February 29, 2008
Eagerly Awaited Bistro on the Way in Ditmas Park
Fans of Ditmas Park favorite the Farm on Adderley, get ready: The newest venture from co-owners Gary Jonas and Allison McDowell, a French bistro dubbed Pomme de Terre, is on the verge of opening. Apparently the regular customers at the Farm are jonesing for another mid-range restaurant in the neighborhood, and it's unlikely a recent shooting on the very same corner will deter them.
Jonas and McDowell have teamed up with restaurateur Jimmy Mamary, owner of Patois and Pacifico, who has had plenty of experience opening restaurants in unlikely spots. When he opened Patois in Carroll Gardens in 1997, Smith Street was a far cry from what it is today. As the Times put it, Smith Street "looked less like SoHo with its restaurants and boutiques, and more like Newkirk Avenue today." Who knows? Maybe Newkirk Avenue is destined to be the next Smith Street.
Pomme de Terre, 1301 Newkirk Avenue near Argyle Road, Ditmas Park
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I don't think there should be any doubt that this neighborhood is going to be big in the near future: beautiful, large homes with yards (and parking), Q train access.
WE NEED BARS
There goes the neighborhood.
I've been telling people that Brooklyn stops being interesting once you get north of about Church Avenue. I guess I'm going to have to move the line south before you know it.
interesting = tire repair shops and halal meat markets?
"WE NEED BARS"
for what?
interesting = tire repair shops and halal meat markets?
Interesting = twenty minutes every morning stuck on the Manhattan Bridge.
Interesting = forty-five minutes on the train to buy a decent pair of shoes or pants.
Interesting = only place in New York I've been robbed at gunpoint.
Ditmas Park sucks.
Interesting = neighbrohoods without navel-gazing writers, trust-funded hiptards, "DJs," and dippy artists.
This may come as either good news or bad depending on your point of view, but Victorian Flatbush actually has a surprising number of working artists, and a studio tour is even being plotted. Not sure how many of us qualify as "dippy," will have to go look up some metrics on that.
Interesting?
kidtwist, You clearly have some strong opinions about what makes a neiborhood "not intersting"; please enlighten us, what does makes a place interteresting.
Signed,
Clearly Unintersting