Streetlevel: New Gastropub for South Slope
Thistle Hill Tavern just opened on 7th Avenue and 15th Street and it’s already getting a steady stream of customers. Sarah DiGregorio for Fork in the Road writes, “Thistle Hill is a collaboration between David Massoni (formerly of ‘inoteca), John Bush (Niagara Bar), chef Rebecca Weitzman (also formerly of ‘inoteca) and Mike ‘Fat Mike’ Burkett…
Thistle Hill Tavern just opened on 7th Avenue and 15th Street and it’s already getting a steady stream of customers. Sarah DiGregorio for Fork in the Road writes, “Thistle Hill is a collaboration between David Massoni (formerly of ‘inoteca), John Bush (Niagara Bar), chef Rebecca Weitzman (also formerly of ‘inoteca) and Mike ‘Fat Mike’ Burkett of NOFX, the punk band from California. It’s a very comfortable, congenial place, and is surprisingly polished–from service to food–for a place that’s only been open for a few days. ”
Grub Street says that the burger “is made from house-ground grass-fed beef,” and the menu also includes “mussels with hot cherry peppers in Brooklyn Brewery Pennant Ale, milk-braised pork belly with fava beans and pickled ramps, and the aptly named ‘Breakfast,’ a morning-food medley of housemade sausage, pancake, egg, and peppered maple syrup. ” Has anybody checked this place out yet? GMAP
Maybe diners and potential patrons will be interested in how respectful owner Mike ‘Fat Mike’ Burkett of NOFX is of his other audience. this is not for the weak of stomach.
http://austinist.com/2010/03/29/cokie_the_clown_banned_from_emos_af.php
ProfRobert — The sad thing is the dwindling amount of restaurants and *bars* that the kid owners have taken over. There are very few toddler-free options left.
figures.
“Gastropub” sounds way too much like “gastropod,” which is the name for things like snails and slugs; it means “stomach-foot,” in reference to the creatures’ only notable features (i.e. they are nothing but a foot containing a stomach, unless you count the little retractable horns). If a gastropub were to have snails on the menu, the possibilities for creative menu wordplay boggle the mind.
“anyone want to open an environmentally friendly cigarette club? ”
There’s one a coupla blocks down… ‘hookahs available’.
Yeah, what exactly is a gastropub? A hoity-toity bar with slightly superior food is what I’m getting. Right?
They should get more high chairs, but put them in storage at 7 p.m. on the dot.
Rob, as you correctly recognize initially, it’s a market-driven consideration. The place was doing a thriving dinner business at 5-6 p.m. on a Sunday (the place opens for dinner at 5 p.m., BTW, so it’s not like there’s an afternoon crowd boozing there). I’m willing to bet that come, say, 8 p.m., there were no toddlers or infants present. I would hope that would be true of Chuck E. Cheese’s, too. So if you wait past toddler bedtime, I’m sure you can find any number of “baby-free” watering holes, diners, gastropubs and formal restaurants. If your complaint is that you have no place in South Park Slope to get your drink on during a late Sunday afternoon, well, A) that kinda speaks for itself, and B) try Fifth Amendment or Timboos.
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they would do well to invest in additional high chairs
it’s a PUB, not chuck e. cheese!!!! granted i guess given the chosen neighborhood, businesses probably would make more money being kid / baby friendly, but there is a fine line with that because there still has to be places that people can go that are baby free. i know that they sell sound proof baby boxes (like those dog and cat luggage containers) except they are sound proof (supposedly) and have air holes for the baby.
*rob*
The storefront itself reminds me of Fanelli’s back in the day (yes, Fanelli’s in Manhattan). As far as Fairway being the only/best place to get X: it’s because oldtimers figured time into their day for the ritual of walking or driving place to place for their favorite bakery, cheese, butcher, etc., and leisurely conversations with the owners. In addition, the rise in rents have brought the demise of many mom-and-pops. When it comes to one-stop shopping, Eagle Provisions served this purpose long before Fairway came on the scene. As the demand for one-stop shopping rises, many “best” stores lose ground except in terms of nostalgia. Thank goodness that despite this Brooklyn is and always will remain filled with neighborhoods where fresh ethnic and specialty foods are abundant and supreme.