Cafe Shane closed

How has it gotten a bad rap?

Do I care why service is slow?
Do I care why vermin are there?

I will just go someplace where I perceive less vermin, and better service.

Outcomes are more important than causes in such instances.

Good luck to Shanes

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 Why create a new agency criteria that is already outdated everywhere else.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

So, why have they shut down this time? More health code stuff, or gone for good?

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.

28 or more points is a C.

but "Grade Pending" with 38 Points w/Most Recent Graded Inspection Date10/12/2011

I suppose a C could harm a place like Shanes....

El Gran Castillo De Jagua when it gets a C it just adds to the local flavor...

BTW Anyone Notice how Tom's Hides their "B" above to the left of the door .. way above your head?

between 0 and 13 points earn an A,

14 to 27 points receive a B

28 or more a C

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....

"GRL'D CHZ PLZ"

July 23, 2011- Mrs. Dorsey’s Kitchen launches at Dekalb Market, in Downtown Brooklyn.

http://mrsdorseyskitchen.com/

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.

I think that place is way too big to just do grilled cheese, even if it also serves wine and beer. Will be interesting to see what happens.

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.

The space could be split. Remeber it did merge.

Anyway why don't we create a new thread?

http://brooklynian.com/forum/prospect-heights/mrs-dorsey’s-kitchen?replies=1#post-768253

That place wasn't so awful to me

I met Ron, who is running Mrs. Dorsey's Kitchen, a few months ago at a beer event. He'd mentioned looking to open in the area. For what it's worth, his food was pretty great.

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

FWIW, Cafe Shane had patrons inside all day yesterday (I walked by in the early afternoon and then again in the evening). Didn't seem to be a private event.

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....