Elementi formerly Snooky's

i agree nothing on the menu wowed me. You can get those types of entrees anywhere else in the hood. Upscale? Not so much.

quijibo wrote: 7th avenue is dead! long live 4th avenue!

Yeah baby! Represent!
Avoid Elementi and head over to 4th ave. Grab some breakfst at Don Pepe! Get some jerk chicken at Dean St Grill. Have some of the best pizza in the nabe at Cherry Tree!

Wow, sounds like the Olive Garden is arriving in PS just in time!

owns the myr makeup place on 7th tiny space once held by fratelli ravioli.

I swear this is the last thing I'm going to say about this. It's really sad that Jose is stuck with this guy as a partner. Every person I've spoken to that has had bad things to say about Elementi has not said one bad thing about Jose. He's been a part of the neighborhood for years and has always been a great guy. His partner on the other hand pissed off a good number of people in PS that have lived here for years. Drove business away before they were even open by being very unfriendly. When someone suggested they put a sign up while they were renovating to let people know what was happening he said (paraphrasing here), "I don't want those people to know what's happening." Why would you turn people away when you're starting a new business? The people that considered themselves part of the Snooky's crowd aren't just the ones who went there every day. So by saying they didn't want the Snooky's crowd there, they alienated more people than they thought.

Imagine this scenario: I move into my current apartment in CH, make no effort to speak to my neighbors, show nothing but disdain for the people who've lived here for a while, and basically act like a complete snob. I then wonder why no one is happy I'm here and people are bad mouthing me!

If the owners of Elementi think I'm the only one saying anything bad then they are sadly mistaken. Although there are new people moving into PS every day, this is a neighborhood that's a little more close knit than most people think. I feel for Jose, I really do, he's a nice guy who worked his way up from a bus boy to where he is now. For that reason, I wish Elementi success.

elementi sounds god awful.
thanks caseopele.
i have walked by it several times, and it just looks so generic and boring!
no flavor.........just your average vanilla pseudo italian.
Cant anyone open an AMAZING Indian joint? I feel so deprived.

Caseopele.. Hold your tongue.. do not respond even though this thread goes on and on!!

I say that to remind myself that for various reasons it is better to just read on this forum than always respond..


Oh and I do remember that list of "gin mills" with a fondness but hey times have changed and there is nothing wrong with wanting to eat some fine food with the fruit of the grape (or the potatoe, or whatever)!!!!
For me.... the demise of Snoopy's, which stands out in my "old sloppy" consciousness makes me not want to frequent the new, improved replacement restaurant .. ANd.. it makes me sound like a recently moved in to the Slope person when I say... I think the restaurants on 5th Ave are more interesting..

So you're not a recent arrival veets? How long? Five years? Ten?

Wow, cool, tell me some stories about the old days......

I had diner here with a friend this evening. We found a great parking spot near Sante fee Grill and original plan was to eat there I eat there about 2 times a year.. it is ok.. last time I ate there with this friend ..it was quiet so we had a nice memory. Tonight it was LOUD. We moved down the ave...


Elemente was all but desolate on this wed night at around 9pm.. well they close at 10 so if there were customers we missed them. We encountered one table for 8 that was celebrating a birthday. We came in when they were singing the birthday song and shortly after they left.
What is with that? No one in the Slope stays up past 10pm?

First problem.. entrance.. enter door to the right of the restaurant.. walk down a hall to the entrance to the establishment. There is NO HANDLE on this inside door that leads to the restaurant. I kid you not. We walked out to street to see if somehow we had missed the entrance. (Note we were sober at this time!) No there was no other way in to this place. We walk through the door on streetfront, down the hall and this time there is a person on the other side of the inner door and he opens it for us.. I am not kidding the door is locked from the inside ! Very welcoming, right.

We split a a pasta and a main. The pasta was ravioli.. buffalo mozz and spinach inside and prepared beautifully!!Delicious and hot and so wonderful. The entree was skirt steak... medium rare.. and it really was..It was floating over some well browned potatoes that were seasoned perfectly and the side was spinach. The bread was fresh.. I wish places served Butter instead of balsamic vinegar or olive oil that died after the first pressing.. but no matter. This food came fast!! After the fact I imagined a kitchen staff saying... serve them fast and get them out of here so we can go home!! Wine by the glass.. one pinot grigio and one Chianti.

