[Ess-A-Bagel photo from March 22]
Here's a follow-up to our previous Ess-A-Bagel/Tal Bagels post from March 30...
Ess-A-Bagel closed up their home of nearly 40 years on March 20 at First Avenue and East 21st Street.
There is now a coming soon sign up for Tal Bagels at the former home of Rose, a chicken restaurant, adjacent to Ess-A-Bagel...
... as well as in the former Ess-A-Bagel space...
There was also a Tal Bagels sign up a few storefronts to the north at 365 First Ave. ... next door to where the new Ess-A-Bagels MAY open...
[Photo from March 28]
To make this even more confusing... the Tal Bagels sign is no longer up on the plywood.
Thankfully the Town & Village Blog has it all sorted out for us from a post on Friday...
Tal Bagels, which has three other locations in NYC, will be opening in part of the old Ess-A-Bagel space (along with 350 square feet for a Bank of America branch).
And what about No. 365? To Town & Village:
Tal will be opening a shop/restaurant for smoked fish, similar in style to downtown institution Russ & Daughters. That business will go into the space at the former Beehives & Buzzcuts at 365 First Avenue, which has about 2,000 square feet... It may not be called Tal and there is not yet a planned opening date.
“It’ll be fish and salads, European smoked fish like herring,” said [Tal partner Mohammed] Kamal. He explained that in just the bagel shop space, there wouldn’t have been enough room for bagels as well as “the full line” of fish.
No word yet on a new home for Ess-A-Bagel.
Previously on EV Grieve:
[Updated] Report: Landlord forcing Ess-a-Bagel from its longtime home (46 comments)
1 week left for Ess-A-Bagel at its current 1st Avenue location
[Updated] Ess-A-Bagel has closed for now on 1st Avenue
Tal Bagels opening soon next to possible new home of Ess-A-Bagel
Getting a feeling Tal won't be making bagels onsite, which doesn't say great things about freshness.
ReplyDeleteTotal mis-read of the neighborhood demo. Ess-a did a great business with the best product. How Tal thinks that they're going to make it selling $40+ a pound lox is beyond me. People go to Russ or Barney Greengrass, or Sturgeon because of their decades long rep.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't go to TAL for overpriced fish of untested provenance. Hope the landlord (Moelis) gets totally screwed on this deal, he deserves it.
Hey, Ess-A Bagel! Try Ave C!!! with soup.
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