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Some Brooklyn Neighborhoods Resisting Restaurants

The guys often credited with sparking the Carroll Gardens’ restaurant renaissance are being chased “through the streets with pitchforks,” according to Patois co-owner Alan Harding. The Times has a long profile on his team's 12-plus restaurants, and reports that some Brooklyn residents are officially fed up with all these places to eat. “If Brooklyn is a frontier, where a free-ranging chef can throw down his bag of knives, stake out a liquor license and fillet the roaming buffalo — or at least a little brisket — then the frontier is beginning to close. It’s not as much fun, and 10 times as stressful as it once was.”

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  • schizofriendly

    Soon, you people on Smith Street will be doing your laundry in the restaurants!

    -- Nisan, the humble Russian owner of Valentina's Laundromat. The shop (bet. Batic + Butler) is closing before this year's end because of an extreme, non-negotiable rent hike.

  • chris

    When many people moved to the frontier, the buffalo disappeared. 12 restaurants? Maybe you should start looking for new adventures or new frontiers.

    I hear Staten Island is looking good.

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