Konditori - Swedish Cafe on Washington

A coffee/bagel place with the same name has 3 existing locations in Brooklyn:

https://www.google.com/#q=Konditori+brooklyn

However, they have not hit my radar as applying for an initial DOHMH inspection.

Does the work permit say Restaurant?

Most under-the-radar business opening on Washington Avenue ever. Could see past the brown paper that someone was doing the interior nicely - but no liquor license application = zero press.

Great thing is that less than a year ago this building was the abandoned, rotting, caught-in-a-legal-fight building in an otherwise well-preserved block. The new owner did a gut reno, added a rooftop room - and scored a high-class commercial tenant all without making much noise or raising neighbors' expectations.

I think Sit and Wonder will be fine - they have a loyal clientele and lines out the door on weekends. I wonder if this bumps Coffee Bites and/or Washington Bagel Café (bless them) up a rung or two on the Deathwatch thread though?

I believe you have taken a pic before whynot. This was the storefront that was the giant chalk board during the Washington Rocks festival last year.

696 Washington Ave. Konditori website is not yet updated to show the new location.

http://www.konditorinyc.com/index.html

Could a new Hooters location be lurking behind a construction wall somewhere in our midst, just waiting to be exposed one morning?

whynot_31 said:

If I may say so, this is getting a little nuts.

And right on cue, Brokelyn links to a piece from The Awl about coffee and gentrification: http://www.theawl.com/2013/10/what-does-your-coffee-say-about-you-and-is-it-something-terrible

“This is a story that could be told through a thousand commodities,” he told me. “The coffee economy is an echo of the colonial relationships of power that led up to it. And you can draw a parallel with gentrification, where you have a colonization of low-income urban spaces by high-income professionals. It’s a different dynamic, but an expression of the same politics of inequality.”

Re: konditori

I've been to the one in PS tons of times and it's one of my favorites nowadays (Gorilla now has too many strollers.) Good coffee, sweet down to earth servers, indie/alt background music that is not offensive (not too loud/annoying) low key, unpretentious, vibe, great for bringing in your laptop and getting a little work done. My guess is it will do well.