Smorgasburg vendors Brooklyn Piggies, which only peddles hand-rolled pigs in a blanket, opened its first permanent (brick-and-mortar?) storefront yesterday ... at 195 Avenue A near East 12th Street. (Someone at Oprah likes them.)
Their hours:
Tue - Wed: 11 am to 11 pm
Thu - Sat: 11 am to 4 am (They have a late-night to-go window)
Sun: 11 am to 9 pm
Per the Times:
The company makes about 10,000 pigs a week to sell online and frozen, and for Madison Square Garden’s skyboxes. They are available in original, spicy or chicken. Coming soon: a vegetarian style and potato puffs: about $20 for a box of 14.
Biscuits on one side of Avenue A ... and pigs in a blanket on the other. Who will win this single-food late-night throwdown?
I am hoping against hope that this is a parody.
ReplyDeleteAnother business opens with the clear intention of catering to the drunken, late night crowd, which means even less sleep for me and everyone else who lives on this block or near it.
ReplyDeleteBiscuits versus Piggies is a close call. The winner will be the one that's artisanalier.
ReplyDeleteThe infantilization of food continues. Yay!
ReplyDelete"Coming soon: vegetarian style"
ReplyDeleteMost vegetarians would never eat at a place faux-adorably called "Piggies," so don't bother on our account. Don't be like the biscuit boys with their half-assed attempt to be vegetarian-inclusive alongside their foie gras butter.
Biscuits or an oversized hor d'oeuvres... No thanks, I'm going to go to Muzzarela and eat a slice of pizza because despite the years I still have a sense of dignity and self-respect.
ReplyDeleteWell aren't you special...
DeleteThis looks like it could be a doughy fight to the death.
ReplyDelete...another place I can't wait to not go to.
ReplyDeletenearly $2 for a single pig in a blanket?
ReplyDeletei'm in the wrong business.
Biscuit butchers or Blanket butchers? Decisions, decisions..
ReplyDelete"peddles hand-rolled pigs in a blanket"
ReplyDeleteIs that the new name for a hotdog stand? ugh.
I LOVE pigs in a blanket. It's soooo easy to make your own…… They have all the ingredients at the Key Food or the Met.
ReplyDelete^^^ what Dr. Scientist said lol
ReplyDeleteSo long as they are from Brooklyn that's all that matters!
ReplyDeleteNot sure I understand their "need" for a store front, but I've purchased their products online and currently have a couple packages in the freezer. They are yummy pigs in a blanket. But again - the brick and mortar makes no sense to me. Pigs in a blanket are a cocktail party treat. Unless you're Cher from Mermaids then you don't need them but once in a while.
ReplyDeleteI am surprised there is a food business in that space. I guess they must run vents out the back, right?
ReplyDeleteBrooklyn is the new "extreme" in marketing. Extreme Doritos! Brooklyn Piggies! STFU already with Brooklyn.
ReplyDeleteto all the people whinging about all the drunken bar people...i lived in the area in my 20's and 30's, why? because it was fun ( all the bars) now that i'm old and don't want that any more, i've moved to more adult neighborhood. sure the new people are douchier and there are ALOT more of them. but still, move on and stop sounding like the crotchety old fart you've turned into. steps down from soap box.
ReplyDeletedont be ridiculous. this is a battle that clearly must be judged and won on facial hair
ReplyDeleteAh yes, part of the Smorgasburg empire:
ReplyDelete"The flea market in Fort Greene certainly wasn’t Brooklyn’s first. It was, however, the first intended for a certain type of shopper. For months before the opening, Butler and Demby courted potential vendors. From the start, they wanted to ensure that the Flea was, by their own standards, tasteful. “Stuff you’d put in your house,” Demby says. Butler adds, “No street fair crap like tube socks.” They accepted and rejected vendors based on gut instinct. “It’s kind of like pornography,” Butler says. “You know it when you see it.”"
From an interesting article on the Butler/Denby team in Brooklynr:
http://bklynr.com/lords-of-the-flea/
Good for Anonymous 8:48 that he or she could afford to move to another neighborhood. Not everyone has that luxury nor should they have to be forced out of the community they love. I also lived in here in 20s and 30s, and I went out, too, but I came home and slept every night because the neighborhood was more in balance, and there weren't 10,000 bars at the time, and we also didn't have fratty types around back then, traveling in packs and screaming all night like they're still on campus.
ReplyDeleteA more adult neighborhood? What the hell is that?
ReplyDeleteMissy and Stacy want everybody to know that their cocktail franks are parallel to none and are not meant for your stupid Super Bowl party or Bar Mitzvah so don't even think about it. But do get back to them when you host your next glamorous gala and/or unforgettable benefit party.
ReplyDeleteThe important thing is that this demonstrates that 7-Eleven is not driving out small businesses.
ReplyDeletePig Gulps!
ReplyDelete7-Eleven shuttered these two businesses after opening right next door. Give the cancer time to kill.
ReplyDeleteYeah I'd LOVE to move but don't have the $. Esp. after TWO parties on our hallway last night -- the douchery went on til 5 a.m.
ReplyDelete@ 7:35 AM
ReplyDeleteyes what is up with bar hopping in packs? I don't think it due to a snowball effect of adding a couple of people with each stop as the night progresses but a coordinated effort to roam in a large group made possible via anti-social media.
Everyone is forgetting the first entry in the neighborhood of middle America's idea of comfort food, S'Mac. When moms started going to work in the 70' & 80's kids got to enjoy dinners which took a 5 minute spin inside the microwave or were reconstituted from a blue and gold box. Next time you go by S'Mac notice the age of its customers which I suspect will mostly identify with hot dogs in dough as cuisine.
ReplyDelete"I get really excited when I see a new Subway, Duane Reade and 7-Eleven" said no one.
ReplyDeleteThough I don't understand the biscuit storefront, I did try the little piggies today and I have to say that I've never had better. They were delicious and their homemade condiments divine. Would you rather have another Duane Reade, or bank, or 7-11? This is a much better alternative. I spend so much money to live in an apt. that isn't even kept up that nicely, at least I know when I spend my money for piggies in the blanket, I'm going to eat something that's delicious.
ReplyDeletelets face it, the neighborhood is not what it was. when i visit all the old places are gone. i didn't want to move, but i knew it was either that or be driven crazy by the changes (not good) i saw. you have more control over your life than you may think. make the change.
ReplyDeletebut do the piggies have customers who would eat their piggies of the floor, and cry when they are closed, and have security guard to control the line that comprises of mostly their friends and family, and do they have rave reviews from Yelp and write-ups from that Gotham blog, Eater, NY Post, and Wall Street Journal? Do the piggies have ladies, beards, grin and most important hubris? i'll chalk this one up over to the boys of biscuits.
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