Openings: Healthy Dumpling Cafe In Sunset Park

 

A new food place has opened up on 8th Avenue. Healthy Dumpling Cafe is more than a dumpling place or cafe. It offers a full fledged menu of Chinese food and they deliver too. While their specialty is dumplings, either boiled, steamed or fried, you will find a full fared menu on their brand new page on our website. It is also newly refurnished and the place is set up to be more welcoming than the other dumpling places in the neighborhood with a slightly more upscale clientele in mind.  The prices are quite competitive   and the quality of the food is high. What more could you ask of a new restaurant in the neighborhood? Visit their web page on our website and check out their menu and offerings..

Open Mike this Coming Monday at Mug Cafe April 14th

This Monday Mug Cafe is holding the first and one hopes the first of many art events. The open mike event is to take place starting at 7 PM and everyone in the neighborhood is invited to stop by and join. It's a great excuse to visit a great coffee shop and hopefully a neighborhood hangout for people to congregate.

Changes: New Cafe coming to old Podlaise location.

No sooner did I write last month of the closing of Polish Delicatessen Podlaise that the location appears to have been rented and construction has begun at the location. From the city permits we can tell that it is going to be a Cafe. As if 8th Avenue needed yet another cafe. Somehow I don't think it's going to be a Starbucks. Fat chance of that happening. But we can always hope. Actually I think a Starbucks would do well on 8th Avenue, maybe even on 5th where there are a lot of store fronts up for rent. At least it shows the vibrancy of the local economy on the 8th Avenue strip. Stores don't stay closed for long. If there is one constant in the neighborhood it is change and it's happening at a fast pace..

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Openings: Tin Cup Cafe

With the closest Starbucks to Sunset Park being the one in Bay Ridge at 75th street and 3rd Avenue. It's always good news when an alternative opens in the neighborhood. A few years back Starbucks was going to open a location in our neighborhood but due to financial problems it instead closed a few Brooklyn locations and plans to expand here were scrapped. So when I stumbled on the Tin Cup Cafe and the fact they offered free Wi Fi it was rather welcome. On the downside is the fact they close rather early around 7 whereas most Starbucks are open till 10 or thereabouts. That being said the price is right and the location convenient if you need a spot to sit down with your laptop and you need to do some work. They have been open a relatively short time. Part of a wave of new cafes in the Greenwood Heights neck of the Sunset Park woods. They are located at 719 4th Avenue near 24th street. Go check them out and tell them I sent you.

I will be posting on some of the other cafes in the area as well.

Store of the day: The Tiki Bar

Located on 4th  Avenue between 32nd and 33rd streets and sporting Wi Fi is the Tiki Bar. Open from 2 PM till 4 am they currently don't serve coffee, but the owner has told me he is amenable to the idea if people came in and requested it. The place is very pleasant and also serves as a sport's bar which they don't advertise as such but they should. It's decor is designed to bring images of the south pacific into your mind. If you haven't been there they are definitely worth a visit.

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Store of the Day: Love My Bagels

This is a new feature we are trying. As we run across many interesting places in our travels in the neighborhood we decided to add some of them to the blog. Pictured above is a relatively new Cafe and Bagel place that could give Starbuck's a run for it's money. It doesn't have WI FI at the moment but I bet that if you go in and ask for it maybe the owners will get the hint and install it. Who knows, it could become a new watering hole for those of us with laptops that hate having to go to MacDonald's or trekking over to Starbuck's in Bay Ridge. Drop in and visit them. They are located on 4th Avenue near 58th street. Let's patronize our local businesses.


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A new kind of Bakery in Sunset Park

In what I hope is a new trend in the neighborhood is the opening of La Boulangerie Lopez in the Greenwood Heights section of the neighborhood. Hopefully the concept will spread. We are sadly deficient in good coffee establishments that serve good baked goods and internet as well. The only free wifi zones so far to have opened in the neighborhood are the free service offered by McDonald's and that offered by the Public Library. Though somewhat similar to a Starbucks, something we don't have in our neck of the woods, La Boulangerie boasts fresh baked goods baked right on the premises with a far wider variety than the fare at Starbucks. One thing that is lacking in the neighborhood is wifi access for those of us who are on the road and need to connect while we are out. La boulangerie is I hope the start of a good trend in the neighborhood. While we do have a goodly number of Internet cafe's in the area, especially on 8th Avenue. They do not have wifi access and you must use their computers. Out of luck if you lug a laptop as I do. The baked goods at La Boulangerie and the Cafe varieties should make Starbucks blush. The place already has acquired a rather strong local following and clientele. Perhaps now that some in the southern part of the hood are aware of it, they too will partake of the experience. Support your local businesses and drop by.

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