Closed for Business: Brooklyn Fish Camp, 162 5th Avenue
Friday, September 5, 2024 at 7:48AM 
After ten years, Brooklyn Fish Camp, the seafood restaurant on 5th between St. John's and Lincoln, has closed up shop. It hasn't been open since last weekend, and the now-defunct website says simply, "Our 10-year lease is up." A tipster told me that a rent increase was the reason for the closure, and indeed the new rent seems to be significantly higher than the previous one.
The restaurant, an offshoot of the West Village's popular Mary's Fish Camp, was put on the market briefly last February, but that appeared to be a false alarm. The asking price back then was $6,333 per month, which was reasonable for the location considering that there was enough room for a bar area and backyard. Now, the 1,200 square foot space is on the market for $10,500. "Suggested uses" on the listing include "restaurant, specialty food retail, retail clothing, shoes and accessories, cosmetics, jewelry."
Fish Camp wasn't cheap, but the food was consistently high-quality and the concept was novel for the neighborhood. They offered a decent happy hour and occasionally had fun specials like all-you-could-eat-and-drink peel-and-eat shrimp and beer, but apparently that wasn't enough to sustain it.
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Reader Comments (41)
We Need a RED LOBSTER!!!..... Or a Beef O'Gradys.
I'm in.
No surprise. 36 bucks for a lobster roll in Brooklyn this year when lobsters *retail* were 6.99 a pound.
Bummer
I hear Talde is opening a place in Jersey City. Too bad, I'll miss him here in Park Slope.
@Big Bird, it's a second location, the first one isn't going anywhere.
I will miss BFC and their amazing lobster rolls (they weren't $36 and even if they were, I'd gladly pay that)
The place had such a great vibe and will definitely be missed :(
I know we have Luke's coming at some point, but it's just not the same.
Thank you Mary for 10 great years! See ya'll in the West Village.
I don't think Luke's is coming anymore. That space had a for rent sign put back up a month ago.
I thought the same thing, so I asked them over Twitter. They said news would be coming in a month. Part of me wonders if it will be coming to the Terroir spot, but that's just me speculating, most likely incorrectly (yet how great would that be)
Really sucks. What really made BFC so great was the staff. Any many of them were consistently there for many years. Food always good, and yes it was pricey but you definitely got what you paid for. We always had a great time.
The heart and soul of our neighborhood is leaving. People are leaving the Slope in droves. Just today, I had several people telling me that they were walking around the Slope wondering, "who are these people and why are they in my neighborhood."
This is why I must confess that I left the Slope months ago. There are things I miss, but they will be gone soon as well. There's no way places like the Larder and Bogota and that other place stick around for the riffraff that now populates the neighborhood.
Goodbye.
At this point, I am starting to wonder of these landlords are absolutely stupid.... Don't they look at all the other empty storefronts and say themselves -- "gee, maybe I will give a modest increase to my current rent-paying tenants" This is getting out of hand - is there anything we can do?
Oh, come on. BFC had no heart or soul. It was the most over-priced and painfully mediocre seafood in the area. Sure, the rent increase probably didn't help but either did their lack of patrons on most nights of the week. I love seafood, but this place just didn't make any sense, and I'm surprised it lasted as long as it did.
Talde is closing??? That sucks.
@BaDaBing They're not closing, just opening a second location.
@Eddard NYC neighborhoods have been evolving long before you and will continue long after- they don't exist in bubbles of time for your taste. It's a sign of getting old Eddard when you romanticize the past and bemoan the present.
BFC hD a ten year run - that's long for a restaurant. And there's are plenty if new or soon to be openings on fifth-7th would be doing better if the landlords were smarter and they had an active BID but I eventually it will happen.
PS is routinely ranked one if the great neighborhoods not only of NYC but the country and despite the grousing which we are all guilty of at some point- it still is.
when was the last time you actually had a lobster roll there el presidente? When I went ~3 weeks ago the M/P was 36. A quick google shows numerous complaints/reviews of their lobster roll hovering between 30-37 bucks.
36, 32, 30, 28, 26, those are all too much to pay for a lobster roll anywhere considering the wholesale price of lobsters now.
Work permits are up in the window of 237space where Luke's is going. The Park Slope location is on Luke's website. Luke's is not going into the Terroir space.
@fafner The last time I actually had a lobster roll there was a few nights prior to its closing, as well as a few weeks before that.
Very sad to hear this. My husband and I have come to BFC with our best friends every summer for the past 7 years. My friend and I were often pregnant as we now have 5 kids between the two of us, and we spent many nights gorging on lobster rolls, perfect shoestring fries, and all of our favorite: Thai style whole fish smothered in cilantro, lemongrass, and cashews. We even came here after we moved away. Many many happy memories of delicious food and great laughs.
One more holiday shopping day left! Come by the store and we'll help you get the best products for fishing , If you really doesn't have everything!!
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