As we first reported on June 23, Goat Town, the 4-year-old bistro at 511 E. Fifth St., was closing by July 4 to make way for a new concept.
The restaurant between Avenue A and Avenue B is now mostly empty …
There isn't any mention of the closure on Goat Town's website or Twitter and Facebook accounts, which haven't been updated since February. (There isn't any outgoing phone message either.)
A Goat Town rep told Eater that the new restaurant, called GG's, "will serve a very different menu than the current New American menu, but will still include ingredients sourced from the restaurant's back garden."
Owner Nick Morgenstern's rep said that he hopes the new place will "serve the East Village community in a broader way."
8 comments:
GG, as in GG Allin? That was my first association.
GG Allin's restaurant? The mind boggles at what could be on offer....and no particularly appetizing thoughts come to mind.
Heh.
Or maybe GG's as in Gordon Gekko! (Though would they serve lunch????)
$26 for bland Cod and $17 for a cheeseburger will never "serve the East Village community in a broader way." It's quite a stretch to call their old menu New American, but if they don't learn something about price-point, GG's ain't gonna do any better than the Goat.
I'm on that stretch of Ave A and Ave B on E5th, and they seem to have been doing fairly well, if the crowds keeping the place full, and going in and out are anything to judge by. There are definitely lull times of the week, but they have a bar so that keeps them busy.
P.S. I thought GG Allin too :-)
Goat Town had a great brunch, if for nothing else than the fact that it didn't have bottomless drinking/frat boy/woo crowd.
The food was good and it was somewhere to have a CALM weekend breakfast like a fuckin normal person without much douchery.
I wish them luck, they charged a bit too much for dinner service but were a great neighborhood spot!
I'm gutted. This place was one of the few refuges from the utter shit that has invaded the EV over the past 5 years. Guess I'll be seeing you all at Boulton & Watt (puts barrel in mouth...)
Couldn't agree more.
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