Tuesday, September 11, 2012

What's coming to 201 First Ave.

Sa Aming Nayon, the Filipino restaurant that opened here on First Avenue between 12th Street and 13th Street in June 2011, closed less than a year later this past spring...

Workers have been tooling around the space... several readers recently asked what was coming here... Time Out provided the answer several weeks ago. The place will be called Jeepney, from the people behind Maharlika down First Avenue at Seventh Street.

Per Time Out:

The young guns behind behind ... Maharlika will put a Pinoy twist on the gastropub this fall. To eat, find Southeast Asian-inflected plates, including a meat loaf with ground chorizo, duck-egg yolks and an heirloom-tomato gravy. Styled after the ubiquitous colorfully decorated WWII jeeps in the old country, called “jeepneys,” the 70-seat spot will be kitted out with hand-painted signs.

4 comments:

nygrump said...

we really dug Sa Aming Nayon.

blue glass said...

yum
those hand painted signs are the best

Anonymous said...

My wife and really like Sa Aming Nayon as well. I think Willie was the owner, who was really great. Too bad, but at least another Filipino restaurant is taking its place.

BabyDave said...

Isn't "heirloom-tomato gravy" a little on the artisinal side to gain approval here?