We've written before about our fondness for The Blarney Stone on Fulton Street near Nassau in the Financial District ... a fine place for some beers and affordable quality food from the steam table by the front door. And they open at 8 a.m. A good crowd. Office workers. Construction workers. Horse players. A few people working on a scheme.
[Photo by IrishNYC via Flickr]The place closed for good in March 2010.
Now, a reader sends along the following item from UrbanDaddy with news of what this space is becoming...
Welcome to The Fulton, a 4,300-square-foot gastropub where the menu looks like it’s from a steakhouse and the flat-screens are invisible (except when they’re not), opening Saturday in FiDi.
This place feels like a long-lost executive’s lounge from the 1920s. There are diamond-tufted leather banquettes everywhere. Herringbone wood walls. Hanger steak frites. Old framed photos of Fulton Street (circa horse-and-buggy era). And a slew of cracking antique mirrors... that happen to conceal 35 state-of-the-art invisible plasmas.
So when a game isn’t on, and the TVs are off, every set will be hidden behind two-way glass. Perfect for when you want to quietly sip on a Ginger Inn (that’s vodka with guava, lime, raspberry and ginger) while splitting short ribs and cheddar grits with that comely market analyst.
Like the sound of the "old framed photos of Fulton Street." A little history for the lifeless.
UGH, every single Urban Daddy writer is the hackiest hack that ever put his stubby fingers to keyboard.
ReplyDelete"the menu looks like it’s from a steakhouse"
You mean it's a steakhouse menu?
"while splitting short ribs and cheddar grits with that comely market analyst"
Bitch please, it's just going to be you and your bloated cokehead pals harassing the female bartender.
Oh Mary, Are you annoyed because EV Grieve panned your new restaurant?
ReplyDeletePoor baby.
very sad. i remember going there with my mom on st pattys day for corned beef.
ReplyDeletememories becoming all we have left in NYC these days....
That was the best Blarney Stone, I didn't know it closed. "FiDi?" Yeesh.
ReplyDeleteAnon 9:30, who are you talking to? Sorry, but I don't understand your comment at all.
ReplyDeleteI used to live down there and that bar was full of character. I miss it along with Carmine's Italian Seafood by the seaport http://bit.ly/oaClXp. And Ryan's on Gold Street as well.
ReplyDeleteIts the same guys that own the ainsworth on 26th st.
ReplyDeleteTrue story.
ReplyDeleteI ducked in here once to take a stress dump after a job interview.
Bought a beer on my way out to be polite and had the oddest/weirdest/yet-not-altogether-unpleasant time sitting by myself and getting stared at by regulars.
isn't there still one steam table blarney stone left in midtown east? I know tastes have changed but I miss being able to suck downe some schaffers with a shot of rye and when that burning in your empty stomach got to be too much you could grab a legit filling dinner, corned beef and cabbage that was just good enough...sigh...I miss it.....
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