The mission was a quiet chat and the place was perfect for that. We ordered another glass of wine toward the end of the meal. Someone comes to clear promptly. Waiter comes to offer dessert. We say perhaps. He scoots back in record time with the menu. Goes off for a quick piss and scoots back. My friend hems and haws.. perhaps we want it perhaps come back in a moment.. waiter looks a little something or other.. Ah.. It occurs to me to ask him when they close ( I remember the "we want the PROFIT from your dessert choice AND but I have been here 14 hrs today.. LlEAVE look) and I ask sweetly.. What time do you close? he says 10pm. It is 10;05. I ask for the check and wish him God's speed on his journey home.

Bill..$71.50 ( plus the tip) Sounds reasonable? Remember we ordered only one pasta and one entree but heart appetites would have been quite a coin more. We did have 4 wines between us because we were having a good time but my mother taught me never to linger in a restaurant after closing time. We gulped the wine and left. This is an expensive restaurant.

Next installment I will give you at least 3 other places I would go to for expensive Italian food.

NoNo...... NO that is not the name of a restaurant.. that is my recommendation NO Go hERE!

next time you're up this way, veets, i highly recommend you try MOIM if you haven't already and enjoy korean food. for that amount of money, you could have had appetizers, entrees and desserts (no wine as i believe it's still byob) and still had some change left over. i think it's one of the best restaurants in park slope, for sure. beautiful space also, and VERY welcoming. the owner is usually there and walks around and talks to everyone.

you were right there...it's on garfield right behind the rancho allegro. there may have been a thread on here about it not long ago.

and the 10pm thing....I HEAR YA!! by the time i get home from work and hit the gym, i'm ready to go to dinner around 9 or 10 and 7th avenue is pretty dead by then.

i'm not going to rant about that again. i've already done that once before on here and was attacked bitterly saying i needed to move to europe or something.

in other late night news...century 21 has extended its hours to MIDNIGHT from the current 8:30! perhaps there's hope for NYC actually becoming the city that never sleeps as it claims to be.

I am so satisfied reading the trashed reviews of this place and look forward to seeing the "For Rent" sign posted. Can't imagine it will be long now. I just hate restaurants opened for strictly profit with no real love of food behind them. That place reeks of "investment" "quick profit" "laundry my cash". And SHAME on the owners for going to Cassio.'s boss. I think the day they close, I will dance in the streets. I hope the owner is reading this (I also am not a fan of Myr and their stroller sign).

oops...sorry veets...i should have been more clear.

it's the century 21 department store in lower manhattan...not the real estate place.

THAT would be funny though!!!

it wasn't particular to park slope news, but any little bit that gets this city to stay open a little longer is good news by me (unless it was a real estate office). first a department store in manhattan, next maybe a restaurant in park slope!!!!

weirder things have happened....

it's funny.
seems every day i'm walking on fifth avenue and someone's opening a restaurant.
there certainly now is a spectrum of cuisines from everywhere on fifth from the prospect expressway up to flatbush avenue. from the cheap to the expense-account expensive ... most with a good inviting neighborhood feel.
compare that to 7th avenue, which seems so passe.
elementi is the death of the 7th avenue food scene. i go by there some evenings and the chairs are up on the tables.
so sad.

Sunday brunch isn't usually a restaurant's finest hour(s), but as I walked down 7th Avenue around noon, I noticed that Grand Canyon and 2nd Street Cafe were packed. Elementi had two people sitting inside.

Eatshoplocal...I love your name.. and in part I guess that is why I am willing to address your kind of nasty comment on my comment.

I have been trying to SHOP LOCAL in PS for 30 years because that is how long I have been living here and trust me it was not always an easy thing to do.


Well now... certainly as far as restaurant eating out I have more than enough choices never to leave the hood. So whether it be a sweet, simple diner or 5 star meal I can find the BEST of either and all in between in PS.

So I don't judge just by food .. I want to feel welcome when I go to a restaurant and any place that is so schitzo they can't even direct me to their entrance in a reasonable way, or give me an impression that the chair I am sitting in was chosen for comfort ( and not because it was style 202b and went with all the rest of the chrome junk in this place) is not getting repeat business . Elemente was so in to me NOT being there that they made it clear they would rather not serve me dessert because it was 10;05. PLease!!!

I do agree that a pass through on arestaurant is not enough info for someone to critique that place but if that first impression is just so off that they state they will never eat there... I can get with that.