Park Slope Eats & Drinks: The Upcoming Openings We’re Looking Forward To
It may not feel like it, but fall is coming — the perfect time to look forward to some delicious openings! Here’s a little preview of what you should be looking for around our neighborhood. The list will surely expand, but these are a few of the places that people have been hungry for.
Ramen Yebisu
52 7th Avenue, between St. Johns and Lincoln Place
The Williamsburg restaurant offers Sapporo-style ramen from Hokkaido, and we’re excited to know they’re expanding to 7th Avenue. The ramen is seafood-based, and it has a thicker noodle than the usual ramen fare.
Blue Bottle
203 7th Avenue, at the corner of 3rd Street
Blue Bottle still touts its tradition of getting coffee to customers 48 hours after being roasted. We’ve been waiting for some time for the cafe to open, and we’re looking forward to their New Orleans-style iced coffee, with chicory in the blend.
Chipotle
185 7th Avenue, between 1st and 2nd Streets
You probably don’t need us to tell you about the massive burritos that will come with the opening of Chipotle. Rumors of the Mexican chain coming to 7th Avenue skipped around a bit, but it seems solid now, and we’ll let you know when the opening takes place. Meanwhile, you can familiarize yourself with their nutrition calculator to count those calories.
City Subs
82 5th Avenue, between St. Mark’s and Warren
City Subs: Is it the reincarnation of City Sub, a neighborhood favorite that closed on Bergen Street a while back? Some people (ourselves included) have been begging for their sandwiches, so the potential re-opening can’t come soon enough.
Parm
210 Flatbush Avenue, between Bergen and Deans Streets
The meatballs are coming, the meatballs are coming! We’ve been waiting since last year to get a taste of the sandwich shop what had its first successful opening on Mulberry Street in Manhattan. The projected opening of last fall came and went, and we’re still chomping at the bit for amazing baked clams and spicy broccoli rabe. We reached out to Parm, and they told us that “at the moment we do not have a specific date, but we are trying our hardest to open up.”
Insa
328 Douglass Street, between 3rd and 4th Avenues
If you want your Korean fix, you’re not going to have to schlep to K-Town anymore. The owners of Red Hook’s The Good Fork (391 Van Brunt Street between Coffey and Van Dyke Streets) are planning a massive restaurant (where else but Gowanus?) with karaoke as well. You know you want to have dumplings and sing Journey. Don’t stop believin’.
The Unnamed Sushi Bar
166 Flatbush Avenue, between 5th Avenue and Pacific Street
So intriguing that it doesn’t yet have a name, this new restaurant is being billed as a “speakeasy sushi bar” by the owners of the Michelin-starred Sushi Azabu in TriBeCa. The Barclays Center area is about to get quite a one-two punch of sushi with the recent opening of Wasan (440 Bergen Street, between 5th and Flatbush Avenues).
If you notice anything we missed that is opening, let us know in the comments below. And as always, if you see some changes in businesses in the neighborhood, shoot us tips at editor@bklyner.com.