XYZ puts up its letters on East 7th Street

The signage has arrived for the new cafe opening at 102 E. Seventh St. between Avenue A and First Avenue.

XYZ will be serving "Spanish-influenced food," according to documents (PDF!) filed at the CB3 website for this month's SLA committee meeting. (This item for a new beer-wine license was not heard at the meeting.)

XYZ will be serving food daily from 7 a.m. to midnight. The proprietors previously ran Pintxos over on Greenwich Street. New York magazine gave that cafe high marks:

One of Europe's oldest cuisines, Basque, has a toehold on the west side. Though its roots lie in the Pyrenees, here it's surrounded by high rises in the form of nearby condominium building sites. But barring the occasional construction noise, this restaurant manages to feel unruffled and intimate. A husband-and-wife team serves not only in the namesake pintxos, the Basque equivalent of tapas, but also full-sized entrées. Simple dishes deploy characteristic Basque ingredients — seafood, peppers, pork—to great effect.

The previous tenant here, Tink's Cafe, closed in early June.

New projects in the works for the Tink's and B.A.D Burger spaces

CB3 should be releasing the agenda for July's SLA committee meeting some time soon... ahead of that, we have an idea of at least two applicants taking over now-closed spaces in the neighborhood...

Notices are now up at 171 Avenue A, where B.A.D. Burger closed early this year between East 10th Street and East 11th Street...


[Photo via @aleighdear]

There are plans for a Vietnamese restaurant, and it looks as if the applicant is seeking a full liquor license with use of the backyard garden.



B.A.D. Burger was never able to secure a beer-wine license for the space. After CB3 denied his beer-wine request in 2012, B.A.D. Burger owner Keith Masco reportedly called the board "fascist."

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Meanwhile, there are also notices posted at the recently closed Tink's on East Seventh Street between Avenue A and First Avenue...





More about the applicants as soon as the questionnaires are posted at the CB3 website. Meanwhile, a note for the U.S. Postal Service...

Tink's has closed on East 7th Street

On Saturday, an EVG reader told us that Tink's had abruptly closed on East Seventh Street between Avenue A and First Avenue.

A sign outside the cafe noted: "No more. It's been real."



We don't know what the reason was for the closure. There isn't any mention of the closing on the cafe's social media properties. The family-run business opened at 102 E. Seventh St. in October 2012.

EV Eatery Etc.: Tink's signage; Cafe Amore's for rent signs

Catching up on a few items...

[Bobby Williams]

Back in December, we first spotted the signage for Tink's Cafe coming soon to 102 E. Seventh St. As you can see, workers added an awning on Tuesday for the eatery, which will serve Middle Eastern comfort foods...

A few weeks ago, the Marshal seized Cafe Amore's Pizza on East 14th Street... guess it's for good — "for rent" signs went up late last week ...

[Bobby Williams]

... and "United States of Food" and its host, chef Todd Fisher, have been filming around the neighborhood... outside the Big Gay Ice Cream Shop yesterday... (it's on the renamed Planet Green network — Discovery Communications... )

Doug Quint at Big Gay Ice Cream said that it was for a bacon episode — a breakfast, lunch, dinner, cocktail and dessert all with bacon ... filmed at Crif Dogs a few days ago....

Coming soon to Seventh Street: Tink's Cafe; plus, remembering Body Worship

We don't know anything about this just yet... Dave on 7th spotted the coming soon sign here at 102 E. Seventh St. between Avenue A and First Avenue on Saturday ...

Dave and I reminisced for a moment about a previous tenant — Body Worship, which featured a stainless-steel penis as a door handle.

In the summer of 1994, some parishioners at St. Stanislaus across the street took offense at the store's window display, featuring, as the Times described it — "two mannequins striking sexually revealing master/slave poses prepared to engage in explicit sadomasochistic activities." The owner said it was a safe-sex message.

Bonus
The lead to the Times article, dated July 10, 1994:

In the heart of the raucous and rowdy East Village, St. Stanislaus Bishop and Martyr Church has hung onto its aging Polish congregation even as teen-agers with nipple rings, lime green hair, tattoos and combat boots have swarmed over the neighborhood.

How would you describe this "swarm" today?