Prospect Pl/Classon Drug Dealers

French, baby. One needs to live divine, in lovely settings, high as a kite.

well there's already a thai place at st. marks & washington, and i bet the new wine bar opening up at st. johns & classon will be french bistro-esque. so just for variety, i'll vote for a pasta place, there's not many italian places around these parts of CH.

as for the drugs, someone seriously needs to hold my hand one day and give me a tour. i live around the corner and NEVER see anything shady, and i go to that corner bodega like all the time.

i see three votes , what you talking about.

Français bistro s'il vous plaît!

That was totally uncalled for.

And unnecessary.

And

Anonymous wrote: But the hipsters from the Jewish hospital far out number the addicts.

If you were to draw a Venn diagram, I have a feeling there'd be a lot of overlap between those sets.

though if it were good thai, like sripraphai in queens or an isaan style place, i would vote for that! but we dont really need another generic brooklyn thai place since there is one on washington.

Please, please NOT French or Thai! I second the idea for good bread, sandwiches, salads, and coffee. Good coffee!!

Subject: Re: Suggestion

Guestq wrote: I've seen/participated in the transformation of PHeights over the last dozen years from the lesser sibling of Park Slope to the rapidly gentrifying yuppster/hipsterville it is today with mixed feelings.

How about something that would be intergrative vs. drive a further social wedge between the folks that made it a nice community and got rid of the drug dealers in th first place vs. solely for newbie interlopers with no appreciation for the neighborhood's past. Another french bistro? Please.. they're a dime a dozen in Park Slope. How about a little imagination and creativity.

OK- Guest. Not that I agree with you but, what do you have in mind? Any why on earth would a bistro (french, italian, or otherwise) drive a "social wedge" exactly? Your request for something "integrative" is vague. And when you mention the "newbie interlopers"- who are you talking about? People who hear about a good place to go eat, they know nothing of the neighborhood, so they're not welcome? What the frig is that? People have to have a history of the neighborhood so that they can fully appreciate what seeing, eating, drinking??? :roll:

Yea, that's what I figured. And I really don't think that anyone would be opposed to it necessarily. However, we have a TON of Caribbean food around here. Actually, maybe a Caribbean-fusion might not be so bad. I would just hope for something "not ghetto."

saje is caribbean fusion -- or at least, it opened as caribbean/asian fusion. seems more upscale caribbean these days. miss that jerk unagi.

it's likely a good business idea to have a broad customer base by aiming to please both newcomers and old-timers. i doubt upscale caribbean will do that, though, since there are plenty of caribbean places around already.

it would be interesting to know the true breadth of chavella's customer base. they're always very busy with eat-in, take out, and delivery. i'm guessing that low prices, high quality, and generally familiar food appeals to people of all sorts of demographic categories.

just learn the lesson of deacon blue: if you want to charge more than other places around here, the food has to be GOOD. (poor ol' deacon blue. i liked them, but their quality tanked, and suddenly the prices seemed absurd. and then chavella's opened....)