"Gourmet-To-Go" for Park Slope
Lucas Fine Foods, offering “an array of seasonal gourmet-to-go foods cooked using fine artisanal ingredients,” is getting ready to open across the street from the Park Slope Food Co-op. They’ll be providing prepared meals, catering services, salads, sandwiches, Balthazar pastries, coffee, and boxed lunches for kids. The chef behind the project, Misty Kurpier, is identified…
Lucas Fine Foods, offering “an array of seasonal gourmet-to-go foods cooked using fine artisanal ingredients,” is getting ready to open across the street from the Park Slope Food Co-op. They’ll be providing prepared meals, catering services, salads, sandwiches, Balthazar pastries, coffee, and boxed lunches for kids. The chef behind the project, Misty Kurpier, is identified on the shop’s website as a “Park Slope resident and mom.” A twitter update from the shop that was posted last week said, “Hood, Fire Suppression, plumbing complete! Painting in progress, 75% employees hired…almost there!” GMAP
Lucas Fine Foods Coming to Union [Brownstoner]
i stuck my head into the lucas-in-progress site the other day, and if the food turns out to be as nice as its proprietor, it ought to do just fine.
as-for the sexual politics that were injected into the
chatter earlier: the fact that she acknowledges that she’s a mom starting-up a business makes me more inclined to shop there.
“Simple, BK… the Heights is full of old money people who either have help or who don’t have to work 18 hours a day to support their mortgage and private schools. So they have time to cook.”
You’re right that BK Heights is full of “old money”–however, that “old money” means they have too much common sense to waste irresponsible amounts of their loot on these ridiculous, overpriced, pretentious pseudo-gourmet markets. The Heights people are also different from Park Slopers in that most Heights folk actually work real jobs amd don’t design their lives around trends and what other yupsters think.
Parentally-subsidized middle-aged Park Slope hipster-yuppies, on the other hand, fall over themselves to piss their suburban parents’ 401k’s on places like this after a long exhausting 18 hour” Tuesday of yoga, skateboarding, and lolling around the farmers’ market.
“how does (1 street in) park slope support all those places while brooklyn heights with its perennially high rents, working professionals &ct. &ct. have only lassen and hennings”
Simple, BK… the Heights is full of old money people who either have help or who don’t have to work 18 hours a day to support their mortgage and private schools. So they have time to cook.
What fawn and infinitejester said. This area can definitely support this type of place. There really aren’t too many options for good, prepared meals in the area. I’ve gotten tired of Union Market’s selections, and Blue Apron doesn’t provide this service. (I do like Luscious on Fifth Avenue, but it’s a bit out of the way.) I can’t wait for this place to open!!!
parkplacer -“Trying to come up with food for kids is exhausting. I’d pay to have someone who knows what they’ll eat do that for me every once in a while!”
& I’d like a wife who will let me have sex with whomever I want and not get angry, jealous or ask for the same.
Yes, I think adding mom to her description makes sense if she’s trying to drum up business for people who want to buy boxed lunches specifically for kids.
Trying to come up with food for kids is exhausting. I’d pay to have someone who knows what they’ll eat do that for me every once in a while!
No, this was a frame store that closed down last year. The tea lounge is a couple of doors down (the one that closed in the Slope was on 7th ave, further south).
I also think they might have tough competition with Blue Apron a stone’s throw away. But, we’ll see!
frsg, good point. I see this place as a Lassen and Hennigs kind of place – since I live in North Slope I can stop here on my way home. Get Fresh had a little too many vegan-tendencies I think, L & H has a lot of hearty meals which would be more appealing I think.
I think she added it to ad because she is specifically making a line of boxed lunch “for kids”? im a “gay” man too and i dont think that aspect is off putting. lol at the things im defending today
*rob*