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Clinton Hill wine merchant Olivino is getting close to opening a wine bar at 899 Fulton Street, two doors down from its original location. (There’s a second location in Bed Stuy.) According to founder Katrine Pollari, the bar will serve beer, olives and charcuterie in addition to a purposefully affordable list of by-the-glass wines. Barring unforeseen delays, the Olivino wine bar, which Pollari hopes will be a real neighborhood gathering place, could be open within the next four or five weeks. Man, does Fulton need this!


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  1. Bar Olivino is open!!!

    June 16, 2008. 9: 15 pm. I was taking a stroll over to Olivino to grab a bottle of white for a late dinner and noticed Bar Olivino was opened with bartender and several patrons.

    Bar Olivino is open!!!

  2. This is great news for this side of Fulton and for all of us who live nearby. The second floor of basically this entire block seems empty, does anyone know whats possibly comeing in the future? A bookstore would be great, even a Barnes and Noble. Once 525collection gets completed with its 30-33 luxury condos this part of Fulton will be jumping. Thanks Katrine for doing your part to improve the area.

  3. Myrtle has also a very active BID (Business Improvements District) which provides financing of some sort for new stores (money for awnings, grants for interiors, etc.). Also look at their beautiful website, with links to online menus, etc.). A year or so ago there was some talk (and a first meeting) of a newly formed Fulton BID. Anybody knows what happened with it? Even only a website with addresses of existing stores, see the Lewis Avenue one, would be of help. On another issue, why has Olivino website been out of work for a while now?

  4. Myrtle has the benefit of having Pratt push a lot of the changes. There is no similar institutional presence on Fulton – altho one would think Pratt might want to focus on Fulton as well.

  5. Fulton has been developing pretty quickly down in the Clinton area. I noticed that Boca Soul was renovating their space, and Capital One is opening there too (we’ll take anything as long as it’s not another defunct store front).

    Some Park Slope realtor troll please make a hilarious comment about how the bank is going to be robbed because it’s in Clinton Hill now.

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