Thursday, February 12, 2026

Brooklyn Dumpling Shop closes flagship East Village location

Photos by Steven 

Brooklyn Dumpling Shop has shut down its flagship location on the southwest corner of St. Mark's Place and First Avenue. 

Door signage for patrons notes "we're closing this chapter and turning the volume WAY up — now coast to coast."
The expanding brand has outposts in cities including Philadelphia, Orlando, Dallas, Vancouver... not to mention at Yankee Stadium and Madison Square Garden... and in grocery freezers. You can also find them on the Upper East Side and, soon, actually in Brooklyn.

This location opened in May 2021 after a few pandemic-related delays. (The signage first arrived on March 20, 2020.) 

Brooklyn Dumpling Shop featured an automat-type arrangement serving more than 30 varieties of dumplings and spring rolls around the clock.
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23 comments:

  1. ShadowwhispersFebruary 12, 2026 at 7:38 AM

    Never could warm to it. I like dumplings, wish there were more in the neighborhood but this just wasn't my spot.

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  2. DrGeckoFebruary 12, 2026 at 8:16 AM

    Early in the pandemic, the owner wouldn't let the staff wear masks. Maybe he thought it important that they cough on the dumplings?

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  3. drewFebruary 12, 2026 at 9:12 AM

    with locations everywhere but brooklyn..

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  4. drewFebruary 12, 2026 at 9:13 AM

    good riddance Mr.Wonderful.. the place was awful

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  5. KevinFebruary 12, 2026 at 9:33 AM

    Won’t be missed. Surprised they lasted this long. We didn’t forget

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  6. PJFebruary 12, 2026 at 10:09 AM

    Should maybe have named it "EV Dumplings". The whole "Brooklyn Authenticity" brag is getting a bit stale.

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  7. AlexFebruary 12, 2026 at 10:13 AM

    Admittedly, I bemoan the fact that "Brooklyn Dumpling Shop" may leave the impression nationwide that we think these are solid dumplings.

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  8. XeoFebruary 12, 2026 at 10:29 AM

    I wanted to like that place but after the shit the owner pulled in covid... going full hog anti vax and "come at me government" about it... wasn't going to forget that

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    1. G.K.February 12, 2026 at 7:16 PM

      So all the rules like 6 feet distancing, ineffective cloth masks, wildly varying rules about congregating (not in a restaurant, church but to protest a-ok) which were all proven to be ridiculous and his position to be accurate you didn’t like so we’re all dancing on this grave. I remember when they first opened they handed out free samples, owner or manager who was doing so seemed like a nice guy, I’ll never understand celebrating people losing their jobs or business.

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    2. XeoFebruary 13, 2026 at 1:00 AM

      doing the most basic stuff to protect 1. your own employees and 2. your customers was not a "oh it didn't work so it was invalid". Turns out if you actually enforced that stuff it did work. Get outta here with that anti vax sympathizer shit. You forget very quickly how bad it started in NYC. Taking that stance at that time was some self centered lowlife shit.

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  9. MFebruary 12, 2026 at 11:10 AM

    Lhasa at 1st Avenue and 11th is the place for dumplings. It is the EV outpost of the great Queens restaurant known for excellent Tibetan food.

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    1. ShadowwhispersFebruary 13, 2026 at 8:43 AM

      Gotta go check Lhasa out! Nan Xiang Xiao Long Bao and Mimi Cheng make some pretty good dumplings too.

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  10. cmarrtyyFebruary 12, 2026 at 1:22 PM

    I'm singing... Another fascist bites the dust...

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  11. mikeFebruary 12, 2026 at 3:10 PM

    Went there once. It wasn't that good. Dumplings were dry.

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  12. #DONTEVERCALLMEBROFebruary 12, 2026 at 3:15 PM

    I remember when it first opened the reviews were not good so I never went. As per the comments on this thread, I didn't miss anything. 

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  13. RRFebruary 12, 2026 at 4:32 PM

    Bring back the Foot Gear guys.

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    1. DrGeckoFebruary 13, 2026 at 8:20 AM

      Foot Gears's dumplings weren't so good, either, tbh. Tasted like shoe leather.

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    2. ShadowwhispersFebruary 13, 2026 at 8:41 AM

      The dumplings and the shoes had a similar taste.

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  14. martyFebruary 13, 2026 at 11:13 AM

    Was never a fan. Crappy food. And I saw one of their workers come from the back, go out to SMP and piss between two cars. Sanitary? Classy? LOL.

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  15. Brandon BFebruary 13, 2026 at 12:44 PM

    The food was literally the worst I've had in the city in my entire life

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  16. EVnowFebruary 13, 2026 at 7:41 PM

    Aren’t there a ton of dumpling shops all
    Over st marks 2/3ave? I was thinking about it the other day and had no idea how I’d decide which to go to!

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  17. SteveFebruary 16, 2026 at 10:49 AM

    They opened a branch in my hometown, a college town. Even college students wouldn't eat them despite the desperate attempt to wrap them in supposed Brooklyn cool. They closed in about a year

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  18. AmeliaFebruary 21, 2026 at 12:39 PM

    Beyond the terrible food, they were just bad neighbors. I’m very glad to see them go. Definitely miss Foot Gear - those guys were great. I hope something wonderful comes into the space, there’s so much opportunity on that corner - takes a pretty poor business to not make a go

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