As previously noted, there was ample oyster competition here, as the well-established Desnuda is across the street. And the wine bar Ruffian, with a broader menu, opened at 125 E. Seventh St., around the same time as Virgola.
The original Virgola opened three years ago on Greenwich Avenue. And Virgola has expanded nationwide with locations in Florida, Oklahoma and Wisconsin, according to the Virgola USA website.
So far Virgola has not responded to our query about the closure.
Virgola opened at 111 E. 7th St. between Avenue A and First Avenue last month.
Now owner Joseph Marazzo is planning to open another outpost of his oyster bar and Italian wine cafe... this time at 221 Avenue B between East 13th Street and East 14th Street.... there's a CB3 notice on the gate announcing that Virgola will be on the February SLA docket for a beer-wine full-liquor license...
The address was last home to Camp David, an upscale lounge-tapas bar that quietly closed some time last summer.
According to its website, the Avenue B Virgola will open this spring. Aside from the original location on Greenwich Avenue, there's an outpost in the works for Ormond Beach, Fla., as well.
Dinner with Christo in Tompkins Square Park (Gog in NYC)
A wide-ranging interview with R.B. Korbet, of the late, great proto-hardcore band Even Worse (Flaming Pablum)
... and a music break with Even Worse live at the Peppermint Lounge circa 1982...
NYPL adds more vintage pics to its digital collection (Curbed)
Interview with Meryl Meisler, who has a new book of photos titled "Purgatory & Paradise: Sassy '70s Suburbia and The City." (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)
Onetime home of Britney Spears at 14 E. Fourth St. (aka the Silk Building) is on the market for $7.6 million (Curbed)
When the Beastie Boys covered the Beatles' 1965 track "I'm Down" (Dangerous Minds)
Edwin and Neal's Fish Bar is now in service at 345 E. Sixth St. just west of First Avenue. As we first reported, the restaurant is a larger extension of Shane Covey's Upstate, which is still in business around the corner at 95 First Ave. He described Edwin and Neal's as a neighborhood fish place.
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On East Seventh Street, an outpost of the Greenwich Avenue-based Virgola, an oyster and wine bar, has opened at 111 E. Seventh St. between Avenue A and First Avenue ...
The signage has arrived at 111 E. Seventh St. for Virgola, the Greenwich Village-based oyster-and-wine cafe that's opening an outpost here between Avenue A and First Avenue...
Owner Joseph Marazzo told DNAinfo in August that the East Village location will have the same vibe as the original — "with a dimly lit, black interior similar to the Greenwich Avenue bar and a new steel bar."
The previous tenant here, The Bourgeois Pig, closed after 10 years in late January, moving to a new location on MacDougal Street.
