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New Neighbor: Wine Bar at 50 Henry

The space formerly known as Uncommon Grounds and touted to become UCG has unveiled itself as the Wine Bar at 50 Henry Street. The Brooklyn Eagle reports: Brooklyn Eagle: Corner of Cranberry Gets Social: Amanda Green, general manager, does admit to having put a lot of thought into what was going to work. “We wanted […]

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CB2 to UCG: OK

As reported yesterday, the reimagined Uncommon Grounds asked CB2 last night to approve its application for outdoor seating. The board voted to allow the proposal: 6 for, 2 against, 3 abstentions. The CB2 Executive Committee will make a final ruling before the board’s next meeting.

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Eagle – NoHe Food Scene is Hot

The Brooklyn Eagle reports that the North Heights food scene is booming (just like we did in March).  The paper focuses its piece mostly on the reinvented "Corner of Cranberry" ventures, notably the recently opened Oven.  It touches briefly upon the real drivers of this renaissance — Jack the Horse Tavern and Le Petit Marche […]

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“Busy Chef” Busy Copying and Pasting?

Among the many oddities that we are aware of surrounding the “Corner of Cranberry” (and there are quite a few), one of the silliest is alleged “copyright and trademark infringement”. Though that’s probably not the case, we’ve actually received a couple of emails about this, and a commenter “Capulets” brought it up again: Check this […]

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CoC Redux?

While it’s still unclear what the relationship between the new ventures at the spot formerly known as “Corner of Cranberry” is, Brooklyn Enthusiast reports that the “chef” of Busy Chef is providing baked goods for new coffeehouse/performance venue Uncommon Grounds. Recently, BHB reported that the other new restaurant opening at the former CoC, Oven, was […]

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Cranberry Corner is Poppin’

The new coffee shop at Cranberry and Henry, Uncommon Grounds, continues its series of “invitation only” events tonight with The Groove Project, Heights Jazz on Friday and a private party on Saturday. Clearly our invitations have been lost in the mail. According to Qfwfq, last night’s event at UG, featuring comic Andy Vastola, appeared to […]

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Open Thread Wednesday

Another week, another bunch of stuff to talk about. Yassky Voting for Pedicabs [epc] – Are pedicabs really stupid? Uncommon Grounds, can it be the real deal?  Have you seen The Sublet Experiment? The dangerous intersection at Adams Street. What needs to be done?  Want a wedding dress?  And ofcourse, we expect to see you […]

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