What Manhattan store/cafe do you wish had a Bklyn outpost?

bougiesis

Okay, we've got Fairway and Daffy's. But what other Manhattan-based stores or restaurants would do well in Brooklyn? My pick would be City Bakery, maybe in a big 2-story space somewhere mid-way between the slope and Carroll Gardens?

carmen

Whole foods. Yaffa cafe (kind of a small one )

In contrast, I wish Manhattan would get a Target so ours wasnt such a mess all the time from all the traffic

triebensee

New York Noodletown

But I really wish BZ Grill from Astoria would open up in the Slope

MOD

Brooklyn is NOT Manhattan.
I love my neighborhood, why would i want 'city' joints taking over the neighborhood?

livetotravel

Anything, anything at all by Batali

chitin

Mamacita wrote: Brooklyn is NOT Manhattan.
I love my neighborhood, why would i want 'city' joints taking over the neighborhood?

I agree, but if I had to choose:

Trader Joe's + liquor store
Grey's Papaya
Shake Shack
Any place that makes fries as good as Pastis

carnivore

*Grand Sichuan International
*Zabar's (not technically a chain, but they do have a bunch of spinoffs like Eli's, The Vinegar Factory, etc.)
*H&M (I think there's one in Kings Plaza, but one near here would do even better)
*Beard Papa
*Momofuku
...I need to think about this some more.


EDIT: And I second Great NY Noodletown.

livetotravel

Oh, yes! Shake Shack and Momofuku - yes, yes, yes!!!!

mookie wilson

strand.

daniel

Dumpling Man! Park Slope needs a few options for cheap and tasty fast food.

armchair_warrior

i want to see those new korean chicken joints.

caseopele

Flexichick wrote: I agree, but if I had to choose:

Trader Joe's + liquor store

Traitor! *shakes fist in your general direction* :P

telecomms95

caseopele wrote: [quote=Flexichick]I agree, but if I had to choose:

Trader Joe's + liquor store

Traitor! *shakes fist in your general direction* :P

Hey, I'm not above some 2 Buck Chuck.....although I am starting to feel the love at some other ::::cough cough:::::neighborhood wine stores :-)

homeowner

Flexichick wrote: [quote=Mamacita]Brooklyn is NOT Manhattan.
I love my neighborhood, why would i want 'city' joints taking over the neighborhood?

I agree, but if I had to choose:

Trader Joe's + liquor store
Grey's Papaya
Shake Shack
Any place that makes fries as good as Pastis

There is now a Fulton Papaya on Fulton and Nostrand. Has anyone tried it? It appears to be a knockoff of the real thing.

caseopele

Totally OT but I know you like Slope Cellars. We had a guy come in twice trying to use a fake credit card in the past month. He likes to hit the wine stores so I called most of the ones on 7th to let them know. The guy I spoke to at Slope Cellars was a total sweetheart, I can see why you like them.

agitpunkt

I'd love to see more record shops/book stores. I know they keep failing here, so obviously something is working against them (rent, most likely), but I'd love to see an Other Music, Kim's Underground, Strand, Unoppressive Non-Imperialist Bargain Books, or someplace like ST. Marks Books.

The less money I have to give to Manhattan, the better.

gooner

Les Halles
Joe's Shanghai
Trader Joes
Greys Papaya

Also, I hope Manhattan gets its own Target so they leave ours alone and I hope they don't open anymore Brooklyn Industries in Manhattan. If Manhattan starts dressing more like Brooklyn, surely we are all doomed.

belzjm

h&h bagels
apple store
jamba juice
a second for beard papa
filene's basement
loehmanns

amyargh

Lush
H&M
Gobo

andrewroofpainting

what is beard papa?

whyfi

Flexichick wrote: what is beard papa?

cream puffs.


mmmmmmm....

belzjm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beard_Papa's



SOOOOO good!!

there's on on the upper west side in the 70's on broadway...

belzjm

also a camper shoe store would be nice.

i wouldn't mind seeing some more places in general to buy men's clothing and shoes.
so many boutiques for women in park slope, but some of us men would rather spend our dollars here in the neigthborhood too!!

brooke lynn knight

The Children's Place or any other store where you can buy regular, normal, non-frou-frou, non-cunning, non-cutesy, non-ironic, non-postmodern, un-hip clothes for toddlers. Not everybody wants to pay $50 for a tissue-thin onesie emblazoned with a Mouse on Mars logo or the cover of "London Calling" or whatnot. (My two-year-old turns out to be a Steely Dan fan, anyway -- that wouldn't give him ANY street cred at the Tot Lot.)

[eta: I realize it's not Manhattan-based, but there are locations in Manhattan. And my comment still stands.]

longtimesloper

Would love a Trader Joe's

richhazel

Subject: 3 things

Paragon Sports
Veselka
Better Burger

Then I wouldn't need to leave Brooklyn on the weekends.

new2hood

children's place and beard papa, totally.

greenmarket during the week.

new2hood

second beard papa and children's place.

and a greenmarket on fridays.

jb34

I'm so glad I'm not a cream puff kinda girl as I already have enough vices without beard papa

caseopele

Ok, I'd never heard of this Beard Papa before but now I totally want one here. Mmmmm, cream puffs....

Oh, and there are 7 Children's Places in Brooklyn according to their website, including one at the Atlantic Center.

apollonia666

Congee Village
Babeland
Strand and Beard Papa -- seconded, thirded, whatevered!

And I know there's a Nyonya in Sunset Park, but I would LOOOVE it if there were one closer to this neck o' the woods.