EV Grieve

Sunday, February 19, 2012

[Avenue A near 10th Street]

A three-alarm fire at 21 E. Second St. (Wednesday)

The Holiday will become a restaurant-lounge serving fish-n-chips (Tuesday)

Happy birthday McSorley's (Friday)

A runaway running machine (Thursday)

For the people who said that the Mars Bar was always a pit (Monday)

Be Tom Cruise's neighbor (Tuesday)

A new look at 51 Astor Place (Wednesday)

It was Coen Brothers Week (Friday)

A short-term rental where the guests aren't supposed to talk to the neighbors (Tuesday)

The Bowery's first Synagogue (Monday)

Starbucks on First Avenue and East Third Street opens tomorrow

Hugh Burckhardt at More Than Usual points us to this sign at the freshly egged Starbucks on First Avenue and East Third Street...

Meanwhile, we took a look inside ourselves on Friday evening ...

This will be one of the select locations to serve Starbucks Reserve™ Coffee. Per a 2010 Starbucks blog post:

Everyone claims to have the world’s best coffee! But not often are the words “exotic, rare and exquisite” used to describe that coffee. For Starbucks to append all three words, the coffee must be really special.

We’ve introduced Starbucks Reserve™ coffee to a limited number of stores. This new line of coffees, each available only for a short time, represents the best of the best! You can expect to find flavors that explode on your palate and fade with a lingering complexity. When you taste a Starbucks Reserve™ coffee, you’ll be reminded of our heritage and the early days of the specialty coffee business that we helped to create.

Only 3% of the world’s coffee is good enough to make it into a bag of our coffee, and Starbucks Reserve™ represents a tiny fraction of that 3%. You all have told us that you want to see rare and exotic coffees in our stores, and that is exactly what we have done in bringing treasures like Galapagos San Cristobal to you.

And this looks like the latest Reserve release... from a news release dated Jan. 5, 2012:

Starbucks announces the release of Organic Ethiopia Sidamo® coffee, one of the most renowned coffees in the world for its distinctive lemon flavors. For the first time in the Starbucks coffee line, follow the journey from crop to cup by scanning the QR code on the bag. From being meticulously tended by coffee farmers in their family gardens, to how each cherry is ripened and handpicked at the peak of its flavor, to the exquisite flavor notes in each cup, this digital journey is a unique opportunity for customers to learn more about this coffee.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Today's sign of the apocalypse: Starbucks taking over The Bean's space on First Avenue and Third Street

The East Village rolls out welcome wagon for new Starbucks

There are pieces of Kate Moss all over the East Village

You've seen those Kate Moss ads for Supreme seemingly everywhere the last few days...

We've seen people try to pull these things off the plywood for souvenirs...

...and workers charged with keeping the construction sites ad-free...

... as a result, there are bit and pieces of the ads on a lot of sidewalks this morning...

Someone egged the new Starbucks on First Avenue last night

Looked about two or three eggs here at East Third Street. And this employee had to clean it up...

This location officially opens tomorrow.

Noted

"Heavier loads"? Photo by Stephen Popkin last night.

Saturday, February 18, 2012

Report: Cab crashes into Hearth last night

[Image via @marcocanora]

From Eater, we learn that a cab crashed into Hearth on First Avenue at East 12th Street last night around 11. There weren't any injuries.

Packing up the 1960s on East Ninth Street

After the Coen Brothers filmed scenes for the 1960s period piece "Inside Llewyn Davis" on East Ninth Street yesterday ... crews were on the scene early this morning to pack up the dressed-up storefronts...