Is Delicious on the Slope, on President Street in Park Slope, finished being delicious? We’re not certain of the answer, but a GL reader emails with the following question and info:
Do you have an info. on the restaurant Delicious on the Slope on President St. between 4th and 5th? We just moved in down the street and haven’t had a chance to check it out yet, and maybe we never will. Starting a week ago or so, the windows have been covered in brown paper and the sign says “closed.” That’s about it. Just wondering if it’s out of business or just closed for renovations or what. It’s an odd place.
Papered windows and a “closed” sign generally don’t bode well for a bright future, but a reader may know if it’s a temporary detour or a permanent one. Their website is still up in any case.
12 responses so far ↓
1 Jack // Sep 8, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Don’t know anyone who will miss them. Their prices are really jacked up for what they serve. Especially in Park Slope where you can easily walk to any other place that serves the same type of food better and has been doing it better for years.
Maybe they need to adjust the menu for reality?
2 Gari N. Corp // Sep 8, 2008 at 2:51 pm
Can we start calling this the Park Slope Intersection Of Death? We’ve had Oak, just up towards 6th (SE corner), recently end its fruitless quest to sell accessories from a location with nish foot traffic, we’ve had the fiasco of the real estate sign above the community garden (NW corner), which provided us with many special moments of Park Slope sanctimoniousness. And we’ve had the soap opera of the 230 Fifth (SW corner) restaurant format changes, which have brought us Night & Day, Biscuit, and now Lookout Hill in the last four years. Difficult to see how Mezcals (NE) or the Cat Clinic (SW) could follow them down but I think the troll that lives under President and Fifth is scheming as we speak.
3 anonymous // Sep 8, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Do you know anyone who doesn’t live on the block who was aware of this joint? Face it, if you’re not on the Avenue, you don’t have visibility. Some may argue that Moim is “off-avenue” and I agree, but the review in the Times, the unique (for the neighborhood) cuisine and local word of mouth has made Moim a popular destination.
I think we’re just at the beginning of a Park Slope restaurant shakedown. With rising prices and people more careful about how they spend their dining out bucks, the less popular and mediocre joints should start sounding a death knell.
4 Christine_Slope // Nov 7, 2008 at 5:25 pm
Oh My God!!! This is the best dinner I ever had in years, and few blocks away from my house, I found this cute restaurant passing by from the train station, I got attracted from the candles and the romantic ambiance so i got in, the server was the owner and everything starting from the bread, the butter, going to the best chicken soup since my grandma’s soup, then I had the COD fish, Oh My God, just amazing, you have to try this place, you wont regret t, the greatest food in park slope! and the prices not even over $ 50.00 including desert and tea…
5 Adam // Nov 7, 2008 at 6:31 pm
Christine_Slope is a shill. Same person under a different name left the exact same comment on my Flickr photo of this place.
6 Christine_Slope // Nov 9, 2008 at 10:59 pm
Yes it was Steve my husband, just accept it we love the new Delicious on the Slope, so what?
7 Christine_Slope // Nov 10, 2008 at 2:06 pm
I just don’t understand you guys, you are seated in your fat asses then you talk like you own the whole area, wake up! you didn’t even eat in this place yet… who are you to publish anything wrong about any place you don’t know !!! Your negativity is very stupid, we need to support this young guys or whoever is trying really hard to build the park slope restaurant industry… maybe you are really happy with McDonalds or the typical bad options you been having for all this years…
8 Nisa // Nov 15, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Wow, it sucks that this thread took a bad turn. but seriously guys, you have to try this place if you are in the area. Their food is mind blowing and the prices are great! I hope the new owner succeeds. They have a crazy eclectic menu (Italian, Spanish, Mexican) and that was what kept me from trying it at first, but I’m really glad I did. Everything I’ve ordered there has been superb (if you like steak you are in for a treat) . Don’t leave without trying their tiramisu!
9 ThorNY // Nov 20, 2008 at 4:14 pm
“Delicious” is under new management after closing for several months. Too bad. The original management was inexperienced but very involved in the kitchen and dedicated to serving some of the best dishes in the area–certainly the best felafel and pastami as well as Israeli specialties like a schnitzel that took a long time to come out to the table but was worth the wait. And the prices were on the low side. Now the menu is the same bland uninspired burgers and pasta that sells so well in this hood and requires nothing more than an MBA to fabricate and run. The original owner also made the best cup of cappuccino in Park Slope, far cry from the nasty concoction I was served today at the ‘new’ Delcious in an oversized cup with weak espresso, foamy milk with no body, and unasked for cinnamon sprinkled on top (I detest the stuff–scraped it off with a spoon). I left most of it untouched after the server/mgt decided to clean the tables in the otherwise empty restaurant with some noxious spray about a yard from my nose. If he was trying to get rid of me or make me nauseous, he succeeded on both counts. And this experience only cost a total of $4.28. And so another interesting offbeat business has been replaced by forgettable fare and totally conventional ambiance. Internet commentators on the original restaurant dismissed it based on the name and a glance inside, without even sampling the menu. I bet the same pretentious food snobs who like their menus safe and mediocre will make this version a success.
10 Doc Robert // Nov 21, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Suddenly just steps away from my professional office comes along a uniquely good restaurant with the feel of a casual eatery and the quality of a fine dining experience. Just a tiny bit of the beaten track (four buildings down from the corner of President Street and 5th Avenue), I have had superb meals, and since I work just seconds away, I’ve sampled breakfast, lunch, dinner, and in between. Luis, the new manager/proprietor has selected the finest meats, with no compromises, and the steak and burgers are as good as the best I’ve sampled in Park Slope. Lots of variety, everything tastes terrific, the service is attentive and the place is quiet and warm. Highly recommended.
11 Christine_Slope // Nov 21, 2008 at 6:33 pm
OMG you must have a really bitter and frustrated life, you are complaining for a cup of coffee you said you didn’t drink because the cinnamon? and then you are complaining for the smell of a table cleaner someone was using while you were there?… that is nothing objective to complain at, you must have personal issues with this new place, maybe you were the former owner?… former investor? or just a bitter and frustrated person who loves complain about stupid stuff like this.
Don’t worry we won’t cry in your funeral neither
ATTE
The rest of the world!
12 pogo747 // Jan 19, 2009 at 10:53 pm
Had lunch there this Saturday and would never have found it if not for the placard placed on the corner of the street. We tried to go to Aunt Suzie’s first, but oddly, they were only open for dinner on Saturdays.
Some of the above posters sound bitter and angry at the world, or have a personal vendetta against this restaurant, which I don’t understand.
Delicious is tasty and reasonably priced, with adequate portions (I like the jumbo-sized Cokes). The decor is nice (you can bring a date here) and the owner is friendly. I had a seared tuna salad and my friends had baked eggs and a steak sandwich. All of us enjoyed our orders and had a great overall dining experience. We’d definitely come back and recommend this place to friends.