Kamakura Coffee Shop now open on East 5th Street

We missed this one... EVG reader John points us to a coffee shop that opened here at 543 E. Fifth St. just west of Avenue B on Sept. 30 ... it's apparently a nice low-key place ... espresso drinks, some vegan baked goods... No tables and chairs, though there is that bench outside...

Pie Face shows its, uh, face on Fourth Avenue

[Bobby Williams]

The sign for the latest NYC location of Pie Face went up on Saturday afternoon at Fourth Avenue and East 13th Street...



The Australian bakery reportedly opens today.

Per DNAinfo:

The 24-hour bakery [offers] a full menu of flaky pies stuffed with fillings like mince meat, Philly cheesesteak and tandoori vegetable.

The space was previously home to Brothers Deli. A tipster originally told us that the Pie Face was opening next door at the former Dryden Gallery ... and that a Juice Generation was opening on the corner. We'll see if we can get this sorted out...

Previously on EV Grieve:
Coming and going on Fourth Avenue

Southeast corner of Fourth Avenue and East 13th Street is up for grabs

Root & Bone announces itself on E. 3rd St.

As reported last week, "Top Chef" alum Jeff McInnis and current "Top Chef" contestant Janine Boothwas are joining forces to open a restaurant called Root & Bone at the former Mama's Food Shop and Heart N' Soul on East Third Street and Avenue B... the exterior is being prepped for the new venture, which "will celebrate Southern foodways," as Food & Wine put it.



... and the mural-in-progress is via @ArtByJW ...



Previously on EV Grieve:
[Updated] Note outside Heart N' Soul explains that the chef had a 'nervous breakdown'

Mama's Food Shop closes after 15 years; 'the community nature of the neighborhood has all but vanished'

Rumors: 'Top Chef' alum Jeff McInnis will help revamp former Mama's Food Shop space

Today in photos of hawks eating squirrels along East 7th Street

Photos by Bobby Williams

Updated:

Goggla has more photos here.

One fall day

Photo this afternoon on Avenue A and East 7th Street by @Creature_NYC

Week in Grieview

[Yesterday on St. Mark's Place via Bobby Williams]

El Sombrero will stay open until early December (Monday)

What it might be like living inside the cube on Astor Place (Wednesday)

Found photos in the East Village (Friday)

Buy a synagogue (Tuesday)

Former Diablo Royale Este space on A will become a Greek restaurant (Thursday)

Rite Aid closing on East 14th Street (Monday)

Out and About with Sally Young (Wednesday)

Looking at the murals at King Tut's Wah Wah Hut (Thursday)

Is Mighty Quinn's the best new restaurant in NYC? (Tuesday)

Jerry's Artarama coming to 4th Avenue (Wednesday)

A new 13-story building for 331 E. Houston St. (Monday)

Alphabet Scoop has returned (Sunday)

Progress report on 31-33 Second Ave. (Tuesday)

The Lyric Diner returns (Thursday)

The Halal Guys are opening their first restaurant here (Tuesday)

How to see the inside of CBGB again (Friday)

What's coming to the former Mama's space (Tuesday)

Louis C.K. filmed here (Wednesday)

2nd annual Tompkins Square Iron chef is today

Via the EVG inbox...

2nd Annual Tompkins Square Iron Chef Cook Off returns to the East Village
The Tompkins Square Greenmarket will be hosting a Iron Chef-style cook-off between 2 legends of the locavore restaurant scene. Chefs must tackle a basket of market mystery ingredients and prepare a dish for a panel of judges. Will it be Jimmy Carbone from Jimmy's No. 43 representing the EV or Jacob Bensley from Miller's Near & Far of the LES? Chefs start at 12. Judging at 1. There will also be a limited number of samples available to the public.

There is a 'No 7-Eleven' rally this afternoon

Via the EVG inbox from the No 7-Eleven blog...

The bikes are coming in nicely this fall in Tompkins Square Park

Banksy's mobile garden draws a crowd on St. Mark's Place

Banksy's NYC tour continued this evening with his mobile garden making an appearance on St. Mark's Place between Third Avenue and Second Avenue... EVG regular jdx happened by ... the truck was hereabouts for roughly an hour, rambling on around 9 p.m., per jdx ...

Updated

Gothamist has more photos here.

Someone put a fake window on the Hare Krishna Tree in Tompkins Square Park

Really?

Photo by Bobby Williams

Don't fuck with 'Serendipity'

Looks as if someone tried to uproot "Serendipity," the life-sized sculpture of Christopher Gamble's silhouette in Tompkins Square Park. The silhouette is in honor of Gamble, who was homeless for nearly 28 years. Fanny Allié's creation will be in the Park through November.

Dressing it up is one thing... but this?

Photo by Bobby Williams.