Signs of warm weather: DBGB sheds its winter doors

This winter!



This week!



Can't you just smell the sausage?

Also...

I always like the 3D art....





Which reminds me:

Via Eater:

The Special: DBGB just launched a large format pig meal. It's $450 for up to eight guests and includes all you can drink craft ales, a whole Pennsylvania Green Village Farms applewood smoked and roasted pig stuffed with sausage and served family style with swiss chard, Gruyere, corn on the cob, potato gratin, and red and white sauerkraut. Baked Alaska for dessert.
When: They just need 72 hours notice; 212-933-5300.

DBGB soft launches its new sidewalk cafe

A remnant of the pre Bowery 2.0...

Íxta announces itself on the Bowery

Storefront signage is now up for Íxta at the long-vacant 299 Bowery between First Street and Houston. 

Last August, CB3 OK'd a liquor license for restaurateur Akbarali Himani, whose credits include a Chickpea in Penn Station and NISI Mediterranean in Times Square. 

A job listing for an executive chef here describes Íxta as a "trendy upscale Mexican restaurant." As previously noted, the space in the Avalon Bowery complex is quite large, with a capacity of 194 patrons, who would be treated to "live Mariachi performers," per the restaurant's questionnaire at CB3.

Daniel Boulud closed DBGB here in August 2017 after an eight-year run. 

DBGB's decorative planters finally receive a warm welcome to the neighborhood

DBGB expanding sidewalk cafe?

Ha. Previously.

EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning edition

News about Hot Dog (arrested for pounding a door with an onion?), Cut Man Eddy and the Mosaic Man (Neither More Nor Less)

"Oliver Twist-like kid burglar" responsible for rash of East Village thefts? (NY Post)

Art show at the Brooklyn Navy Yard (Jeremiah's Vanishing NY)

Bicycling with David Byrne (New York Times)

Bloomy buys BusinessWeek (MediaBistro)

World's longest article on Amanda Burton (New York Observer)

Stuy Town may default (Lux Living)

Sifton's review of DBGB starts with "HEY, ho, let’s go!" (New York Times)

Finally, I missed the report on Eater that Birdies on First Avenue near Ninth Street has closed and moved (or maybe the other way around). The storefront is for rent.

Week in Grieview

[Photo last Sunday on 2nd Avenue by Derek Berg]

Stories posted on EVG this past week included...

About Jake, who roamed the East Village these past 11 years (Thursday)

Golden Food Market closes on 1st Avenue and 7th Street (Tuesday)

5 years of Out and About in the East Village (Wednesday)

Here's the sidewalk bridge-free corner of 9th Street and 1st Avenue — and the 122 Community Center (Wednesday)

SobaKoh has closed on 5th Street (Monday)


[Photo Wednesday on 2nd Avenue by Derek Berg]

I Am a Rent-Stabilized Tenant (Friday)

Sunny's Florist off until after Labor Day (Thursday)

The former Shoolbred's space is for rent on 2nd Avenue (Thursday)

Eastern Bloc closes Sunday; Club Cumming coming soon (Friday)

The stately 153 Avenue B has a new owner (Thursday)

Tompkins Square Park sinkhole no longer sinking (Wednesday)

The Great Jones Cafe reopens (Wednesday)

DBGB is closing on the Bowery (Monday)


[Photo Thursday on 2nd Avenue by EVG]

244-46 E. 7th St. has a new owner (Tuesday)

Express Thali has not been open lately on 2nd Avenue (Tuesday)

Signage arrives for Ahimsa on 10th Street (Monday)

Baron's Dim Sum gives way to Tasty Garden on 6th Street (Thursday)

Sales underway for Rite Aid-adjacent condoplex on 1st Avenue (Wednesday)

Former Avenue A dental center is "great location for restaurant" (Thursday)

...and Key Food recently put up some new East Village-branded signage on Avenue A at Fourth Street...



Key is celebrating its 80th anniversary this year...



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The former Tatyana Boutique space is for rent on the Bowery

The Las Vegas-based fashion brand that sells upscale retro dresses, shoes and accessories recently closed in the Avalon Bowery Place complex at East First Street. That space is now for lease.

The listing at SCG Retails doesn't include the asking rent for the 2,207 square-foot storefront between Blue & Cream and DBGB.

