Showing posts with label Goat Town. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Goat Town. Show all posts

Friday, September 19, 2014

GG's, bringing pizza from the backyard to your table on East 5th Street


[Photo from early September via EVG reader Sal]

GG's is now in soft-open mode at 511 E. Fifth St. Goat Town owner Nick Morgenstern revamped the space here between Avenue A and Avenue B officially opens this weekend.

Eater got a sneak preview.

The menu is more relaxed than Goat Town's, with a strong emphasis on pizza, and some ingredients still coming from the backyard. Pies include the "Ev Greenery", which is topped with greens, lamb chorizo, sauce vert, grano padano, cherry tomatoes and pickled red onion. There is also a clam pie with three varieties of bivalves on it and a pie topped with morcilla and ricotta. Slices of two pies are available daily for around $4 at lunch.

Head over to Eater for shots of the interior and the menus.

Previously on EV Grieve:
[Updated] Goat Town is closing to make way for a pizzeria

The transformation of Goat Town to GG's on East 5th Street

GG's announces itself on East 5th Street

Monday, September 8, 2014

GG's announces itself on East 5th Street



The awning is up now at GG's, the new restaurant taking over the Goat Town space at 511 E. Fifth St. between Avenue A and Avenue B.

Goat Town owner Nick Morgenstern closed the bistro in early July after four years. His new chef, Bobby Hellen, "will forage the back garden for ingredients, including anise hyssop for the devout Mets fan’s 1986 Pizza, topped with spicy soppressata and fennel agrodolce," according to New York magazine.

And here's an interior shot...



As for GG's, New York noted — "its name a tribute to a neighborhood local." This former local?

Thanks to EVG reader Sal on Fifth St. for the top photo.

Previously on EV Grieve:
[Updated] Goat Town is closing to make way for a pizzeria

The transformation of Goat Town to GG's on East 5th Street

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

The transformation of Goat Town to GG's on East 5th Street



We walked by the former Goat Town space the other morning ... where the 4-year-old bistro at 511 E. Fifth St. between Avenue A and Avenue B closed in early July.

Workers have gutted the restaurant to make way for a new concept from the owners called called GG's, which "will serve a very different menu than the current New American menu, but will still include ingredients sourced from the restaurant's back garden," a rep told Eater.

As far as the new space goes, we took a look through the mostly papered windows… still appears to be in the gut renovation stage…



The address has been home to several restaurants since Le Tableau closed in December 2007. Before Goat Town, the space was home to Seymour Burton and Butcher Bay.

Previously on EV Grieve:
[Updated] Goat Town is closing to make way for a pizzeria

Monday, July 7, 2014

Goat Town has closed



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."

Monday, June 23, 2014

[Updated] Goat Town is closing to make way for a pizzeria


[Image via nycgo.com]

According to a tipster, Goat Town, the nearly 4-year-old bistro at 511 E. Fifth St., will close by July 4.

The new concept: "some kind of pizza place," per the tipster, who notes that the staff was given less than two weeks notice of the impending closure. (We understand that ownership will remain the same, with a shift in management.)

The restaurant between Avenue A and Avenue B arrived in the farm-to-table heyday, with Goat Town staffers setting out to grow herbs and vegetables in the backyard garden ... and as Eater noted in December 2010, "all pickling, preserving, and jarring" was to be done in house.

The address has been home to several restaurants since Le Tableau closed in December 2007. Before Goat Town, the space was home to Seymour Burton and Butcher Bay.

Updated 3:04 p.m.

Per Eater:

The new restaurant, called GG's, will serve pizza and other dishes that, just like the current New American menu, include ingredients sourced from the restaurant's back garden. A representative tells Eater that Morgenstern hopes the new place will "serve the East Village community in a broader way." GG's is slated to open in September.

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Flavor of the west side of San Antonio coming to East Fifth Street, at least on Mondays

From the EV Grieve inbox ... an email/release from Julie E. Farias, the executive chef at Goat Town on East Fifth Street between Avenue A and Avenue B ...

I am quite excited to let you know that I am having M&I Mexican Mondays at Goat Town.

The M&I Mexican Monday menu will begin on the 16th of January and will be served in addition to our regular menu every Monday.

It is inspired by my Aunt Irma and Uncle Martin who have owned M&I Meat Market in the west side of San Antonio for over 20 years, along with my family’s history of owning grocery stores and meat markets since the 30’s, and all the foods I grew up with as a result of that experience.

After a trip back home to Texas, I realized that I would be proud to pay respect to my heritage, family history and the neighborhood I grew up in by creating a genuine Texas Mexican menu. The items on this menu are both common and unique in that they are specifically focused on the food I grew up with in the west side of San Antonio and the Texas Hill Country.

It would be impossible to bring every single detail of this specific experience to Goat Town but I am proud to serve the best and most authentic representation of Texas Mexican food from the west side of San Antonio.

And the menu...


[Release edited for length]

Monday, June 6, 2011

Goat Town now peddling ice cream on East Fifth Street


Multiple tipsters pointed out that Goat Town now has an ice cream stand in front of their East Fifth Street restaurant... For the last month, they were one of The Madison Square Eats food stands in Madison Square Park. Friday was the last day for that.

Monday, January 17, 2011

Goat Town City Limit

Goat Town over on Fifth Street between Avenue A and Avenue B now has exterior signage...




Subtle enough. And, hey — how about the food? We haven't eaten there ourselves... a few trustworthy EV Grieve regulars have tried it... all say the food is quite good, though portion size seems to vary... and one commenter said that upon his visit, everyone eating and working at Goat Town looked like Luke Wilson's character (pre haircut) from "The Royal Tenenbaums."


Meanwhile, our friends at East Village Eats dined there on New Year's Eve. You can read that review here.

[Image via]

Monday, November 29, 2010

A tin ceiling and Vermont veal meatballs for Goat Town

The Times had an update last week on Goat Town, the new restaurant taking over the former Seymour Burton-Butcher Bay space (Le Tableau closed in December 2007) on East Fifth Street between Avenue A and Avenue B:

The restaurant will hew to the current shoestring restaurant formula of repurposed materials, including a weathered copper bar and a tin ceiling, and ingredients that are often local, perhaps even grown in the restaurant’s own garden, and pickled on the premises. The menu is fairly straightforward American, with a raw bar, and dishes like Vermont veal meatballs, seared Block Island swordfish, and braised Flying Pigs Farm pork shoulder.
Nicholas Morgenstern, late of General Greene in Fort Greene, and Joel Hough, a former chef de cuisine at Cookshop, are behind this venture.

I caught a look inside the other day...



Goat Town opens Thursday.