EVG reader Harry Weiner shared this photo from Monday... showing Chat 'N Chew looking as if it never closed three-plus years ago on 16th Street just west of Union Square.
Per Harry: "If you peer inside, it looks eerily the same as the old one."
The homespun restaurant has a new Instagram account (as of Sept. 30) with one post...
On their landing page: "NEW ACCOUNT! A Union Square staple is coming back! Check back for updates on an opening date! Looking forward to see old friends & making new ones!"
Apparently they have been teasing a return in their front window dating back to the summer. Now it looks as if they're ready to open complete with holiday decorations.
Anyway, the comfort-food diner first opened in 1994 before quietly closing in July 2014, as Jeremiah Moss first reported. The owners were to revamp the space that fall as a pop-up concept Little Sal's Italiano.
The operating owner, Andrew Silverman, was also behind a variety of concept-y places, such as Steak Frites and News Bar.
2 comments:
HURRAY!!! This is such welcome news. Loved this place when I worked right around the corner on USW in the 90s/early 2000s, and continued to go until they closed. I hope it'll be as affordable (relatively) as it used to be...
Great news. I hope they will go back to the original menu. At one point, they had changed the menu, and the place lost it's charm. I want the comfort food and desserts they were originally known for!
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