Multiple tipsters have told us that the closed-for-now Dahlia's on Second Avenue and Fifth Street will return as a quick-serve restaurant specializing in salads.
Here's how one tipster put it: "It's going to be a salad bar! Saw them bringing in the sneeze guards. Per a super on the block it's definitely a salad bar and no liquor license."
The Mexican restaurant temporarily closed in early May while the State Liquor Authority decides their future booze fate. Back in February, the SLA temporarily suspended Dahlia's liquor license after serving a reported 50 minors one night. Dahlia's stayed open without alcohol after this, though business appeared quite slow.
The State Liquor Authority website shows that the license, set to expire Nov. 30, 2017, is currently inactive.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Report: Dahlia's busted after cops find 43 minors drinking inside locked restaurant
More about the underage drinking bust at Dahlia's; plus, reaction from NYU students
Any type of buffet style setup requires sneeze guards, so maybe it's not a salad bar? Especially since salad bars fell out of favor to "tossed to order" about 15 years ago. It could be anything, although the super probably has the intel (heh ... kale intel). Welp, in any case, up with sneeze guards, down with teenage starter alcoholism
ReplyDeleteI'm still hoping for a Just Lettuce franchise, with the bottomless Boston Leaf brunch special.
ReplyDeleteWe're drinking salad now?
ReplyDeleteWhy go there when you could go to Chop'd? Ha ha kidding. Lettuce has no nutritional value anyway.
ReplyDeleteI was hoping for a good old-fashioned Cantonese Chinese restaurant (like the old Bamboo Village) that would serve family favorites like Egg Foo Young.
ReplyDeleteSame people? If so they'll probably be putting booze in the salad dressings.
ReplyDelete4:08 PM: I wonder when the last Chinese takeout restaurant was opened in Manhattan. Surely a dying breed.
ReplyDeleteOne down, fifty to go!
ReplyDeleteThey'll only put alcohol in the dressing during private events for the underage and teens and preteens
ReplyDeleteIt was "Bamboo House." Loved their chicken with garlic sauce.
ReplyDeleteChloe Sevigny should open a place here, since she laments how "dead" the East Village is.
ReplyDeletePut your money where your mouth is my favorite bridge between the art girl and the she-bro.
"4:08 PM: I wonder when the last Chinese takeout restaurant was opened in Manhattan."
ReplyDeleteThis is not an answer to your question, but 2 or 3 times a week I order take-out at "China Star" on 9th Street and First Avenue.
Then I go eat it across the street at Big Lee's place "The Hard Swallow". Food always goes down easier with a beer :)