More Details Emerge About Park Slope Restaurant Space

Not just any Park Slope restaurant, the Park Slope Restaurant, the diner on Fifth Avenue between 11th and 12th Streets that closed after 36 years in December 2010 and merged with Green Kitchen a few doors down. I dropped by Green Kitchen the other day and had a brief chat with an employee there, who was able to give me a few scraps of information about what will be coming into the plywooded space, which has been under construction for over six months.

He told me that the space is no longer owned by Green Kitchen's owner (as it was originally), so there's no affiliation there, but the new owners have been keeping them in the loop. Even though they'll serve food, it'll be closer to a bar than a restaurant, he said. The food served will be primarily comprised of appetizers (or most likely "small plates," in the parlance of our times), and, most intriguing of all, it will be French.

So let's see where it goes from there.

Comments

[chow'son]

I long for the day when every storefront in Park Slope will be a bar or a restaurant. Except for those that are nail salons, banks, real estate agencies and high-end provision stores.

[deanstret]

Not sure what else you'd rather have. You listed all of the things that make up a neighborhood in addition to food stores (of which we have tons) a post office, kids places and bike shops. The neighborhood is about as nice as you can get in terms of what it has to offer. Most people I know never have to leave the neighborhood for their goods and services. We are lucky.

But here you are complaining again. Now under a different screen name.

[greenwood]

That sounds like a nice upgrade for a long strip of 99 cent stores and nail salons.