Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy
We have more details about the incoming coffee-and-matcha shop at 64 Avenue A: It will be called Lucky Cafe.
The owner is East Village resident and artist James Phillips (below). Some readers may recognize Phillips from his skateboard artwork, which he has displayed on the SE corner of Second Avenue at Seventh Street.
Lucky Cafe is aiming for a soft opening in mid-March. The space is coming together with a green, cream and brown palette, and bench seating. Phillips also designed and made the floor tiles.
This will be the latest addition to the block-long Untitled building between Fourth Street and Fifth Street. Other new retail tenants here are Barryville General and B&H Barber Shop.
5 comments:
I am very excited for a new coffee shop, but isn't there a Lucky Bar on Ave B?
Yes indeed there is. Certainly we wish the young man luck with his new venture but his naming choice does seem unfortunate given the very same neighborhood has a well established venue who got there first.
Yeah. Bummer about the name.
So much of this lately. Mary’s is another egregious example considering how long Mary O’s has been around.
It’s odd to have any proprietary expectations about “Mary” or “lucky”
What’s next, Mike, Kate, Sweet, Happy, being off limits for a business name?
I’m not taking my kid to a bar but I am to a cafe. That’s all you need to differentiate if you’ve decided to use an extremely basic simple name.
Now if there was xylophone bar …and then unrelated xylophone cafe opened, sure that would raise eyebrows.
What’s weird to me are two unrelated bars in the neighborhood named one and one & the new one4one. Then there’s also midtown bar oneonefour and event space onefourone.
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