Death Pool

[paryzer]

White Gold Butchers has closed.

 

https://ny.eater.com/2018/8/6/17655518/white-gold-butchers-closed-ken-friedman

[Daniel]

White Gold Butchers has closed.

 

https://ny.eater.com/2018/8/6/17655518/white-gold-butchers-closed-ken-friedman

 

The two talents behind it, Joceclyn and Erika, are gone and on to making their own sausage and hopefully other things.. I really am so impressed with them as people and as professionals.. We are excited to work with them in the future.

[Sneakeater]

Right. Without Guest and Nokamura, there wasn't much point to White Gold, was there? (Not that the neighborhood ever got that place in any event.)

[The Flon]

White Gold Butchers has closed.

 

https://ny.eater.com/2018/8/6/17655518/white-gold-butchers-closed-ken-friedman

 

I just had lunch there yesterday! They were out of MANY items but that didn't seem too unusual from previous experiences. Especially since I went at the tail end of the rush. Staff weren't really saying anything but in retrospect, things did seem more subdued than usual.

 

Always had terrific service there.

[Anthony Bonner]

We were regular shoppers there as Mrs. B has a client around the corner. Bummed to lose that as a meat option, but not surprised given the departures.

[villagerOFtheEast]

Pok Pok gone in three weeks.

[joethefoodie]

Maybe he needs to start cooking Chinese noodles and hot pots.

[wingding]

Not only is that a difficult location for diners without cars,but for employees as well. Also thought that the prices were a little high

[Wilfrid]

And the lease is up, he has a bunch of places on the west coast, and he's 55 (from his explanation), so yeah.

[Orik]

In hindsight its amazing how many people he managed to get to go there in the beginning.

[Wilfrid]

Next stop Avenue J for a slice!

[Daniel]

We had Pok Pok on our regular rotation for some time. It had its moments and then fell off a year or so ago. I know their rent and its insanely cheap.

 

To have watched their rapid growth, quick expansion and contraction, it was fun and interesting and educational. I think they did pretty well, all things considered.

 

Speaking of Thai, went to Sripraprhais location on north 9th and Bedford. Its in the former Qi dining space. If ou havent been, its a beautiful place. With high ceilings and water features and buddhas. It looks like a fancy restaurant in the burbs. But yeah, seems Like a strange move for them.

 

Why take New Yorks most successful and praised Thai restaurant, open a new location and change the menu. I dont know, but they did and I wish they didnt. The space is strange and their food not exciting.

[Steve R.]

Sri now has 3 places (there's one at 280 Hillside Ave as well) & she seems to have done, in Williamsburg, what Nargis did when they opened their Park Slope location -- that is, only offer 50% of the original's menu and add $1-2 to each item they do serve. I compared the Woodside and Williamsburg menus and it seems to me that the 50% that's not offered in Williamsburg are those items that she probably believes are less likely to be ordered in a non-Thai neighborhood. Or maybe its prep time -- I don't really know.

[Orik]

I walk by there often enough and it really gives off the suburban vibe Daniel describes... seems to keep people out pretty effectively.

[johannabanana]

Speaking of Thai, went to Sripraprhais location on north 9th and Bedford. Its in the former Qi dining space. If ou havent been, its a beautiful place. With high ceilings and water features and buddhas. It looks like a fancy restaurant in the burbs. But yeah, seems Like a strange move for them.

 

Why take New Yorks most successful and praised Thai restaurant, open a new location and change the menu. I dont know, but they did and I wish they didnt. The space is strange and their food not exciting.

 

The cooking at the Williamsburg location isn't anything like the cooking at the Woodside location - and even the presentation of some of the dishes is different.