Monday, February 12, 2024

On the CB3-SLA docket: Williamsburg’s Win Son Bakery plans East Village outpost

The team behind the popular Taiwanese-American Win Son Bakery in East Williamsburg will appear before CB3's SLA committee tonight for a liquor license at 23 Second Ave. between First Street and Second Street.
Like the Brooklyn outpost, the East Village location will serve as a café, bakery and restaurant ... with proposed hours of 8 a.m. to midnight daily. (Find a PDF of the questionnaire here.)

The bakery opened in September 2019 at 164 Graham Ave. at Montrose Avenue... several years after the Win Son restaurant debuted (to long lines). 

Many of their goods have been celebrated, like the mochi millet doughnuts. The New Yorker called their Mortadella Pancake a perfect breakfast sandwich in NovemberYou can check out the Win Son Bakery menu here.

The previous tenant here, the dance studio Exile Professional Gym (EXPG), never reopened after the PAUSE of March 2020.

Also on tonight's agenda: The AYS Hospitality Team (that includes Tabetomo on Avenue A) is behind two new concepts on the same block...

• AYS Libations LLC, 126 St Marks Pl (op) — the former East Village Social space ... (PDF here)

• AYS Libations LLC, 122 St Marks Pl (wb) — the former Holyland Market... (PDF here)

Tonight's meeting starts at 6:30. Find the Zoom link here. This is a hybrid meeting, and there is limited seating available for the public — the first 15 people who show up at the Community Board 3 Office, 59 E. Fourth St. between Second Avenue and the Bowery.  

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

Win Son Brooklyn is very close to the Montrose Avenue L stop — worth the trip. Not sure why the bakery needs a liquor license but it will be a nice addition to our neighborhood.

Anonymous said...

Finally — this spot has been an eyesore forever. Hopefully, this helps the new spot, Bad Hombre (formerly Amigo), too.

The commercial RE industry in this city is as corrupt and grotesque as it gets.

MrNiceGuy said...

WinSon is a great spot, I'll be happy to have an outpost here in the EV!

Scuba Diva said...

Sorry to be a Debbie Downer, but I see nothing vegan on the menu; that's a hard pass from me.

Anonymous said...

Hopefully they have the tenacity to get that corner into shape. Its been rough there for a while.

Anonymous said...

It's not a vegan restaurant, @Scuba Diva

Anonymous said...

Been wanting to try this place for a while so glad to see they’ll be opening a location in EV

Anonymous said...

I did see some vegan options on the menu. Not many.

bill said...

Go vegan!

Anonymous said...

Win Son is fantastic. Another amazing food option for the EV!

Scuba Diva said...

At 1:18 PM, Anonymous quoth:

It's not a vegan restaurant, @Scuba Diva

I'm not expecting every restaurant to be vegan or even vegan-friendly, but most restaurants offer something that doesn't have meat in it—for instance, if an omnivore needs to give a reason for a vegan friend to accompany their party of 6, they can say, "The fries are amazing!"

But you do you.

Anonymous said...

It’s a bakery. They don’t serve fries.

Grieve said...

@7:33

They are open for lunch and dinner, and serve sandwiches and fried chicken, etc. Fries are on the menu... I linked to the menu in the post.