Diners!!
Hi Everyone, wanted to gauge your thoughts on the need of a good diner! My husband and I really want to open a food establishment but with more of a soul/southern style experience. We were thinking Red Hook as the only diner I know is Hope & Anchor and that gets mixed reviews. We live…
Hi Everyone,
wanted to gauge your thoughts on the need of a good diner! My husband and I really want to open a food establishment but with more of a soul/southern style experience. We were thinking Red Hook as the only diner I know is Hope & Anchor and that gets mixed reviews. We live in Park Slope and the now that “The Usual” is gone and Grand Canyon is just “ok” – do you think a diner is a good fit
There’s a diner on 86th St. in Dyker Heights or Bensonhurst with those little jukeboxes. Terrible food but jukeboxes are great.
You should look into Fulton Street in Clinton Hill – good deals on commercial space and the demand is there. Just got a new bakery etc…
oh wow i totally used to remember mini jukeboxes on each table in diners!
*Rob*
Vince – I have been going to El Gran Castillo for YEARS – love love their food until I saw the big orange Health violation signs a few months back
I want a place where it’s comfortable enough for workers, families, students to run in,grab a quick bite or lounge around. I really loved the “Usual” on Vanderbilt and thought they had solid food plus they loved their customers and you saw all colors and creeds there which made it more attractive. I just feel the nabe is getting a bit “snobby” about their food establishments and I think returning to the basics could serve us all a little better.
ok then… – will have to start my research
Southern breakfasts sound great! Does anybody remember Ms. Ann’s Country Kitchen in Ft. Greene? If Ms. Ann felt like cooking she’d open up. I loved the salmon omelet and
cheese grits and biscuits. It was such a tiny, homey little place…
Gemini, I’d try for somewhere with a larger population and more foot traffic than Red Hook.
gemini10: Good, affordable worker food already exists in Park Slope, except it’s found in places that many white collar folks walk past, for example, El Viejo Yayo (one on 9th St., another on 5th Ave.), El Gran Castillo de Jagua (on Flatbush), and other similar smaller places spread throughout. That aside, I think you have a wonderful idea and I wish you much success.
Please come to Cobble Hill. Miriam (Court at Baltic) just closed (it was terrible, no really, it was bad), and they used to be a sucessful diner type place (Hill Diner), and they decided for some insane reason to reinvent themsleves and it failed. Ok, it took a couple years, but it did fail.
That spot needs a good brunch/diner/burger joint.
how about individual jukeboxes at each table
and 20% off for Brownstoner posters first month?!?!?!
aww man am thinking of giving notice to my boss right now – I work in the record biz and am OVER IT!
yes, please! make it old school! lots of neon and a jukebox!
*Rob*