Wednesday, September 7, 2022

Caleta will offer small plates and Bad Habit ice cream on Avenue A

After 18 months of making ice cream from their Bushwick apartment, real-life couple Jesse Merchant Zuñiga and Javier Zuñiga are opening their own storefront in the East Village, they announced in an Instagram post last week. (H/T Vinny & O!)

Caleta — with a tagline of "not a wine bar" — has an anticipated late-fall opening at 131 Avenue A between St. Mark's Place and Ninth Street. 

During the day, they will serve cartons of their Bad Habit ice cream (a business created during the pandemic). And by night, as Eater reported, Caleta "will offer a New American small plates menu to pair with wine, cartons of their ice cream, as well as desserts that use Bad Habit product like baked Alaska." 

The space was previously Thai Direct, which closed following a COVID-related rent dispute with the landlord, per the restaurant's ownership.
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2 comments:

  1. NeighborSeptember 7, 2022 at 8:28 AM

    Nice! Hope the ice cream is good. We need more ice cream shops in Alphabet City after we lost some great ones during the lockdowns.

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 7, 2022 at 9:37 AM

    Their ice cream flavors sound really good.

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