NEW FOOD ESTABLISHMENT ON 7TH AVE

I truly appreciate everyone's advice and input.

Oh, we're not done yet...

@aquamann - Schaller & Weber should have landjagers. But that's not quite convenient to bike to if you live anywhere in Brooklyn.

@VMC515 - I'd vote for doing one thing very well. And maybe that would be salads. I'm also someone who's said numerous times, I wish there was a decent salad place (for lunch) within reasonable range.

There are a ton of grab and go places on this stretch of 7th. An all dumpling joint would make me soooooooooooooo happy and negate the need to stop at three places for three different types of dumplings.

Union Market has plenty of pre-made salads. Russo's is the perfect italian deli. The taco place on 8th street is close enough. What we need is dumplings! Rickshaw has my heart with dumplings and spicy flavorful soups.

DUMP-LINGS!!!!!!!!!!! DUMP-LINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Already enough dessert/bread/coffee in the neighborhood... So far I am liking the BBQ suggestion. Maybe various meats by the lb, and a killer salad bar? Or if you are into sandwiches, how about a place like Mile End, or Katz... with a great salad bar? One last favor... please do not become another Gastro pub/Bistro/Brasserie/Trendy brunch spot! Best of luck!

You really can't go wrong with dumpling though...

@aquamann BKLYN Larder usually has Landjager. They're big and look seriously authentic. Bierkraft sometimes has them too.

one more vote for a salad bar.

and whatever you wind-up doing, install a window where dog walkers can pick-up something without having to tie-up the pooch to a pole.

I know! A really good roast beef sandwich place, like Brennan and Carr's. It'll be there for 100 years.

Park Slope Eatery (or whatever that place on 7th avenue and 5th street is called) has a make your own salad bar but no one knows that because no one wants to go there. Take a look at that place (or at a place like Kozy Cafe on 6th ave and 7th street) to get an idea of what NOT to do. Bland decor, no charm, too much of everything and not a good anything.

BBQ, as much as I love the idea, would never work. To have a real, proper smoker you can't be in such a heavily residential neighborhood.

How about a good appetizing place like Barney Greengrass? How Park Slope doesn't have a place like that has always surprised me and I'm as big of a goy as you can get.

@Pastoralia I'm with you on the appetizing. To be able to call a place and pick up a whole smoked whitefish, etc would be amazing. It's tough to do, though, and you'd ned to smoker to make lox and such. Not many people know how to properly kipper a salmon. Bagel market is the closest we get in the neighborhood to an appetizing place. '

And yeah, look at Park Slope Eatery as an example of what not to do. So bland.

For examples of what NOT to do, I'd say look at the Park Slope Eatery and Kohzee Cafe. If you were familiar with the now failed coffee/baked goods place on 5th ave btw 16th St and Prospect (the name escapes me now...), that was also a prime example of what not to do. Totally sterile, fluorescent lighting, half-empty cases, wide-open and bare room. Totally unwelcoming.

Barney Greengrass? I really don't think that concept would make for a successful full-time place. I don't think we have the concentration of people who stay here during the weekdays to support something so niche. Of course, I despise smoked fish, so I may be biased.

If the OP could do something like 'sNice but actually make the sandwiches edible, I'd be there all the time.

"@aquamann BKLYN Larder usually has Landjager. They're big and look seriously authentic. Bierkraft sometimes has them too."

"@aquamann - Schaller & Weber should have landjagers. But that's not quite convenient to bike to if you live anywhere in Brooklyn."

this is perhaps the best moment of my life. thank you.

with that settled, i support the salad model that others have proposed. after eating landjagers, i will need more salads and i have had a hard time finding an easy lunch salad-type place to meet my work-at-home needs.

Sell what you make best. Don't follow the herd. Build it and they will come.....just remember to invite us when you open.

I'm 99% positive that Grab carries Landjager as well.

There used to be a great place on 7th between 11th & 12th called "My Sister's Kitchen." They had take out home made food. Really like what you'd cook for dinner. That with a salad bar would be perfection.

Park Slope used to have a terrific appetizing store, Bellamilio (sp?), until the proprietor's husband died and she lost interest. They carried various smoked fishes, Amish-made cream cheeses, fancy cheeses, cake, real bagels and bialys, and many other yummies. I've been in mourning ever since they closed!

That would be so much better than a salad bar!

@booklaw what is in that space now?

Yamato.

A Jewish deli. A real Jewish deli, and no reason why you can't incorporate a salad bar too. BYOBB. (Bring your own bacon bits.) Or hell, make a German-style deli or a Jewish-style deli that's not kosher.

Used to be a Jewish deli on 7th nr Union that also did the most amazing fried chicken, and the guys that ran the counter were Asian. And I'm a WASP. And yet... we all loved that Jewish deli food.

Take the City Bakery concept in Manhattan (including their salad bar) and bring it to the Slope. That salad bar is so good I'm willing to pay the hefty per-pound price. Maybe not so many pastries (there's Cousin John and Sweet Melissa) but plenty of fresh-baked bread, including cinnamon-raisin, please.

What about a casual seafood shack type place? Lobster rolls, fried clam sandwiches, oyster "po boys", steamed clams, etc.

On a totally separate track, I'd love to have some good, quick, casual Mexican. Tacos, burritos and the like. Note that I'm NOT talking about a place like Moe's that slops stuff onto your burrito. Thinking more along the lines of a good Northern California burrito joint.

I agree - I would like Calexico to open up a carbon copy of their place in Columbia Waterfront

A vietnamese place. Like L'Annam in Manhattan. No more bahn mi joints.

oh yeah, one more suggestion:

tibetan

there's a great place up in northampton mass. do it here!

Love the seafood shack idea.

Also, how about an excellend fried chicken place? I practically grew up on fried chicken and can't find any good stuff nearby.

The seafood shack is my favorite proposal. Fried clams, steamed lobster, yum. Done right, I could see myself being a frequent patron.

Second favorite, fried chicken. There is no place to get a bucket of decent fried chicken locally.

Third - BBQ

We do not need more italian, sushi, mexican, veitmanese sandwiches.

PopEyes. That is what PS is missing

BBQ, but good bbq. Memphis style. How's about a NY location for Corkey's? (I think Voodoo will support me on this).

a full-blown German sausage-and-beer hall

This^^^^

or a REAL chinese place where I can get soy chicken on rice for $4.25 or wonton noodle soup.

Or a really, really good Indian place.

Also, get the Soup Bowl guy to have a permanent location around here. That place is always packed and I've had plenty of really good soups there.

A soup and salad place might not be too bad. The salad biz could help float the soup biz in the summer when it's hot.

Today's definitely a Soup Bowl day.

pmonk, will Park Slopers really enjoy authentic Chinese so we wouldn't have to go north to near Canal Street, or south to Brooklyn's 8th Avenue?

Kar Luk on 5th Ave. near 9th St. was good in the early nineties before it went generic, and Red Hot Schezuan had some well-prepared veg dishes in later years. I also remember a little dim sum place on 7th Avenue just north of Union that tanked after a few months, probably because it brought in its dishes from elsewhere, but hell, there it was; I supported it.

I'm tired of traveling farther for real Chinese food, but I don't see local enthusiasm for it.