NEW FOOD ESTABLISHMENT ON 7TH AVE

---inexpensive dumplings, roast duck, scallion pancakes, but NOT ANOTHER vietnamese banh mi place!! So over that.

A breakfast to go spot: breakfast burritos! Why don't they do this on the east coast? West coast has tons of breakfast burritos! Malted shakes, breakfast sandwiches (I just went to Shopsin's for breakfast yesterday and I'm dying for another eggs, jack cheese and chorizo on garlic bread cibbatta) .. I'm not talking a bagel place.

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Salad. A real salad bar. So many of us work at home and would like a decent salad for lunch but don't have time/ingredients to make it or need a break for a few minutes to run out and get something.

Do you specialize in anything in particular?

It'd be nice to have a regular Vietnamese restaurant like the ones on U street. I want some Bo Luc Lac.

But what would be really awesome is a good old-fashioned bakery. A real bakery where bread is made and baked daily. Is there even a bakery left in the Slope?

Landjägers!

please, open a place that specializes in landjägers. they are amazing, but american society has not made a place for them. you sell landjägers and i guarantee i will ride my bike to your store each day for a snack. i'll even volunteer to hold a sign out front to bring in business so that you are successful and i can continue to eat them.

Do one thing, and do it really well. For example, barbecue. Or roast pig. Even better, a full-blown German sausage-and-beer hall. Be anything but run of the mill. Park Slope Eatery just opened right around there and can serve all run of the mill needs.

Brooklyn Bread is a cafe, not a bakery. I don't think they even call themselves a bakery, it just looks like one and has bread in the name. They usually mostly have pastries. I'd like a real bakery where that's all they do, or mostly what they do.

Never heard of Brownstone Bread, will have to look that up.

How important is it that you make money on this business? I'm not sure a bakery would make you rich.

Nothing wrong with a German sausage and beer hall, but it sounds like the place is going to be close to Steinhoff.

Aside from a bakery, what I'd really like is for someone to take over Brooklyn Flipsters and turn it into a regular bar.

I second the salad vote. I'd love a good salad place. And a place that's not absurdly expensive. I'm probably in the minority here because I work in South Slope but don't live here, but I can tell you that my fellow office-mates are always lamenting that we a) are running out of affordable options, and b) there's not really a place that has good, filling salads.

VMC515, what do you think the local market will support?

For the strip of 7th Avenue you want, you might want to study the evolution of the 9th Street/7th Avenue restaurant that began in 2001 as the Minnow, serving New American seafood and burgers. In 2005, I think, it expanded into its neighboring lot as Bar Minnow, adding more casual seafood and burgers. But then its owner bailed and it became the more downmarket Brooklyn Burger Bar in 2006, closing two years later. Both were surfing the food trends of the time.

This year, on the corner of 8th Street and 7th Avenue, the Greek restaurant Okeanos opened half a block south from Istanbul Park, which had opened only last year. Maybe ethnic hostility is the new trend.

There are definitely more grab-and-go food stores lately in the mid-Slope stretch of 7th and 5th Avenues, with even delis that once did little meal prep now offering more sandwiches and snacks. You'll have competition.

An authentic Italian Deli sounds great, VMC- just make sure everything's sliced to order and not sitting out. Maybe traditional panini too (the real kind, not the generic ones in every take-out place). Would love a place to get a real panini with some bresaola, aged pecorino, and arugala. Some home-made soups would also be good.

I second Gig- never compromise on quality! Be a foodie.

Does "Press" not fit that bill (panini-wise) already? (I don't go very often, so it's a honest question)

VMC, the best advice I have is keep it simple and specialize. Don't try to be a deli, soup, bakery, cheese store and whatever that also sells falafal/pastries or something.

One more hope for PS: I want a Defontes here. Sooooo goooood. But Red Hook is too far to go for a lunch break. :-(

I'm not a big fan of Press- something about the food there just strikes me as sloppy, and it's really pricey for what you get. I agree though- keep it simple and specialize in doing a couple things really really well. Be the best and what you do, and keep the prices down.

I love the idea of a casual, grab-and-go kind of place. I think the important thing, esp if you're going to be located south of 10th St, is to not end up with a bunch of built-in competitors. Basically, you've already got great coffee (Grumpy), loads of banh mi (Hancos and Henrys), pretty decent sandwiches and wraps (Naidre's), and plenty of baked goods/breads/cheeses/cured meats (Union Market, Grab).

I think we're really lacking when it comes to salads. A place that has a salad bar or a chopped salad place would be most welcome. My only request: for the love of god, please be creative with your toppings and offerings. Fresh and healthy: quinoa salads, whole grain salads, bean salads, tofu and the like would get me coming back over and over. Whole Foods does this pretty well at their self-serve salad bars. I think panini would also work well in this type of place... I agree that it should be simple but high-quality ingredients. Something inspired by Eataly, for example.

On a totally separate track, I'd love to have some good, quick, casual Mexican. Tacos, burritos and the like. Note that I'm NOT talking about a place like Moe's that slops stuff onto your burrito. Thinking more along the lines of a good Northern California burrito joint.

And, because I can't let this opportunity pass, for the love of god, please pick a good name for your place and design the establishment with an eye towards creating a warm and welcoming place. We've seen too many places die after a half-baked concept, a bad name, or an unwelcoming space.

Best of luck!