Thursday, March 3, 2016

Krystal's Cafe 81 has closed for good on East 7th Street

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Krystal's Cafe 81 on East Seventh Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue has closed for good. Sunday was its last day in business, according to this website for "New York Ethnic Food Lovers."

There isn't any mention of a closure on the Cafe 81 Facebook page. The Cafe 81 phone rings once before the line goes dead.

Most recently Cafe 81 had been a Filipino restaurant and bar... Until Jan. 1, 2005, the address was home to Verchovyna Tavern aka George's Bar aka Bar 81.

H/T EVG reader Charlie Chen

Previously on EV Grieve:
At Cafe 81, you'd better be quiet or someone will throw a shamwow at you

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

A little sad for me - two of my first meals when I moved to the EV were at Café 81.

Best of luck to all involved.

Anonymous said...

It was more of a bar than a Filipino restaurant or a restaurant.

Anonymous said...

I am going to need therapy for this one....

Peter Feld said...

Bring back Verchovyna!

xOMars said...

Sad day. This was one of the more "like mom's cooking" of the East Village Filipino restaurants.

Anonymous said...

They've been shamwowed.

Anonymous said...

Ate there unfortunately they never really took off in a major way except with predominantly Filipinos. Not enough business to keep it going.