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UPDATE 2/29: Alas, this proved to be a mistake. See this post for the explanation—and why someone really ought to open a restaurant on Broadway.
I was wading through the Community Board 1 agendas for March—I’ll post them soon—when I saw what I thought was a bit of gobbledygook buried in the liquor-license renewals.
Then I realized it’s two items:
• 325 Broadway, application for a liquor license for Pasta Shop LLC d/b/a Bar Primi
• 305 Church Street, application for renewal of sidewalk cafe license for Los Americanos [they mean Belle Reve]
In other words, major news: Andrew Carmellini’s Bar Primi is opening on Broadway. It pretty much has to be where the Steps fashion shop was, at the southwest corner of Broadway and Worth. The first Bar Primi is on Bowery and E. 2nd St., and all of its sister restaurants—Locanda Verde, The Dutch, Lafayette, Little Park—are on corners, so this wouldn’t come as a shock. Except for that it’s on Broadway, heretofore a restaurant wasteland. But with all of the residential development, it was a question of time. (Dare we hope that Bar Primi is taking the depressing, L-shaped Burger King on either side, too?)
The Bar Primi photo is by Daniel Krieger, from Eater’s review.
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Hopefully not a weird mixup given the original is at 325 Bowery – same street number.
Right? The whole thing is strange but it makes so much sense for someone to open a restaurant in that area—think of how many buildings are nearby (the two huge ones on Worth east of Broadway), 93 Worth, 101 Leonard, 88 Leonard, Franklin Place, 376 Broadway, Tribeca Tower, 270 Broadway, 261 Broadway; and all the ones to the north coming online in the next year or two. And if Bar Primi is opening there, I have to assume it’s taking the Burger King because that’s where the venting is (which also gives it a natural delivery exit on Worth).
BUMMER! From Eater: “Although a Tribeca Location of Bar Primi would most certainly be a huge hit, sadly, Andrew Carmellini & Co. are not opening a new restaurant in this space. It turns out there was a mix-up of sorts: A Noho Hospitality rep explains that the team is renewing its liquor license at 325 Bowery — the original Bar Primi space — and the group is not applying for a new license at 325 Broadway.” Not sure how the renewal ended up with CB1 (Bowery is on the line between CB2 and CB3). Well, someone really should open a restaurant there.