Cafe Shane closed

I agree w some points..but vermin alert is totally invalid. There are rats and mice everywhere. None of us would be able to get on the subway if even minimum standards where applied evenly. A walk through every establishment that sells/serves/prepares food would show signs of some vermin. Cafe Shane is slow as shit.. agreed. Every menu item is not something I crave..agreed . They are no dirtier or infested than anyplace else. The totally arbitrary way the new health standards are being rated and applied is something out of 1950..A,B..if one guy has to post a rating everybody else should also. From a deli making an egg sandwich to a 200 dollar a plate place. This thing is like a typical NY bridge or road repair..work so fucking slow that by the time you are at one end the other end already needs repair and re inspection. If all this about public safety spend a few 100 thousand letting people know what to look for.."If you don't see an A or B in the window where you are eating or buying don't go there and call us(Gov) so we can shut them down". .. They have created an agency process that potentially could cost all of us 10's of millions. Shane's is a great example..loss of taxes.jobs,expanding negative effects example. Changed traffic pattern for people who sell them milk,meat,paper products,beer,wine, linen service,employees in limbo. The area residents look at this as blemish and the negative effect will take some time to overcome. There is an easy solution that is used throughout the US..have the places inspected by a team of 3 to 4 people. The inspections in a small place are done in a tenth of the time..* most critical issue a pass fail certificate is given that day and move on ..not another process where there is bidirectional snail mail stupidity. The public is served by safer cleaner eating establishments and it's done without and additional few hundred dollars per inspection which equals 10's of millions city wide. Why create a new agency criteria that is already outdated everywhere else. Everybody wants clean safe places to eat the current inspection regime does nothing toward this end it only penalizes the unlucky place that got inspected.Walk the streets not everybody has an A,B or failed notice. Piecemeal is bullshit

I saw they were closed, but did not see the notices the city usually glues on the door if they were closed by DOH, or for not paying taxes.

May 16, 2013:

Heads up!

Cafe Shane may soon close for good.

My sources inform me that an entity "Mrs. Dorsey’s Kitchen LLC" has applied for a Beer/Wine lic for this site.

Entities often apply for an alc lic before finalizing the purchase of a site to ensure that it would be feasible/ profitable. If they get the permit, they then close the deal....

Yes!

I think that grilled cheese is becoming what pizza used to be to NY.

...one can have several places in a neighborhood, and they all might survive.

yes, the people that own Glady's (at Lincoln and Franklin) concluded that they could make far more $ on dinner type food (i.e. not grilled cheese), and have yet to open for lunch as a result.

I am optimistic that a Washington Avenue location is still affordable enough that I can get a somewhat simple sandwich.

I am a somewhat simple man.

That place wasn't so awful to me

I think it might be moving in to the space next to Shane's. The shut down postal place.

Yes, it seems Cafe Shane isn't going anywhere.

I think the the confusion stemmed from Cafe Shane (798 Washington) and the planned grilled cheese place (794 Washington) being in the same building, which technically occupies a variety of addresses.

whynot_31 said:

May 16, 2013:

Heads up!

Cafe Shane may soon close for good.

My sources inform me that an entity "Mrs. Dorsey’s Kitchen LLC" has applied for a Beer/Wine lic for this site.

Entities often apply for an alc lic before finalizing the purchase of a site to ensure that it would be feasible/ profitable. If they get the permit, they then close the deal....