[Photo via Ray LeMoine]
After three years of life below Billy Hurricane's and later Station B, Idle Hands — the "Bourbon, Beer & Rock" bar — is taking over the entire space at 25 Avenue B. (East Village Eats first caught wind of this impending change this past Friday.)
The official grand reopening is this coming Wednesday, per the Idle Hands website.
Billy Hurricane's quietly became Station B back in June.
And a lot of people pretty much hated Billy Hurricane's, like Robert Siestema, who wrote this about the place for The Village Voice in May 2011:
You look up at the street sign and realize you're in the hippest nabe in the world, the old E.V. And it dawns on you that soon the entire length of Avenue B will be lined with shit holes like this, crass dining and drinking establishments that might have been invented by Guy Fieri. Yes, now we're in the Fieri-verse, a realm of ostentatious overconsumption so abject, that nori rolls may come wrapped in bacon so as not to frighten the regulars with seaweed.
Meanwhile, East Village Eats is optimistic about this Idle Hands takeover. "Honestly, I think this is a good thing for the neighborhood," he wrote.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Whatever happened to simple bar names...concepts?
Billy Hurricane's looking to hire attractive, sexy, fun, loud and pushy female bartenders who are still in school — and rock
3 comments:
Good quote from Siestema.
It's really not a good quote from Siestema. It shows an ignorance of Japanese cuisine (not that Billy Hurricane's cuisine was authentic or even edible). Walk into an izakaya in Meguro ward and he may be surprised at the liberal use of bacon, as well as lack of pretense.
And in the larger story, he's too lazy to do a tad bit of research on some of the people's names he drops as an indictment of that shithole.
I'd like to hear what his time frame of when the "hippest nabe in the world" began and ceased to be so.
This is good news for non dooshes.
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