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Terroir Says a Witty Hello to the Neighborhood
Thursday, August 30, 2012 at 10:17AM 
Via Terroir's Twitter feed, the restaurant's management posted this sign in the window of the soon-to-open establishment, which should be up and running "like really soon" in the space last home to Great Lakes, on Fifth Avenue and First Street. The tongue in cheek note certainly proves that they're no strangers to hyperbole:
"Yes, this is the former home of Great Lakes, one of the greatest dive bars in NYC history... Super cheap beers. Super cool juke box. Super cool regulars. Super smell of stale cigarettes. Super amounts of Xmas lights. Super good time!
Terroir Park Slope will pay homage to Great Lakes by... uhmmmm... well... okay, remembering the good times. Instead, we will serve Marco's veal ricotta meatballs (the best balls to ever pass your lips), and fried stuff (who doesn't like fried stuff) and lots of pork (__ to a pig in effect) and wine and beer. And we will wear Revolutionary War garb to remember the Battle of Brooklyn (General Howe, go to Hell!)"
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Reader Comments (6)
Chacun a son gout.
Witty? I guess if you're a blogger and hoping to score seats at a soft opening...
Oh, but I digress.
Anyone who is tired of these "please approve of us, oh great neighborhood" signs can appreciate this.
Where else in new york do you find new businesses feeling obligated to post their local credentials before opening?
Everywhere, Polhemus. You find this in every corner of NYC. It's no different from a book launch, a movie launch or other such launch in 2012.
More importantly, Terroir is the best wine bar in NYC and I'm happy to have the first one in Brooklyn just a few blocks away.
Who doesn't love a good use of the word garb?
And if they actually wear Revoulutionary War clothes, that will crack me up.
Dear Janie,
I am presently washing my Revolutionary War garb in the Gowanus, hoping to have the red in my pantaloons radiate and the blue in my kerchief sing...the wig is where I am having problems.
As soon as we open, we re-visit the Battle of Brooklyn with the good guys winning...and a lot more beer consumed!
Yeah, their other place is good, but I don't know anyone that doesn't wish it were still Great Lakes. This sign won't change that. (and now with Pork Slope across the street, fried things and pork is already pretty redundant). Plus, no liquor?