Ellis Restaurant and Bar Has Closed
On the morning of February 28th, workers at Ellis Restaurant and Bar in South Slope Brooklyn found out they no longer had jobs via giant pad lock on the doors. (New blog Greenwood Frame confirms the suddenness of the move.) After months of unpaid rent and disputes with the landlord, Ellis Restaurant and Bar is…
On the morning of February 28th, workers at Ellis Restaurant and Bar in South Slope Brooklyn found out they no longer had jobs via giant pad lock on the doors. (New blog Greenwood Frame confirms the suddenness of the move.) After months of unpaid rent and disputes with the landlord, Ellis Restaurant and Bar is no longer in business. The place was open just shy of two years. It never quite found it’s footing in South Slope, feeling more like it belonged somewhere on the Upper West Side. The opening of the bar South next door a few months back, with its more relaxed jukebox and free popcorn environment, seemed to also deal a blow to Ellis. The space Ellis is leaving behind is enormous; it will be interesting to see if a food or beverage establishment can survive in it. GMAP
DH – I have less than no interest in quinoa or soy milk — yuck. I am just hoping for something better than the places that already exist. How about a great diner, or a really good ethnic restaurant? Then they could hold on to that valuable liquor license and hopefully last longer than 2 years, like Ellis and South’s predecessor, Vin Rouge. Vin Rouge was always empty and Ellis was practically giving drinks away to rope in customers and they still couldn’t, so obviously, something was seriously wrong with their business plans.
“which hardly make up for the moldy smelling supermarkets, tacky delis and a plethora of undesirable venues.”
This place has a grandfathered liquor license – too valuable to waste it selling soy milk and organic quinoa.
Ellis was fine. It was a bar bar. You’ll all be missing places like it in a year when every new spot in your neighborhood sells 12 dollar cocktails and has a bartender dressed like a 1920s paperboy.
I don;t know about that, BS, Especially compared to CR. We have Lot2, Fonda, Ten, the Paris bistro on PPW, what’s that other restaurant down 5th a bit? Also Sidecar. No, it ain’t PS, but it ain’t bad. Agree we have too many bars and coffee shops tho (probably cuz I don’t really go to either 🙂 )
Maybe maybe maybe something of quality will occupy this space. I keep hoping. All we seem to get are more coffee shops, which hardly make up for the moldy smelling supermarkets, tacky delis and a plethora of undesirable venues. I cannot figure out why these blocks don’t attract some of the decent vendors and services like the ones that exist on Cortelyou Road. I think the critical mass is there, but instead, this is a neighborhood that is a place to leave rather than stay when you want to go out.
honestly, action, your comment is a snore.
Snore.
typeface kept me out of there too.
Only redeeming quality I found with Ellis is that the female bartender can make a seriously delicious bloody mary. Otherwise, good riddance.
Sorry to see it go as we saw it open, but I don’t think it ever knew what it wanted to be. It was big enuf to do a lively food biz, but the food wasn’t all that good. It never figured out if it wanted to be a bar with some food on the side, or a restaurant with a bar.