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Suddenly, Quite the Excess on Essex Street
Long an afterthought in the Lower East Side bar and restaurant scene, Essex Street is suddenly, out of nowhere, experiencing its 15 minutes of fame. As one clever Eater tipster has it, "Is Essex Street becoming the new restaurant row? Excess Street, anyone?"
1) 133 Essex Street: We can now report that the new, seemingly unnamed bar from the Fat Baby/Spitzer's Corner owners, about which Thrillist offered some fresh intel earlier today, actually opened for business last night. From an Eater source: "It wasn't pushed, barely even to friends and family. It's definitely not ready but it had something to do with the upstairs tenants being assholes (the 'fake signers' accusers). Bathrooms have no stalls or locks; bar is barely stocked; country music was a-playin; bull is definitely there but seems to be lacking cushioning underneath, unless thats part of the deal—death. So, as of last night, its open. Not sure of the name, thought it was Evan Ford, guess not." Developing...
Next Week: Neighborhood Watch, North Tribeca
On Monday, in conjunction with Curbed, we're kicking off our first Neighborhood Watch week, in which we turn our eyes and lenses on a particular microswath of this city. Up first, as previously mentioned: North Tribeca (north of No. Moore). Among other goodies, brace yourself for a first look at Drew's new place.
Related Eater Reader Query: which one restaurant or bar in North Tribeca could you not stand to see close? Drop us an email with a few sentences about your favorite, and we'll compile the best here. Other Eater-related tales from North Tribeca welcomed, too—your favorite DeNiro run-in, perhaps?
· Neighborhood Watch Wants You [~E~]
Life and Death of the Great American Clinton Street
With 71 Clinton set to close its doors forever on March 11 (keep those contest entries coming), what does the future hold for the Clinton Street Food Court? We touched on that question in last week's chatwrap, but leave it to neighborhood resident and blogger Felix Salmon to break it down in extraordinary detail.
Every Clinton Street joint, from WD-50 to the place called PIZZA, gets a Felix writeup; the hangman serves as the indicator of how soon the Grim Reaper (or Steven Kamali) is gonna come a knockin'.
· Clinton Street Deathwatch [Felix Salmon]
Vanderbilt Avenue: The Next Smith Street
Where, one asks, might one invest in the culinary colonization of Brooklyn? Smith Street is long since blown; Court Street too. And forget Park Slope. (No, seriously: forget it.)
Which leaves Prospect Height's Vanderbilt Avenue. The New York Sun's Paul Lukas is a believer, nominating it as Brooklyn's next hot eating strip in a recent article: "All the pieces are in place: a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood, a commercial strip with plenty of cheap storefronts, and a paucity of decent dining options. And just as Patois got the ball rolling on Smith Street and Al Di La planted the flag on Fifth Avenue, Vanderbilt Avenue has Aliseo, the quirky Italian osteria that opened last year and, like all pioneering eateries, stuck out like a sore thumb in its benighted surroundings."
Also nominated as worthy of a look, despite a Bergen Street address: new-ish tapaspub* Beast (photo above), of which Lukas notes, "The burger shows the place for what it is: a pleasant neighborhood hangout."
· Next Stop: Prospect Heights [NYSun]
· Vanderbilt Ave. is the new 5th Ave is the new Smith St. [Daily Heights]
*Inevitable evolution of the gastropub?
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