Streetlevel: Lincoln Park Tavern To Open
In the wake of the meltdown of Jim Mamary’s empire, a new bar is rising from the ashes of Fly Fish at 49 Lincoln Road. The new watering hole will be called Lincoln Park Tavern. We suspect it will be opened with open arms. The word on the street (or, actually, at Enduro next door)…
In the wake of the meltdown of Jim Mamary’s empire, a new bar is rising from the ashes of Fly Fish at 49 Lincoln Road. The new watering hole will be called Lincoln Park Tavern. We suspect it will be opened with open arms. The word on the street (or, actually, at Enduro next door) is that the tavern will serve only drink, not food. GMAP
Yes I did love it. No it wasn’t “dirty” or “dusty”. It was witty. Appreciation for that requires a sense of humor and playfulness.
Yes I did love it. No it wasn’t “dirty” or “dusty”. It was witty. Appreciation for that requires a sense of humor and playfulness.
I like two kinds of decor: comfy/homey OR contemporary/ modern. Flyfish was neither. It was faux back-woods log cabin cum haunted house rediculousness. Did anyone really like it? Or did you just like the fact there was a “kinda OK” new restaurant.
From a design perspective it was both bland and uncomfortable, thus failing in both FORM and FUNCTION. If you want to use recycled and eclectic materials, you’ve gotta do it carefully. It doesn’t always work, and here, whatever charms you encountered when you walked in, quickly wore off, and within moments, you felt like you were sitting on bare wooden benches in a crowded, dirty and dusty police-precinct-like room being interrogated by the waitress as you sat beneath a bare light bulb. For most, that’s not the kinda mood you want to create in a dining establishment. I found this place to be far more contrived and pretentious than most. It felt fabricated and false – like being in a theatrical set. From a distance, it may appear real, but up close, something’s just not quite right. The only thing I really liked about it was the neon flyfish sign.
I appreciate Mr. Mamary’s amibition. I just wish his places didn’t look so cheaply thrown-together. In reality, it costs quite a bit to create one of his restaurants. That’s why they are the restaurant equivalent of unkempt trust fund babies who mask their wealth by wearing disheveled, dirty clothes. It’s so fake.
The dirty/dusty quality of the interior may be OK for a bar. Otherwise, the neighborhood restaurants need to step it up a bit.
As always, I offer my full, unbridled support for Mamary.
“tobacco road meets shabby chic”
LOVE the decor. I know plenty of others who like it too. Speak for yourself, guy. I’m with Motherbubba, I prefer comfortable and homey, rich with detail, unique. NYC restaurants really got too conformist with that whole minimalist/modern thing.
Uh. . . no, spnder. Since the location is the park block of Lincoln Road, maybe we’ll just call it Lincoln Park! Hope you’re right about the success part though.
Well, Franklin Park is a success, so we’ll just call it Lincoln Park and it’ll be the same thing!
Great News,,,,,Lefferts Gardens needs bars, lounges, and more bars. Calling all brave entrepreneur types, PLG NEEDS your bars, not Crown Heights( ok, maybe a little), not Prospect Heights, not Clinton Hill/Bed Stuy – they have more than their fair share. I’m hopeful for this new place, anything is a step up from the disaster that was Fly Fish but it is not the biggest space in the world – we need more.
I don’t see why the can’t have food – they had a shared kitchen with Enduro.
Oh come on heffe54, don’t ruin Brooklyn like they have Manhattan with all their slick, uncomfortable, bare, and boring interiors. You can find that in any town….I love a little honky tonk with atmosphere. Let all the “upscale” Brooklyn neighborhoods have that crap, as long as the food and service is good who cares.