There’s one brand new restaurant opening in the Burg we want to note and a couple of things to get caught up on:
1) Fiore is supposed to be opening today at 284 Grand Street (above). It’s an Italian restaurant that traces it lineage to Baci & Abracci up the block. We haven’t seen the menu but items that have been noted run heavily toward seafood. Some entrees include orata with veggies in shellfish lime broth, salmon with artichokes prosciutto and olives, monkfish with roasted garlic in a lemon preserve caper sauce and salmon Steak with olive pesto. There’s also a very nice sounding spinach ravioli in brown butter sage sauce. We caught a glimpse inside yesterday and it looked very, very nice.
2) Miranda, another restaurant leaning heavily on an Italian menu is now open on Berry Street at N. 9, across the street from Silent H. Photo below.
3) Another Bedford Avenue bodega/corner store has undergone a morph into an upscale deli/food store, the second in recent months to go upscale. The results of the change at Bedford Fruits & Vegetables are in the bottom photo.
4) The Endless Summer Taco Truck is said to have set up shop at Bedford Ave. and N. 7 Street. We didn’t see it yesterday, but word of its existence has been widely emailed around.
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1 Anonymous // Jan 7, 2008 at 5:47 pm
THERE HAS BEEN SO MANY RESTURANTS/BARS IN wILLIAMSBURG, ESPECIALLY SOUTHISDE THAT HAVE OPENED, HAD SOME INTIAL TRAFFIC BUT NEVER BUILT UP ENOUGH REGULAR BIZ TO PAY THE RENTS AND OVERHEAD AND LAST B/W 1-2YRS ONLY TO CLOSE….lIKE ALL THE CONDO PROJECTS,,,START…STOP FOR YEAR, START AGAIN GO BANKRUPT SELL AND NEW OWNER STARTS AGAIN ONLY TO RUN INTO THEIR OWN FINANCIAL PROBLEMS AND CITY CODE VIOLATIONS…..THERE JUST IS NOT THE VOLUME—NO LUNCH BIZ LITTLE WEEK NITE BIZ AND NOT GANGBUSTERS WEEKEND TO MAKE UP THE DIFF. IF THEY CAN AFFORD TO BE IN THE RED FOR 5 YEARS THEN HOPE THE CONDOS GET BUILT (TO CODE AND HENCE ABLE TO BE SOLD) AND NYC DOESN’T END UP IN A BIG RECESSION B/C WALL STREET LOSTS ALOT OF ITS HIGH PROFIT BUSINESSES AND THE YUPPIE WS CONDO BUYERS FOR THE BURG THAT ALL THE DEVELOPERS THOUGHT WOULD COME IN DROVES CONTINUES TO DRY UP AND GO AWAY AND NOT COMING BACK
1.) Fiore is supposed to be opening today at 284 Grand Street (above).
2) Miranda, anoth
er restaurant leaning heavily on an Italian menu is now open on Berry Street at N. 9, across the street from Silent H. Photo below.