Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Area Gentrification "Cafe" watch


Benevolent
Urban Rustic, far N12th st (gold; chicken sandwiches)
Brooklyn Standard, Nassau (silver; ice cream sandwiches)
Boneshakers, Kingsland (bronze; giant iced coffee jars)

Average to Boring
Second Stop Cafe, far Lorimer
Cup, Norman (only top of this section due to friend's employement there)
Champion, far Manhattan Ave
Variety, far Graham
Uro Cafe, Driggs
Lucky Shot, Driggs (booooring)

Hall of Dishonor
Cafe Grumpy, Messerole (for "norms" writing novels)
Beaner Bar, far Graham (WTF)
El Beit, far Bedford (WTF)
Forest Natural, Norman (WTF)

Special Intricate Disappointment League
Eat, Messerole (shunned for phasing out music and cafe yet redeemed from lowest ranks for go-by-the-week CSA baskets)

2 comments:

zanimal said...

the beaner car? you've got to be kidding me

mjrjr said...

they are quirkily mexican themed and once GUILT TRIPPED me when i looked at the menu and started to walk out, and so i took their advice and ordered like a four dollar hemp milk latte, which was even grosser than it sounds