Sorrel is Closing?

That's a shame.

I heard business was slow but they just couldn't turnup the root of the problem. (someone stop us)

Oh, cmon! Credit cards?

That's the excuse?

WE were bad neighbors. That is a place that we all wish we had and we had it.

A gazillion restaurnts in the city are cash only and do fine.


So sad. We suck as a neighborhoood, and people with money to let that place go.

Ok, experiment failed, now bring back the bodega that was there before. :idea:

i'm planning to go tomorrow (my birthday).


dammit! i've tried garden cafe, and it's just not as good. and don't get me started on the muddy flavors and breath-less wine glasses of flatbush farm....
:evil:

to be fair, i've only been to g.c. once and to sorrel many times, but i'll respectfully disagree. or at least i'll say that to my tastes g.c. was not as good an experience.

don't get me wrong; it was a wonderful meal. but afterwards i felt heavy and tired, and the atmosphere -- while very nice -- is just less my style. i felt like i was either about to do something wrong or already had done so, like eating at someone else's house when you're a kid. (i've eaten at plenty of nice joints, and i know my forks apart -- i am an episcopalian, after all )

the food was technically faultless, but less exciting to me. maybe in part because the french/new american idea is just less new to me than the french/russian/new american.

i don't have anything bad to say about g.c., but it was more money (only slightly, granted, but for 2 courses instead of 3) for a dinner i enjoyed less.

I have a lot of yupster (since RN has already chimed in on this thread) friends who visit the nabe regularly to eat at GC or Franny's and would have gone to Sorrel more often, often with me in tow, had there been a CC machine in the joint. Why? We're serious drinkers - one bottle of wine is not going to cut it, especially if we're gonna sit around and chat over dessert. The last time I was there with a large group of hardcore drinkers (a whopping 4 people - Carnivore, that's the group you ran into that time), we all had to dump in around $100 a person - that's more cash than I really feel like traipsing around with. and that's the demographic that's discouraged when you don't take CCs. obviously they had trouble drumming up enough business that was willing to walk in with $35-55 in cash per person.

I will miss the place - I love the portion sizes and the wine list. I like the market menu.

but I also have to agree with Carnivore, GC's quality of food and cooking is so much more amazing and quirky than Sorrel's. there's a reason that place has had such constant acclaim over the, what, 15 years it's been there?

eterpay wrote: while we're on the subject, does anyone know what's going on with 360? I was there a couple times and it was truly excellent.

I think 360 closed. I went once during a once yearly trip to Red Hook. Sad. It was very good, but nowhere near reliable transportation.

I just wanted to chime in for Sorrell over GC, though I guess that's sort of gratuitous. I've been to GC twice and on both occasions found the performance to be sort of undifferentiated, especially at that price point. (Though GC is certainly better, I had a very similar experience the two times I found myself at Tempo.)

Sorrell on the other hand has always been very sharp and precise cooking when I've been there, and the consistency of exceeding expectations makes it my favorite fine-dining location in S Brooklyn apart from Al Di La.

So I too am very happy to hear it's not going.

shit. im totally guilty of not going... but i totally admit to stopping to look at the menu and doing the whole "mmmm this place looks good, lets go back" and of course i never did.

i never walk that way really!

meh. not a valid reason i know. but shit, i do wish i'd gone... i feel very guilty now.

i DID try amorina for the first time last week after having lived here and passing by the place for over a year now and that place is damn good. i even waited in line in the cold last saturday. and i will be back. mmmmmm.

and to think i've passed that place to go to franny's.....pssssssssssh---never again!

just to be clear, as far as i know it is NOT closing. alex claimed things were going really well -- which i've never heard him say before. so repent and dine in heaven.

i don't think this place would survive on washington (at least not today's washington), but i agree about the "i never walk that way" problem, as that's why we didn't go there for the first year or so. if they do need more business, short of relocating, they might consider getting a sign....

360's website says they're closed for renovations. I hope that's all it is--I've been meaning to go their for years and haven't made it yet.

I'll definitely give Sorrel a chance now. I went in there with my boyfriend once and sat down, but there were so few vegetarian options and we foundt he atmosphere so off-putting that we apologized and left. Probably went to Beast or FF.

Are these guys closed for good?