Tyra Banks at Iris Cafe

By on April 17, 2010 1:47 pm in Celebrity Residents, Food

You know you’re hot when A-listers brave the din of strollers and tourists to sip your lattes: Tyra Banks and boyfriend, John Utendahl, were among the Iris Café crowd this afternoon. They came for the amazing ploughman sandwiches and stayed for the café’s coveted corner window seat. He is super tall, she was splendid in blazer and jeans, and I got to get my first up-close look at an iPad, courtesy of the two. A good time was had by all until the wifi conked out.

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26 Responses to Tyra Banks at Iris Cafe

  1. xochi April 17, 2010 at 1:55 pm #

    who cares?
    should i mention or post that i sometimes share a coffee with mr. gabriel byrne at a nearby shop, does that make me or the place any better?

    get a life.
    who cares?

  2. brooklyn neighbor April 17, 2010 at 2:04 pm #

    I second that!

  3. Jake April 17, 2010 at 2:56 pm #

    Starf*cker.

  4. AAR April 17, 2010 at 2:57 pm #

    Aw…come on….what’s wrong with sharing the pleasure of a neighborhood celebrity sighting? It’s a nice contrast to all the complaining about the quality of restaurants and Montague Street shopping.

  5. GHB April 17, 2010 at 3:50 pm #

    AAR, don’t you realize yet that these people will bitch and moan about absolutely anything and everything? I guess it makes ‘em feel worthwhile…

  6. Publius April 17, 2010 at 4:01 pm #

    BFD. Did Tyra show off her cellulite?

  7. The where April 17, 2010 at 4:05 pm #

    Homer should just shut this thing down because y’all ate a bunch of whiners

  8. karl Junkersfeld April 17, 2010 at 7:20 pm #

    If this blog was shut down for whining, would any blog survive? I think not.

  9. Steph M April 17, 2010 at 10:10 pm #

    Wow…nasty…..it can’t be the weather…..Maybe you can be civil if you can’t be nice? Sometimes it’s refreshing to have a little levity from choppers and restaurants and architecture. It’s a unique part of your community after all, to have celebs roaming around on a routine basis.

  10. blech April 17, 2010 at 11:30 pm #

    The iPad doesn’t get you booted to the laptop ghetto? F Iris.

  11. Dan April 17, 2010 at 11:45 pm #

    We followed Paul G. today for 1/2 block. OMG!!! HE’S FAMOUS! We picked up gold in his path. Thank you Paul!

  12. nabeguy April 17, 2010 at 11:58 pm #

    Dan, if it was Giamatti you were following, I doubt it was gold you picked up. Probably more like a trail of angst. In any case, the fact that accomplished people live in the Heights is something we should celebrate. After all, they wouldn’t be celebrities if we didn’t.

  13. AEB April 18, 2010 at 8:16 am #

    Oh, Tyra! Oh super tall (8 feet?) John!

    But, you know, every bit of glamour bestowed on this tiny kingdom is, to my mind, welcome.

  14. xochi April 18, 2010 at 3:41 pm #

    “what’s wrong with sharing the pleasure of a neighborhood celebrity sighting?”; inho it is fine to share amongst friends, this neighborhood has more than its share of accomplished artists in many genres. Why do you think they come here? Is posting on a blog sharing with friends? I think not, you are physically placing them somewhere, which can be harmful, annoying at least. And to state that a place is “hot” because a celebrity (that lives here) has come in is just ridiculous.

    I suppose key food on montague should be mentioned as a “hot” spot as well.

    Seeing these folks, who are just like us, enjoying their/our neighborhood is wonderful, if we treat them as anyone else, perhaps we can befriend them and keep them here. Or chase them away by becoming the next GAWKER.

  15. the Where April 18, 2010 at 3:50 pm #

    xochi – allow me to call he waaaaaaaaaaaaaambulance for you. Gawker is a great site. Perhaps you prefer the Christian Science Monitor?

  16. Heather Quinlan April 18, 2010 at 4:57 pm #

    I hope Bjork starts shopping at Key Food if/when she moves here.

  17. hoppy April 18, 2010 at 5:25 pm #

    HQ-

    If she got into a fight with that reporter who said “Welcome to Bangkok,” imagine what’ll happen once she encounters those cashiers;)

  18. xochi April 18, 2010 at 6:10 pm #

    the where – it is not stated anywhere that i don’t think gawker is a great site, you seem to have missed the point entirely. waaaaaaaaaaaaaa

  19. The where April 18, 2010 at 7:03 pm #

    I am the point.

  20. HeightsDiva April 18, 2010 at 8:05 pm #

    WOW chillax people. Tyra is rad and I love celeb gossip:P

  21. melanie hope greenberg April 18, 2010 at 9:15 pm #

    I am a Tyra fan. I’d love to see her around the neighborhood.

  22. AEB April 18, 2010 at 9:45 pm #

    Tyra, mon efant, ma soeur……

  23. Andrew Porter April 19, 2010 at 2:43 am #

    Melanie, then you’d be….a tyrant?

    There’s the famous singer who lives near me and I can hear her voice through her apt door. At least she’s not into heavy metal.

  24. xochi April 19, 2010 at 9:27 am #

    point taken, enjoy your brew.

    no wonder, your full of…

    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/world/asia/18civetcoffee.html?pagewanted=1&ref=homepage&src=me

  25. David on Middagh April 19, 2010 at 1:30 pm #

    …cat-butt coffee?

    I missed my chance at a free sample last year. Too lazy to go to Park Slope.

  26. Billy Reno April 20, 2010 at 12:04 pm #

    Saw Tyra with a Crumbs billboard on that forehead today.