Seen & Heard: Seaport Soda Fountain

April 12, 2012 Restaurant/Bar News, Shopping

••• On my way to the Seaport yesterday, I checked on the Gehry building’s western plaza. Definitely not open yet—as Suzanne F commented—although the orange mesh makes for an artsy photo.

••• And then I saw signage for Grandma’s House, a new restaurant at 27 Peck Slip. What you can’t see from the photo: It mentions pie and a soda fountain. [Update: See comments for more info.]

••• Super Linda is open for weekday lunch (but brunch remains on the horizon).

••• Sunny One, the new restaurant on Chambers (between Church and Broadway), is indeed a Chinese restaurant. The restaurant’s website still doesn’t work, but you can grab a menu in the rack outside. The options look pretty standard. The phone number is 212-385-2188.

••• Matt Bernson says that they’ve “decided to hold off on any sample sale for a few months” (it was usually around this time of year, but they have a new store).

••• Saw this tweeted by somebody: 59 Franklin is a music rehearsal studio/event space called the Dragon’s Den Studio. Who knew?

 
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2 Comments

  1. Orinocco Vaginelli
    April 13, 2012 • 8:40 am

    Grandma’s House is going to be family style retro diner on one side, complete with denim paint and real Levis covering the bar stools, and to go and delivery on the other selling gourmet pies, I believe. Two brothers are in charge, one in the kitchen and the other FOH. A great deal of work has gone into making it a haven for parents who want to keep the kids happy but have a phobia of clowns selling animal by-products to their children and trying to convince us the meal is in some way ‘happy.’ So there will be plenty of yummy things for the kids as well as every parent’s favorite word: alcohol -just wine and beer to keep it simple (and presumably to stop Dad from downing Michter’s and to stealing torsos from the nearby Bodies exhibition). The sidewalk cafe will be housed in by a real white picket fence, and an impressively sized American Flag is painted on the wall above the working fireplace at the back of the dining room. To those about to eat pie; I salute you.

  2. Suzanne F
    April 16, 2012 • 9:04 am

    Maybe it’s just as well the plaza isn’t open–at least it can’t be Occupied. We’ve put up with so much noise and dirt from that construction project over the years, that would really be awful.