Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Signage alert: Skinny Louie on 2nd Avenue

Signage arrived yesterday for a Skinny Louie outpost at 141 Second Ave. between St. Mark's Place and Ninth Street. (Thanks, Feryal!)

This will be the fifth NYC location for the Miami-based smash burger chain. (There are also Skinny Louies in the West Village, Nomad and UES ... with one coming to Penn Station and Park Slope later this year.) 

And this will be the second burger joint in very close proximity. Burgerhead debuted in December, a short distance away on Second Avenue and Ninth Street.

No. 141 has seen many quick-serve concepts, most recently Krave It ... and Planet Taco. Other recent past lives include Otto's Tacos for seven years. Before that, there was Good Guysa Subway (sandwich shop), part of a Max Brenner outpost, and Burritoville.

H/T Steven!

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm so over that smash thing! Give me a thick bloody burger please (Burgerhead is good).

Shadowwhispers said...

Hope they make it at this location.

Anonymous said...

Yeah let’s get over tasty burgers with delicious crusty edges.

Anonymous said...

More smash burgers, in the east village? Groundbreaking.

cmarrtyy said...

Burgers are the new pizza in the EV.

Anonymous said...

If burgers and pizza are popular with the boozers looking to soak up all that alcohol before heading home from the East Village, maybe a late night pancake place would be successful? Rolled pancakes with maple filling? I would buy that at 2am after a gig!

Brian said...

There are now officially more smash burger places than cell phone stores.

Anonymous said...

Never heard of this business until now. Has anyone tried their products and enjoyed it?

Anonymous said...

Maybe artisanal biscuits? Remember Empire Biscuit on Avenue A? "Biscuit-gate"?? In fairness, it was 10 years ago.