Friday, December 4, 2020

Loverboy has apparently closed on Avenue C

Multiple readers have pointed out that Loverboy has apparently closed on Avenue C at Eighth Street... a reader who lives nearby reports that workers emptied this space this week... 
There isn't any mention of a temporary or permanent closure on the bar-restaurant's website or social media properties.

Loverboy, specializing in pizza and slushy drinks, opened in June 2017 ... from the team behind Mother's Ruin on Spring Street. 

As previously noted, this corner space — in a building owned by Steve Croman — has been home to many concepts in recent years, some forgettable ... the list includes Lumé, the "Epicurean drinkery," ... Life — Kitchen and Bar … which had taken over for Verso. Other restaurants here in the past nine years include Caffe Pepe Rosso and Caffe Cotto

Before all this, the storefront once housed an excellent neighborhood bakery … (which apparently Iggy Pop frequented for cake and strong coffee in the early 1990s).

6 comments:

Ronnie said...

used to go to Cafe Pepe Rosso all the time back in the day

Gojira said...

Yeah, the bakery for strong, sweet, milky Spanish coffee and hot buttered bread...sigh...

Anonymous said...

Nice place. Always a confusing name for a non-gay bar... but boy those Destroyer drinks

Anonymous said...

They didn't keep indoors dining rules, maybe since they knew they were closing.

Jill W said...

wow it seems like just a few weeks ago they were building outdoor areas.

Anonymous said...

That bakery was Rebecca’s, so so good! Often wonder what happened to them, if they opened a place somewhere else. Their cheese danish things are still unmatched