Showing posts with label Tut. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tut. Show all posts

Thursday, November 17, 2016

Report: CB3 douses plans for hookah bar Fire and Ice on 3rd Street


[Photo from August]

The revolving doors of bars-restaurants at 189 E. Third St. between Avenue A and Avenue B was about to get another go-round.

Since May 2014, the address has been home to Lumiere, Casablanca and Tut, which closed in February after just a few months in business.

Applicant Amar Patel, who managed Lumiere and Casablanca (and his mother managed Tut), appeared before CB3's SLA committee on Monday night to pitch a hookah bar-cafe called Fire and Ice. Patel was proposing daily hours of 3 p.m. to 4 a.m. (See their application here.)

Neighbors and CB3 weren't really into it.

Per DNAinfo:

"When I come home at 2 in the morning, the last thing I want to do is deal with another loud-ass bar that I have to try to sleep above," said building resident Michelle Brilliant, who works late hours at a restaurant.

"We just don't want to have to deal with it again," she continued. "It literally is a nightmare."

And!

District Manger Susan Stetzer said the board had spoken to police about the bar, and that 9th Precinct officers considered the spot a "serious problem."

"The history of this place is among the worst that we've had," Stetzer said.

Patel tried to assure community and board members that his restaurant would in fact be "calming," centered around tea and conversation rather than dancing and liquor.

The committee subsequently issued a denial for Fire and Ice, arguably the least calming name in CB3 applicant history.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Restaurant space that has been a lot of things lately ready to be something else

Monday, February 1, 2016

The Marshal seizes Tut on East 3rd Street



The landlord has taken legal possession of the hookah bar-restaurant Tut at 189 E. Third St. between Avenue A and Avenue B.

There isn't any information available about the closure at the moment. As always in these cases, this doesn't necessarily mean the end for the restaurant.

Since May 2014, the address has been home to Lumiere, Casablanca and now Tut.

The proprietors are on CB3's SLA docket for a license renewal under the "renewal with complaint" category.

H/T @salim

Tuesday, September 1, 2015

New name, but the doors remain the same at 189 E. 3rd St.



The bar-restaurant space at 189 E. Third St. between Avenue A and Avenue B has been a carousel of late… there was the short-lived Lumiere that debuted in May 2014, followed by Casablanca, which just opened in February.

We're not sure when Casablanca closed… but a new sign is up for a restaurant-lounge called Tut …



Unfortunately, we don't know anything about Tut… the only other sign here features variations of coming soon written in multiple languages…