There’s no better burgar than Burger Joint, 11217. Although Goodburger up the street from my office here on Lexington is pretty good but the fries suck.
um yeah hello, actually the Busy Chef was *very* busy this past year……serving up a lil credit card fraud to their customers!
Would not be surprised if this is just a move from one location to another with perhaps some overlap. The Montague location is not that great given that the stairs probably cut down on their foot traffic.