Sneak Peek of the Heights' Vineapple
[nggallery id=”56346″ template=galleryview] Yesterday we toured Vineapple, the new cafe/wine bar slated to open next week at 71 Pineapple Street. (The spot got some attention from Brooklyn Heights Blog, as well.) The business has been in the making for two years, as owner Pooja Raj had to renovate just about every inch of the interior….
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Yesterday we toured Vineapple, the new cafe/wine bar slated to open next week at 71 Pineapple Street. (The spot got some attention from Brooklyn Heights Blog, as well.) The business has been in the making for two years, as owner Pooja Raj had to renovate just about every inch of the interior. And the space itself is surprisingly large: there’s room near the front for cafe seating, a full bar, and two large tables, as well as a cozy area in the back filled with couches. The menu will include Stumptown coffee, pastries from Pickle Petunia Made, beer, wine, juices, teas and homemade sandwiches. Its opening is tentatively scheduled for Wednesday, but we’ll keep you updated. Like the looks of it? GMAP
The Mexican restaurant that occupied this space in the 80s and 90s was called “El Palenque”. It had decent to average tex-mex fare, but was very friendly. They had great, basic quesadillas and super sangria. Or maybe it was the fact that I was sixteen.
Before that it might have been a gay bar, but is in the same space of the same block as Clark St. that had Club Wild Fyre, famous for the film locale of the hit on Luca Brazzi in “The Godfather”
“Whatever” (the newer gay-friendly establishment) had an awning that depicted two hands throwing up “W” (gang style) with thumbs tips touching and index fingers pointed up. Hilarious. It didn’t last long.
im laughing right now cuz im not sure who it was, either my grandfather or grandmother who wanted to stucco the ceiling in our apartment. they fought about it for a while and in the end our ceilings didnt get stuccoed. that’s the kind of applique where if you touch it you could cut your finger right?
*rob*
The commercials were real – it was Garden State Brickface and Stucco. And that front is not original to the building, but was there at the time of landmarking (added pre-1965, an ugly pioneer!), so got included. To remove it or change it in any way, even to restore it to its original condition, would require landmarks approval, which I am sure they would be happy to give to someone wanting to restore the building.
FYI: For some reason, that ugly brick front is landmarked… It’s origional to the building and can’t be changed. Odd, huh?
FAIL. Sorry, but this will not do well in BH. If it were a real bar/lounge, it would be great. But this is some kind of muffin place that will just happen to serve some wine and beer. Nope.
i totally remember those commercials when i lived in jersey. we they local commercials? they seemed to be for some reason. wasnt it garden brickface and stucco? could have been called jersey tho.. what about the mawwwble columns commercials? tho that might have been an snl skit
*rob*
“I love how whens something ugly appears in Brooklyn, people try to blame Jersey.”
You don’t remember the Jersey Brickface TV commercials in the ’70’s-80’s? A missed glimpse of true art.
And for a while, this may have been the only Mexican gay bar in all of NYC.
this place was once (briefly) a gay bar called “Whatever” and m-a-n-y years before that was also a gay bar I think
Brickface > Moonface
*rob*