Video: A Last Look Inside the Guss' Pickles Barrel

Last summer news broke that Lower East Side tenement-era survivors Guss' Pickles would pack up their barrels and move to Borough Park; after almost 90 years in the neighborhood, they could no longer make a profit. Last week they finally abandoned their Orchard Street stall, changed the name to Ess-a-Pickle, and relocated to Brooklyn, on 39th Street between 14th and 15th Avenues. But before they left, The Brooklyn Ink shot this mouth-watering video, narrated by co-owner Patricia Fairhurst, whom we instantly adore for her declaration, "We don't get carried away with the spices—except garlic, we love garlic. Garlic makes everything wonderful!" Patricia, we'd follow you anywhere!

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By John Del Signore in Food on March 28, 2010 12:11 PM

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Brooklyn Book Worm

Spudster got it right. The original Gus's pickles had a dispute with its landlord and eventually found a short-term rental on Orchard Street. Meanwhile, an industrious Asian entrepreneur opened "The Pickle Guys" in a nearby storefront on Essex Street -- featuring the same quality products as Gus's, newspaper clippings about "Crossing Delancey" and a rabbi's certificate that his pickles are kosher. (So long as there are no meat or dairy products on the premises, this certification is almost automatic.) Kosar's Bialys are still available just around the corner. And there's the Donut Factory, too. Ess, ess mein Kind!

aprilnyc

Hey, this is my zip code... Gotta go and get some new pickles and snap some pix.

longacre

Sounds like they couldn't compete with Frank's Pickle Barrel Ass.

Spudster

But pickles haven't abandoned the LES! The Pickle Guys, on Essex at Grand, are doing a brisk pre-Passover business today; the line was to the corner.