Our educated guess on the monthly rent is — a lot.


[Bowery bum, 2016]

Time Out gives the Mosaic Man some love (a few days later...)

A few of us were curious why Time Out's current cover story on places to eat and drink and go to DBGB and the Cooper Square Hotel and recapture cool and stuff in the East Village didn't include any credit or mention of Jim "the Mosaic Man" Power. A photo of one of his iconic works is on the cover. One commenter even encouraged people to write a letter to the TONY editor. Give Jim his due.

Anyway, for whatever reasons -- perhaps this was already planned! -- a feature on Jim popped up on the TONY Web site yesterday afternoon.



The feature begins:

You probably recognize the image on our cover and homepage this week — and that was the point.

Bikini season on the Bowery

At whatever that new store is called next to the DBGB private garden.

Looking at what may be coming to 347 Bowery

Koi is one of the bars/restaurants going before the CB3/SLA tonight. Koi is applying for a full liquor license.

In preparation for this, some higher-profile Koi employees held a meet-and-greet at Sala Restaurant on the Bowery last Thursday to answer any questions about Koi possibly turning the former Salvation Army East Village Residence into another outpost of the upscale sushi eatery. (The other locations are in Bangkok, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and in NYC at Bryant Park).

There wasn't any planned presentation. It was rather informal. And awkward. Not many people were there, at least when I was around. (And no naked sushi models.) And the people who were there didn't strike me as the concerned-neighbor type. (The Lo-Down was there too and has additional coverage.)

A few random things from the evening:

— Everyone from Koi was really nice in that trying-too-hard way. But, still, nice.

— The patrons of the Bryant Park Koi were described as low-key, mellow, more mature (i.e., not a bunch of partygoers prone to peeing and vomiting in the streets — my words not their words).

— Someone from Koi volunteered that the former Salvation Army Residence would actually become a restaurant and not merely flipped to be converted into another condo/hotel/high rise. Hadn't even thought of that.

— Koi co-owner/CEO Nick Haque wasn't present, but he is expected tonight at the CB3 meeting.

There were pamphlets offering a few more details on the proposed restaurant. Two floors for the restaurant/bar...6,000-square-feet...230 total seats...overheard someone say the exterior design would be in keeping with the neighborhood.







To learn more about Koi, I visited their Web site and read the many press clippings available.





That write-up in Wine & Spirits on top is my favorite. In describing the LA Koi: "Its valet zone is standing-room-only with paparazzi hoping to catch a glimpse of Paris Hilton or Lindsay Lohan stepping out of an Escalade, and its bar is three deep with supermodels and those who like to be seen with them."

Hmm... Just think of the lux row lining up here...the Bowery Hotel and Cooper Square Hotel and DBGB and 52 East Fourth St and Keith McNally's coming-soon pizza joint and ....

[Updated] You can now sit outside at Nicoletta

Outside seating is now available at Nicoletta, beginning tonight! Enjoy your pizza outdoors in@ Nicoletta instagr.am/p/OkPbIxQ_Xw/

— Nicoletta Restaurant (@NicolettaNYC) August 20, 2012

Not real cozy-looking just yet here on Second Avenue and East 10th Street. And is that police tape?

Updated:

A reader walked by around 7:45 tonight and noted two tables were occupied so far ...

They'll likely need to add some greenery to the space a la DBGB to make it look a little more inviting...

Cherche Midi space on the market for new retail development on the Bowery at East Houston

[Via Google Streetview]

There's a new retail listing for 280-282 Bowery at East Houston.

The corner space is currently home to Keith McNally's bistro Cherche Midi while No. 282 houses Yasakart Restaurant Supply.

Here are details via RKF:

• At the nexus of SoHo, NoLIta, NoHo, The East Village and Lower East Side
• Steps from four major hotels: Bowery Hotel, Public Hotel, The Ace Hotel and CitizenM
• Across from Whole Foods Market, The New Museum and the International Center for Photography
• Second Floor space can be made available
• Lower Level can be converted to selling
• An additional 1,500 SF of Lower Level space can be made available in Space B

The rent is available upon request.

And here's the rendering showing the possibilities on this southwest corner of the Bowery and Houston...


[Image via RKF]

Rumors surfaced last month that McNally would be closing his four-year-old bistro. (A rep for McNally, who also runs the Odeon, Balthazar, Minetta Tavern and Augustine in the Beekman Hotel, confirmed to Grub Street that Cherche Midi will close in early June.)

