The signs are up for the incoming tenant at 135 First Ave. — Dan and John's Wings…
Apparently the wings have been popular at Smorgasburg, the outdoor food festival on weekends in Williamsburg.
As for the proprietors, here's what their website has to say:
When two friends from Buffalo found themselves in Brooklyn without authentic Buffalo wings, they decided to make their own. Using recipes they learned working in Buffalo bars and pizzerias, Dan and John bring Buffalo's legendary flavor to Brooklyn, New York.
This will be their first storefront, in the space that previously housed JoeDough. This marks the second Smorgasburg vendor to set up shop on First Avenue. Schnitz opened in March 2014 at 177 First Ave. and East 11th Street.
H/T EVG reader Steven!
I'm so elated.
ReplyDeleteGreat, another Brooklyn Piggies. Serious question, do all these micro-restauranteurs and their lemmings, I mean followers, I mean fans, live on a diet of meat and bourbon? Welp, at least they'll die sooner. I mean good luck WIng-Dings!!!
ReplyDeleteGood plan. Dan 'n John + Atomic wings one block away means they will probably both be out of business in about a year.
ReplyDeleteNotice, all new EV places have to be a XX & xx, always two names.
ReplyDeleteOoh-ooh-ooh! Now shuffle back to Buffalo.
*I support small business only when I approve of what they sell.*
ReplyDeleteEvery EVGrieve poster.
Well maybe if these "small businesses" would stop selling silly concept food we wouldn't bitch so much, Kurt
ReplyDeleteExactly Kurt!
ReplyDeleteIn order to conform to the 2015 Official EV Cool Naming Standards, from now on the following EV landmarks and institutions will be known by the following names:
ReplyDeleteTrader & Joes
Whole & Foods
EV & Grieve
Gem & Spa
Mahmouns & Felafel
B&H & Dairy
St. Marks & Place
The 13th & Step
Hot & Kitchen
Tompkins Square & Park
Astor & Place
Santa & Con
NY&U
Buffalo wings are "silly concept foods?" Yes, about as much as tacos are "silly concept foods" or hummus is a "silly concept food." White faux-progressives are the worst.
ReplyDeleteAnd a little place called Blue & Gold laughs at your naming conventions.
Maybe I should have said "silly concept restaurants." Meaning they sell one thing, like pigs in a blanket, or wings, or roast beef, or mac n' cheese. Silly foods for ex-suburban dipshits.
ReplyDeleteMost taco places sell more than tacos, but even if they didn't, they're typically not silly because they didn't start out at twee flea markets. Talk about white faux-progressives.
I'll call anything I want "silly" and you are certainly free to disagree, but take your demographic guessing nonsense to Breitbart or whatever, you don't know me.
I'll take a small independently owned specialty store over a CVS or chain store!
ReplyDeleteyes because CVS or another chain store is just dying to move into retail space the size of a broom closet
ReplyDeleteAtomic Wings' prices have gone through the roof. Who wants to pay $30 for 20 wings and a small fries?
ReplyDeleteIf these guys provide an equally good product at a lower price, then what's not to like? Sometimes the negativity toward newcomers is too much.
I'd just like to point out that for a solid two decades before the current hypergentrification,economically privileged youth were opening fashion boutiques, not restaurants, on E.V. streets and there wasn't nearly this level of backlash.
"Atomic Wings' prices have gone through the roof. Who wants to pay $30 for 20 wings and a small fries?"
ReplyDeleteSpot-on, anon 850. These wing places that now charge a buck (or more) per wing claim that chicken prices forced the increase. If chicken prices are so high, how come I can go to Costco and get a bag of 55 identical, even bigger wings than Atomic sells for $11.99? Wings are not expensive. They're just marked up tremendously to cover the exorbitant overhead costs in this area.
If this new place can give me 10 decent wings and a small order of fries for around $10-11, I'm in. Currently that would cost you almost $20 at Atomic. Simply not worth it for me. I haven't been there in over two years.
Are you really this dumb? You cannot get high-quality chicken carcasses for $5.99 a bag. Have the billion documentaries in the past five years about the poultry business somehow escaped you, or do you just not care because bro, you need your wings for under $10, bro? You people give me the creeps
ReplyDeleteWow, this forum is full of tasteful, totally non-suburban, gritty New York artists who take breaks between penning their Great American Tweets to crap on stuff they haven't even tried.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure that Mom & Pop neighborhood market with reasonable prices will be opening any day now, to appease the connoisseurs of cool.
"Are you really this dumb? You cannot get high-quality chicken carcasses for $5.99 a bag."
ReplyDeleteI guess I am dumb, "bro." So "dumb" that I regularly ask when ordering wings what brand they are. Invariably the response is "Perdue" or "Tyson." I tend to not believe this, since places like Atomic that you love so much serve 10 "wings", fries and a drink for around $20. I say "wings" because they are usually loaded with gristle. So, how come I can get wings that are "Perdue" or "Tyson" for $12/55 at Costco, when the restaurant claims to be using an identical product?
"Have the billion documentaries in the past five years about the poultry business somehow escaped you, or do you just not care because bro, you need your wings for under $10, bro?"
Name one of these documentaries that you've personally watched from start to finish, Brian Griffin. Clicking "like" on Facebook doesn't count. Sorry, "bro," not all of us have access to Mama and Papa Bear's Amex card number. We can't all afford to spend $20 on fourteen bites of gristle-y meat when we can have the same experience elsewhere for a lot cheaper. Not all of us Seamless every meal.
You mad, "bro"?
Waah waaaaah, wings! Lmao, How can so many people whine about wings from guys from Buffalo and it hasn't even opened yet?!!! Would you rather see a small bank vestibule, mickey D booth or 7-11 in that space? If y'all be whining about a small, independently owned food establishment in the greatest area of NYC, just go jump in the East River and spare yourself from the misery of life you're trapped in.
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