Red Hot Szechuan, the Chinese restaurant on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope, whose fate has been the subject of much speculation since the steel grate was rolled down a few days ago and failed to open again, is definitely dead. Its demise has been confirmed although no cause of death has been offered, leaving Park Slopers with a hunger for hot and sour soup, and a dose of MSG, scrambling for delivery alternatives. Up next: the ‘what will take its place?’ game.–GL Inbox
Brookbit: Slope’s Red Hot is Totally Dead
February 28th, 2008 · 4 Comments
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1 Anonymous // Feb 28, 2008 at 7:53 am
so sad. Who has confirmed this? Did they give a reason?
2 Caroline // Feb 28, 2008 at 8:06 am
Uncle Liao’s probably won’t be taking its place– it’s been shuttered at least since Sunday. It’s a conspiracy, I tell you!
3 Dalton // Feb 28, 2008 at 10:55 am
Red Hot was my favorite Chinese restaurant, even after I left the Slope for Carroll Gardens 4 years ago, they continued to deliver to me. The quality did seem to go down over the last couple of years. Such a shame.
MSG? Really? I always thought of Red Hot as one of the healthier places that eschewed MSG.
4 Brenda from Flatbush // Feb 28, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Red Hot, the few times we tried it, was just another spigot for the hypothetical pipeline of brown sauce proposed by Calvin Trillin as an explanation for the clone-like mediocrity of NY’s typical (not-for-Chinese-people) Chinese restaurants. Can you imagine if somebody opened a place with authentic food as good as in a real Chinatown-for-Chinese-people restaurant, but with accessible menus and no Fear Factor? Lines around the block, Chowhound would explode, etc. So c’mon, capitalism: Make it so!