StreetLevel: Old Brooklyn Parlor a Thing of the Past
Old Brooklyn Parlor, the ye olde-style coffee/ice cream shop on Vanderbilt Ave, closed last week. The business opened only a couple years ago. Word on the street is that the storefront will be converted into a second branch of Clinton Hill Design Build, which has another office further up the avenue. GMAP
Old Brooklyn Parlor, the ye olde-style coffee/ice cream shop on Vanderbilt Ave, closed last week. The business opened only a couple years ago. Word on the street is that the storefront will be converted into a second branch of Clinton Hill Design Build, which has another office further up the avenue. GMAP
Rob: Dunno if you’re being facetious, but the Tom’s that Suzanne Vega sang about is @ 110th and Broadway in Manhattan (she went to Barnard). It’s the same corner diner that is used as the exterior of the “Seinfeld” diner.
Re the oldey tymey parlor: I’m not sorry to see this place go (nothing like waiting 15min for an ice coffee with french music blaring when you have a throbbing-head hangover), but I’m bummed that it is not going to be another eating/drinking type place. The nabe still has a serious dearth of decent ones.
Tom’s in consistently underwhelming. I’ll go to my grave laughing the the bozos who line up there every weekend. Talk about the emperor’s clothes…
get in before the line. good deal for a quick in and out.
i disagree that toms is like every other diner. i have yet (20 years) to take someone there where they dont love the place. it is a much more pleasant atmosphere than any slope diner i have been to. and food is much more consistantly cooked than almost any diner in the slope. believe me, i have been to them all. try getting a consistant waffle at any local diner.
jury still out on the new guy though.
I don’t know anything about Suzanne Vega. I just know it’s pretty funny to see folks lining up n Saturday morning to get into Tom’s. It’s OK, but to me quite undistinguished in a city with hundreds of other similar places.
after i got an iced coffee there in a paper cup with a helping of attitude a year or so ago, i haven’t been back.
Probably the worst burger I’ve had in a very long time.
Probably the worst burger I’ve had in a very long time.
that’s the place where suzanne vega goes right?
*rob*
Tom’s Restaurant is overrated.