Friday, February 3, 2017

98 Favor Taste signage arrives on St. Mark's Place



The signage arrived yesterday on St. Mark's Place at Second Avenue for 98 Favor Taste, as these photos via EVG Senior Signage Correspondent Steven show ...





The restaurant comes via Liju Lin, who has run the 99 Favor Taste restaurant in Sunset Park since 2011 ... and the Grand Street location since 2012.

The restaurants specialize in traditional Korean-style barbecue and Chinese hot pot meals.

Upon opening on Grand Street, the Voice gave 99 Favor an enthusiastic review... calling it "a feastly orgy: trays heaped with raw meats and fishes, feathery greens and fungi, boiling and bubbling pots, and popping and sizzling meats top every table. Diners crowd around, heads-down, slurping noodles and soup with chopsticks, only looking up to tend the meat, cooking at arm's distance away."

These storefronts have been vacant going on five years now. Timi's Gelateria Classica™ closed at the end of 2011 in one of the spaces… while Michael "Bao" Huynh's Baoguette Cafe shut down at summer's end in 2012.

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5 comments:

pinhead said...

I can't help it, but I'm irritated that Sunset Park gets an extra favor.

Anonymous said...

Jesus Christ. That signage is straight out of Sunset Park.

Anonymous said...

yep, thats a sunset park sign - not mad at it though

Anonymous said...

The Chinese characters still say 99...

NOTORIOUS said...

I got 99 favors and a taste ain't one.