Report: craft-beer-focused bar-restaurant coming to old Kurve space

Grub Street gets the word on what's coming to the former Kurve-Rhong Tiam space on Second Avenue and Fifth Street: a craft-beer-focused bar-restaurant. And it's from the team behind Dempsey's and Sláinte. And don't call it an Irish pub! "The food will be in the American comfort-food mode with some twisted-up Irish dishes mixed in for good measure," owner Tom O'Byrne told Grub Street.

They're just one of the 40 items on next month's CB3/SLA docket.

Spying on progress at the former Kurve space just got more difficult

Monday evening!

Last evening!

Where's the fun in that?

Former Kurve space kleaned out

The city issued the permits last week for workers to renovate the former Kurve/Rhong-Tiam space on Second Avenue at Fifth Street. And workers quickly cleaned out the former thai eatery, which you can see for yourself now that they removed the paper on the windows...



Now!

The new operators of the space were on the agenda for this month's CB3/SLA meeting listed only (and mysteriously!) as "corp to be formed." However, they were a late scratch from the docket.

The exterior of the former Rhong Tiam continues to amuse

The former fancy Kurve/Rhomg Tiam space on Second Avenue and Fifth Street continues to look a little, well, neglected... as always, we enjoy seeing what we'll find here next... such as abandoned furniture ...





However, our friend Miss Heather at New York Shitty came across some dandy urban artifacts here this past weekend... She found what she likes to call the 2011 East Village Survival Kit!* (*also good for use in the Lower East Side, Williamsburg, East Williamsburg or Greenpoint, among other locales, she notes...)

Per New York Shitty:

On second thought...Rhong Tiam the Sequel not likely happening

JUST the other night, the former Rhong Tiam space on Second Avenue and Fifth Street was all lit up...

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A worker on the scene said that they'd be reopening next month...

THEN! Last evening, while walking by, "for rent" signs had gone up...

World's long private party almost over: Rhong Tiam is returning!

The space formerly known as Rhong Tiam on Fifth Street and Second Avenue was all lit up last night... as if it was — open!



The space is being cleaned up.... and some of the garish fixtures have been moved around...





I asked a worker if they were reopening. He said no. Then he said a new place would be open next month.

As Grub Street reported last month:

"Andy Yang tells us he has closed the East Village outpost of Rhong Tiam. “It was a miscalculation,” he says of its predecessor Kurve, with its infamous Karim Rashid design." He's also considering whether to remodel it (bringing the kitchen upstairs) and reopen it with a less off-putting décor, or to simply let go of the space.

Looks as if he is going the remodeling route.

Rhong Tiam keeping hopes alive; making for good advertising space

The former Rhong Tiam here at Second Avenue and Fifth Street continues to provide entertainment...



Meanwhile, the folks next door at Second Avenue Deli Grocery...



...figure they can expand their advertising on that not-in-use-for-the-moment Rhong Tiam space....

Rhong Tiam pretty much not fooling anyone

The sign remains even though workers were removing appliances yesterday...



The thai eatery has been closed now for nearly three weeks here on Fifth Street and Second Avenue. Unless it's one helluva private party...

Previously on EV Grieve:
Kurve/Rhong Tiam's long, strange trip is apparently over

Rhong Tiam still pretending as if it's open

Yesterday afternoon....



Of course, the space at Second Avenue and Fifth Street has been closed for more than a week... And, last week, owner Andy Yang told Grub Street that he has closed the East Village outpost of Rhong Tiam... yet the "closed for private party" sign emerged...and the sign was not there Friday or Saturday...

Previously on EV Grieve:
Kurve/Rhong Tiam's long, strange trip is apparently over

The Rhong Tiam dilemma: Stay (and remodel) or go

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Grub Street has the official word on what's up with Kurve/Rhong Tiam on Second Avenue and Fifth Street:

"Andy Yang tells us he has closed the East Village outpost of Rhong Tiam. “It was a miscalculation,” he says of its predecessor Kurve, with its infamous Karim Rashid design." (Above!) He's also considering whether to remodel it (bringing the kitchen upstairs) and reopen it with a less off-putting décor, or to simply let go of the space, Grub Street notes.

What do you think? Remodel or let it go?

Previously on EV Grieve:
Kurve/Rhong Tiam's long, strange trip is apparently over

Kurve/Rhong Tiam's long, strange trip is apparently over

Oh my what a wacky few years here on Second Avenue and Fifth ... where Kurve became Rhong Tiam East... the potted-plant neglectors here have been "closed for operating" illegally ... battled local taggers... given themselves a Michelin star...

The location is seemingly closed now... Let's start with Friday evening.



I walked by several times later and never saw any private parties inside. Unless it was off-site....




And people were stopping by to eat...



Yesterday, the place looked pretty dismantled...and the phone was not in service.




And all last week, there were offering 25 percent off...



To be honest, I actually called for delivery one night last week. Was curious about their food. However, I was told the special was reserved for people who would eat in the restaurant... not for people who wanted it to go or delivered...

Oh, also on Friday, a photographer and her subject were using the wall for whatever this was...



All Kurve Koverage.

One year later, Kurve/Rhong Tiam East decides to paint over the tags

The first tag appeared on the Fifth Street side of Kurve last April... since then, a few more have been added... and it looked like this...



Now, though, the paint came out...

Backseat drivers will now be forced to sit outside Rhong Tiam/Kurve

On Fifth Street and Second Avenue.