A Tea Lounge in Brooklyn Heights!

By on March 2, 2009 3:49 pm in Brooklyn Heights, Commercial Real Estate, Fun, Kids, News, Nightlife, Real Estate

glassrightThe hip café and music venue Tea Lounge could come to Brooklyn Heights later this year, pending building permit and liquor license approval, its owner told the Brooklyn Heights Blog today.

Jonathan Spiel, who also owns Tea Lounge cafés in Park Slope and Cobble Hill, has his eye on a 4,000-square-foot hotspot at in the St. George Tower building, and hopes to bring in his concoction of a daytime café-turned-full bar and music venue at night to the neighborhood.

The Brooklyn Heights location is at 111 Hicks Street at the corner of Clark Street (in the old Palmira’s spot), and would be similar in size and event listings to the Park Slope one at 837 Union Street, but the space is divided into three rooms and can host private parties and multiple events simultaneously, Spiel explained.

The setting will also be kid-friendly, with blackboard paint on the walls and afterschool events featuring cartoons and milk and cookies, he added. There would be live music at night and a full bar for adults. And, of course, the spot will offer its famous free WiFi and big comfy couches for the area’s writers and readers.

Spiel said he is still trying to gauge neighborhood interest in a place like the Tea Lounge — so, what do you think? Would you want to see the Tea Lounge move into Brooklyn Heights?

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  • jared

    tea lounge is over priced and the owner is rude

  • kayla

    ive used togo to both slope tea lounges since they opened. i hate that owner. that Jonathan is a rude miserable sourpuss. He kicked out my best friend(who WAS a regular customer) because she was eating a sandwich from another place, OUTSIDE the store on 7th ave!!! He cursed at her, and embarressed her. He is a total ass. I would never frequent any of his establishments. Baristas have attitudes just like that dick owner. Go to the redhorse or tazza, or even starbucks and connecticuit muffin are better.

  • pater

    well, i wasn’t going to say anything, until I read the comments about the owner. He really is a dick. I met him last year when i was playing music there on union street. A total meany. always pissed, never nice. i must admit, i agree about that guy. the place is pretty cool, but who wants to be surrounded by a jerk all the time.

  • Joey Zazza

    J 8 – check your e-mail now.

  • Mom

    This is a great idea. Jonathon should know that there are some real crabs on this site at times. Ive lived in Heights 10years. 6 without kids and the last 4 with kids. Inever had any problem with moms/strollers before and noaltercations since. Rude people are rude; with or without kids. I think moms and kids will be a great source of income for you during the day and accomadating them is important. The stairs will be an issue but if you have staff that will be there to help up the stairs and a decent area at the top to corral the stollers that would be super. and I look forward to coming without my children in the evening.

  • Chester

    Mom, there are some real crabs in this neighborhood who happen to comment on this site. Homer and is staff are not crabs.

  • lucy

    owner is an ass…..

  • heightsmom

    I agree with Mom(with many of her comments) on the stroller issue a place to put them is very important we all figure out the stairs. Also, having delivery would be great. Lots of us with kids don’t get out much at night and there are few places that deliver to and in the North Heights.

  • frank

    this would be a most welcome addition to the neighborhood! i usually eat/ drink at home, but i would go out of my way to buy a cup of joe and lunch to support a new tea lounge in the hood with a community minded owner. also, the idea of private party rooms is very appealing. i don’t like tazza- i have found the service lacking.

  • Disappointed

    A sign posted in the lobby of the St. George Tower states that the Tea Lounge is just one of the possibilities for that space and that the tower’s board is in the early stages of negotiating with other potential tenants, as well. Given their track record, I wouldn’t expect to see anything in that space in 2009. They’ve already let it sit empty for over 2 years; I guess the rent isn’t that important to them … must be nice!

  • Renato

    Yes, we would definitely welcome you to the heights. No nighttime music venues whatoever – Henry St. Ale House is great but its the only game in town.

  • Renato

    We do support local busninesses if they are any good. Build it and they will come.

  • http://www.epmonthly.com Logan

    Yes!! I live a block away and would LIVE at the brooklyn heights tea lounge. Brooklyn Heights is dying for this kind of spot.

  • abbie

    Yes, we would love a place like this in Brooklyn Heights!!!! We totally support it!

  • XYZ

    They might have gotten the lease. There is a sign in the door referring to the tea lounge.

  • annoyying

    The kid friendly stuff is total red herring and a distraction from the real issue. I could care less if the place hosted kid parties all day long ! The problem with this plan is noisy drunks that will clutter the block with thier SMOKING at 2 am. Noisy women quacking into cell phones while smoking and other menacing. One of the biggest benefits of this neighborhood is that you dont have to step over too many quarts of puke splat on your way to work or be woken up by by drunks outside. Its a bad idea. Try Court Street ..

  • Stan

    Annoying… yes you are. Perhaps its time you allowed your family the privilege of moving you into that assisted living facility.

  • annoyying

    I suspect you dont live anywhere near the place. This explains your response.

  • Hicks & Clark

    When will “last-call” be at this new place? As a neighbor, I’m also more than a bit concerned about boisterous outside yakking at 2am on weekday evenings.
    Jonathan, did you mention whether the interior will be soundproofed? I might have missed a reply to that query.

  • The Where

    Annoying, yes you are. I live very close to the location and welcome it with open arms.

  • nancy

    Well I live there and nothing is more annoying NOW then the students congregating on the sidewalk, smoking and “quacking” into their cell phones. After all, no young men use cell phones screaming “Dude, when are we meeting up?, where’ the party” Nah, only us women “quackers.”

  • Simon

    I find coeds on their cell phones in the summer quite easy on the eyes.

  • plain jane

    yes, those awful SMOKERS with their QUACKING and MENACING! i know every time i pass a smoker, quacking and menacing into their cell phone, i reach for my pepper spray. and my god, YOUNG PEOPLE! even worse! can’t we just do away with all those pesky schools of higher education in the neighborhood? not in my backyard, i say! now that i think about it…PEOPLE. can we make sure no more PEOPLE come to this neighborhood?

    /sarcasm off/

    i live above a restaurant where people tend to congregate and smoke at night. if it bothers me, i shut the windows. problem solved. really, the solutions are just so simple sometimes!

  • harold tribbler

    i recently spent a morning at tea lounge in park slope.
    disaster.
    filthy.
    rude staff.
    loud.
    uncomfortable.
    average coffee. below average baked goods.
    filthy.
    asked for extra milk on the side, worker told me owner doesnt allow extra without money.but he didnt know how much to charge. nightmare!!!
    nice idea, very bad execution.
    cant last long!!!

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