Wednesday, January 28, 2009

This week's sign of the apocalypse


Daniel Boulud's new beer and burger joint opening on the Bowery is tentatively titled DBGB. (New York Post, via Grub Street)

Updated: For further reading:

Boulud on Bowery #03: DBGB Shall Be the New CBGB (Eater)
It's Official: Nothing is Sacred! (Flaming Pablum)

[CBGB photo via UrbanImage]

7 comments:

  1. that is the worst name for a restaurant ever. and a slap in the face to cb's.

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  2. They'll likely be an outcry over this...then Daniel will say he wasn't serious, just kidding, etc....and call the place something else. He's just floating the ol' trial balloon. If I'm wrong, well...What you said!

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  3. Here's the part where I get all "Oh, me too me too!"

    http://vassifer.blogs.com/alexinnyc/2007/07/its-official-no.html

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  4. Good lord...how did I ever miss this whopper?

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  5. i thought this was the old plan and they'd scrapped it because it was so utterly tasteless

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  6. According to the Post, it's on!

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