[Photos from Saturday]
The Bowery Market opened to great fanfare this past July ... the open-air food market at 348 Bowery and Great Jones was billed as a year-round destination. This past Friday, workers finally winterized the space that features several quick-serve kiosks with several stools at each food stand...
The Market opened with five vendors — Alidoro, Champion Coffee, The Butcher's Daughter, Pulqueria and Sushi on Jones... and at the moment, they are down to three.
A note on the The Butcher's Daughter website says they are closed for the winter. They shut down last fall with "closed for renovations" notices. This coincided with a visit by the DOH, who ordered the restaurant closed for several "critical violations," including "Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred."
Meanwhile, Champion Coffee has not been open in recent weeks... paper covers the windows...
The space looks to have been cleared out... and the Bowery Market is no longer listed as a location on the Champion Coffee website...
Meanwhile, for the remaining vendors, the listed hours are daily from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sushi on Jones received a positive review from the Times back in the fall. And we've heard from several people who say they like the sandwiches at Alidoro.
The address had been without a full-time tenant since Downtown Auto & Tire left in April 2012.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Please meet the next corner of the Bowery primed for something luxurious
Downtown Auto & Tire has left the Bowery
Rumors: 348 Bowery will house new food market
I wandered through the market one day. It doesn't take long. I wasn't feeling it. Why do I need $4 coffee in a back alley? Or sushi on a stool?
ReplyDeleteI'd rather see this setup here than a highrise any day. gotta check it out!
ReplyDeleteMaybe the rents should reflect the fact that you'll get virtually no customers 3-4 months out of the year...
ReplyDeletedidn't know about this, will stop by! thank you!
ReplyDeleteIt was a bad idea from the get go. I passed by there a lot during the summer and fall. There was always a bunch of fat, self-congratulatory guys clogging the sidewalk, occasionally serving over priced food to people sitting in cramped quarters. God what will they think of next... Food in a sewer?
ReplyDeleteThe Bowery, where even the smallest dreams go to die. Or, as Anonymous said so perfectly in the original EV Grieve post on this seeminlgy doomed spot:
ReplyDelete"WTF has happened to the bowery? It is a shit show of homogeny, luxury, and bullshit. Where's the character? The distinction? It used to be the bomb. Now, you have to make over a million dollars in order to live here. RIP NYC :("
"The Bowery: Homogeny, Luxury, and Bullshit." Now that should be The Bowery's new tagline.
Whereas Downtown Auto & Tire had no trouble sustaining a customer base all year round. When will landlords learn that not every space should be filled with high-end "luxury," that some things should just be left the way they are, even if gritty and dirty?
ReplyDeleteNot gonna say I saw this coming but now that it's failing it does appear to have been a stupid idea to begin with. To the developer's credit, they went out on a limb and tried something different. Not gonna fault anyone for that.
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