Will Van Brunt Street be Home to a New Restaurant Row?

Unnamed Italian Restaurant This one’s in the old 360 space. First reported last July by Lost City, the long-vacant storefront showed new signs of foot traffic, and confusing semaphores in the front window. In recent days there’s been more activity: The Safety Orange framed metal shutters have been up and down, so either we’ve got a haunted restaurant on our hands, or Barrone Ristorante LLC, the folks that applied for a liquor license in the space last fall, are moving ahead with the reopening. (HM )

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Last week, we wrote that two Red Hook establishments next door to each other on Van Brunt Street—LeNell’s and small plates restaurant Tini—are both closing. In light of the news that the mother of all shopping malls is probably coming to the old Revere Sugar Refinery Dome site, it would seem that the waterfront neighborhood is definitely in a transition phase, one that goes something like this: independently owned shops and restaurants are losing the battle against massive, commercial real estate development plans.

However, there are currently at least five interesting restaurant projects in development over ten blocks worth of Van Brunt Street, not to mention the second coming of Tini: owners Leisah Swenson and Monica Byrne have decided to convert their antique and curio shop Home/Made down the street into a restaurant as well. They’ve been using the prep kitchen at the back of the store for catering purposes for a while now, anyhow.

So that makes six. Here are the new restaurants that will join Van Brunt stalwarts Baked, The Good Fork, and Hope & Anchor later this year. Click on each image for the scoop.