New booze and food in Brooklyn

On Saturday, former Gage & Tollner, "New York's Oldest restaurant" - (but recently a TGIFridays) looked like this:



But by Tuesday night, the lights were on and new curtains were up. It looked like this:



And this:



(Harlem's Amy Ruth's was supposed to open its downtown Brooklyn outpost in February.)

In Red Hook on Saturday, former the Pioneer bar looked like this:



Last night, they served me a beer. It's now Brooklyn Ice House. It looks pretty much exactly the way it did when it was Pioneer. The kitchen opens next week. (And I assume the garden will reopen eventually, but it was closed clased night.)

Labels: brooklyn, nyc, pictures, restaurants

- posted by Amy @ 5/13/2008 10:35:00 PM