Streetlevel: Olive Garden Coming to Lower Slope
With new Boymelgreen buildings spreading like the clap, it’s hard to say that the arrival of an Olive Garden will make Fourth Avenue less classy but it certainly ain’t gonna help. You can take some solace in the fact that the future tenancy of the Italian food chain at Isaac Katan’s new development at 500…
With new Boymelgreen buildings spreading like the clap, it’s hard to say that the arrival of an Olive Garden will make Fourth Avenue less classy but it certainly ain’t gonna help. You can take some solace in the fact that the future tenancy of the Italian food chain at Isaac Katan’s new development at 500 4th Avenue is still classified as a rumor by blogger Five of Toast.
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Ugh, the snobbery on this site is sickening! Hel-lo…has anyone thought of this?? As Brooklyn becomes more of a tourist destination (Park Slope being high on the list), chain restaurants will be a familiar, welcoming spot to people whom eat this type of food at home. It’s not necessarily for the folks buying up the luxury condos. God Forbid they should be caught dead in an Olive Garden!
The thing that doesnt make sense is that they are building an upscale condo building (at least thats what the renderings look like). Now if you are going to plunk down a 1/2 to 1 million would you want Olive Garden or for that matter any large restaurant below you?
Let’s drop the snobbery… lots of young
families love these sorts of restaurants
as they’re kid-friendly and affordable, much like Mama Leone’s from years back.
There are worst things that could land in that spot, the valid point is, as
moodyjive points out, where will folks park?
Forgot to add it will be perfect for the folks at Hotel Le Bleu when they want to take the elevator down to 4th Ave and slum it a bit.
Maybe it’ll turn out to be a bank, like the Applebee’s rumor (thank God).
This just in:
Moon to open gratuitous chain restaurant.
What, no Red Lobster?
Well, at least I can use my coupons from the paper 😉
FYI, the clap Mr. B is speaking of is probably will be caught from the toilet seats in the rumored restaurant.
And, it is a Katan, Mr. B.
olive garden is where poor people go to eat rich peoples food
C’mon, let’s be honest. There are many places to get great authentic Italian in NYC. There are also many *more* places to get mediocre red-sauce crap that’s no better than OG.
I wouldn’t eat at OG, but it succeeds by making mediocrity consistent and cheap. You get what you pay for. But better that than getting less than what you paid for.