Thursday, June 20, 2024

Signs from an old chair: Remembering East Village standby Angelica Kitchen on 12th Street

From last night on 12th Street just east of Second Avenue... a discarded chair with a note: 

An original chair from 
Angelica Kitchen
An East Village Icon 1976-2017
(Sacrilege to see Five Guys opening on this street)
You can read more about Angelica Kitchen, 300 E. 12th St., here. 

Thank you to @ajathas for the photos!

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Agree the 5 Brothers is a sacrilege.

Anonymous said...

Im sorry but during the 1970’s from the corner of 2nd ave to where the closed chinese restaurant is was a dry cleaners called R&S, they moved to 2nd ave in the 1980’s where the closed pizza shop in now currently. I remember this well because the dry cleaners had a dry cleaning facility on site, that distinctive dry clean smell would linger in the air.

Anonymous said...

What’s wrong with 5Guys?

Anonymous said...

@9:52, boomers in the EV won't be happy until the buildings are abandoned and burnt out because that's the only way the city will be great again

Anonymous said...

It’s a chain. I don’t know about you but I didn’t move to the east village 25 years ago out of love for chain restaurants.

Anonymous said...

Even worse than being a chain, 5 Guys commits the mortal sin of burgers by not permitting you to order it anything less than medium. What self-respecting burger place won't let you order a rare or medium-rare burger? Reason enough to never go there, though I do admit that their fries are pretty good.

Anonymous said...

Angelica opened on St. Mark’s in 1975, I moved it to 12th St in 1988

Anonymous said...

I got one of their pyrex glass pie dishes at home with me when they've left it outside the restaurant as it was closing .will forever treasure it!