This marks the second high-profile restaurant to close on the Bowery and East Houston since last August. Daniel Boulud shut down DBGB Kitchen and Bar after eight years in the Avalon Bowery complex between First Street and Houston.

If success restaurateurs like McNally and Boulud can't make these corners work... then what? An EVG reader left this comment on the previous Cherche Midi post:

My prediction for the gentrified Bowery, chain restaurants (as in Chipotle and Shake Shack, some run of the mall shops which most New Yorkers have never heard of, and all this surrounded by high end luxury condos. This is what the lack of urban planning and unleashed developer money brings.

You will now be able to enjoy your Joey Ramone on Joey Ramone Place

Peels, home to the Joey Ramone and situated on Joey Ramone Place, received the OK from the CB3/SLA committee Monday night to put out a sidewalk cafe. As Eater reported, "Peels' sidewalk cafe will be particularly large with an additional 46 seats outside."

46 seats? Will this make it the largest sidewalk cafe on the Bowery? Gemma, DBGB or Pulino's don't seem quite big enough for 46. I dunno. What do you think? Gemma does seem pretty big.

DBGB apparently parted with these chairs on the Bowery

Or else they are expanding their sidewalk cafe!

EVG regular Derek Berg spotted these early last evening...

Looking at DBGB's new decorative planters

I hope that they don't leave these outside unattended all night...

Week in Grieview

[Yesterday morning in Tompkins Square Park]

Stories posted on EVG this past week included...

Report: Icon Realty investigated in tenant harassment probe (Thursday)

Trees coming down for L train expansion on 14th Street (Monday)

New ownership taking over the Alphabet Lounge space on 7th and C (Friday)

When Webster Hall reopens, there might be a Moxy Hotel across the street (Monday)

I Am a Rent-Stabilized Tenant (Thursday)

About finding some solar eclipse glasses (Saturday)

CB3 OKs Triona's takeover of Croxley Ales on Avenue B (Tuesday)

The current home of The Stone is for rent on Avenue C (Thursday)

Confederate flag saga on Eighth Street (Saturday)

Out and About with Heidi (Wednesday)

The closed and for-rent restaurants along this part of 2nd Avenue (Wednesday)


[Going door to door on 2nd Avenue via Derek Berg]

Fair Folks & a Goat leaving 11th Street (Wednesday)

Ahimsa Garden is open on 10th Street (Monday)

Dojo Noodle House closed for now on Avenue B (Friday)

Full reveal at the incoming Starbucks on Avenue A and St. Mark's Place (Tuesday)

Report: 4th Street spa busted for alleged prostitution (Tuesday)

Physical therapy center set for former Dolphin Gym on 4th Street (Thursday)

So long to the great sinkhole at the 8th Street entrance to Tompkins Square Park (Tuesday)

Tasty Tasty won't be reopening on 14th Street (Monday)

Bye bye DBGB (Monday)

...and the podcaster paparazzi photo of the week is with Marc Maron, spotted Wednesday on Seventh Street ... he was in town for an appearance on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" ...


[Photo by Derek Berg]

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Speaking of the Bowery...

DBGB has a canopy!

EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition

[Mini UFO on Avenue B? Via Bobby Williams]

Christine Quinn threatens media who run ad she doesn't like (The Village Voice)

Police say this guy tried to steal a purse on East Eighth Street (CBS)

Another fucking FroYo chain invades NYC (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)

EV artist Stephen Tashjian (Tabboo!) has a new book out (Paper)

The East Village of a TV show called "Mad Men" versus the actual neighborhood in the 1960s (The New York Times)

Great old-timer Pizza Box closing on Bleecker (BoweryBoogie, Flaming Pablum)

TR Crandall Guitars now open on East Third Street (DNAinfo, previously on EV Grieve)

A tribute to 6 great diners (The Lo-Down)

Summer in the City, Spring edition (Slum Goddess)

DBGB hosting a pig roast featuring special guest Marky Ramone (Eater)

And, as we exclusively reported last night, it rained. And thundered!

Yeoooooooooow.
— evgrieve (@evgrieve) April 11, 2013

Also! Mark Benigno put together a composite of the lightning strikes...