After 28 years of portion caf� food to celebrities, tourists, and fashiony New Yorkers, Union Square’s iconic grill the Coffee Shop at 29 Union Square West will close, a Post reports.
Never utterly famous for a food — that skews Brazilian-ish — a Coffee Shop has nonetheless turn a informative sensation, appearing frequently on HBO’s Sex and a City. It has been a bad year for restaurants busy by Carrie Bradshaw and friends: Sushisamba also closed in January.
Former Wilhelmina models Charles Milite, Eric Petterson, and Carolyn Benitez opened Coffee Shop in 1990, and it fast became a sceney conform destination. There was even a long-standing gossip that a grill usually hired determined models as servers. When a grill closed for only a few days in 2007 due to DOH violations, then-pregnant singer Naomi Watts, was one of a initial business who showed adult for a reopening, the Post notes. For those reduction fashion-inclined, a restaurant’s plcae nearby a vital movement heart and park done it a visit end for New Yorkers and tourists — who could simply accommodate in Manhattan right nearby a large sign.
As for a imminent closure, Milite cites rising rents and costs of doing business. “The times have altered in a industry,” Milite told a Post. “The rents are really high and now a smallest salary is going adult and we have a outrageous series of employees.” The Post also reports that Milite is violation a news to a restaurant’s 150 employees today.
The caf� is one of a final remaining non-chain, sit-down restaurants left in Union Square, that has suffered a spate of high-profile closures like Union Square Cafe and Republic. Blue Water Grill stays open, though it’s predestine is still uncertain.
The Coffee Shop will shiver on Oct 11. Flats Fix, that a Coffee Shop group also owns, stays open.