The Flower Shop
Bar · Lower East Side ·
70s-themed bar with pool table, dance floor, and great food
70s-themed bar with pool table, dance floor, and great food
"A nearly decade-old neighborhood hangout for fashion, art, and music types on the Lower East Side is getting a reboot as Eddie Huang takes over the kitchen, bringing an eclectic, bar-food-driven lineup that debuts Tuesday, November 11, with service from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. across the ground floor and reservations on Resy. After a summertime residency inside the pub at 107 Eldridge Street testing a modern Chinese menu tied to his forthcoming Gazebo project, he returns to cook the bar dishes his way: coconut shrimp that nods to his Florida roots; a fried fish sandwich inspired by his dad’s Coco’s Floribbean Grill; a yinz-style mortadella sandwich recalling Primanti’s; New England steak tips from recipes learned from his Greek in-laws; an onion biały tuna melt influenced by Kossar’s; and a spinach dip that swaps artichokes for pickled mustard greens with his proprietary chile oil. The spot previously served a straightforward lineup of maitake rigatoni, shrimp tacos, and pan-roasted cauliflower steak." - Tierney Plumb
"A summer dinner pop-up from Eddie Huang operating in the Flower Shop that offers a three-course, $80 menu spotlighting olive oil from the chef’s wife’s family estate in Greece and dishes such as dan dan noodles with cherrystone clams and pancetta, lion’s head meatballs, and whole-tail lobster toast with Hainan-style lobster claws over rice." - Melissa McCart
"While The Flower Shop is better known as a place for recent college graduates to go dancing on the Lower East Side, this summer, it’s hosting Gazebo, a pop-up restaurant from chef Eddie Huang, formerly of Baohaus. The food is mainly Chinese, with some Mediterranean influences—including in the form of Greek olive oil from Huang’s wife’s family farm. The three-course prix fixe is $80, and it needs to be pre-booked. Their website promises dinner is “a little bit club night” too. We haven’t been here yet, but want you to know this spot exists." - Will Hartman
"This seasonal residency presents a three-course, dance-music–influenced modern Chinese prix fixe (about $80 per person) running June–September on select evenings as a test run for a future New York restaurant. The menu is notably "fueled" by olive oil from the chef’s wife’s family field in Greece and has featured dan dan noodles dressed with cherrystone clams and pancetta, lion’s head meatballs, whole-tail lobster toast with Hainan-style lobster claws over rice, a Peruvian-style ceviche with Hokkaido scallops, Marcona almonds, and tiger’s milk, plus monthly experimental dishes (including a quesadilla adaptation to get the chef’s son to eat an Iberico-and-clam stew). Dinner seatings are typically at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m., and inaugural nights have sold out." - Tierney Plumb
"For some reason, there seem to be a lot of ’70s-themed bars in the city at the moment. The Flower Shop is another one, and it’s in a two-story space on the Lower East Side. The ground floor is a restaurant, and down of a flight of stairs you’ll find a big bar area with orange carpets, a big pink fireplace, and a pool table. It’s the closest you’ll get to a retro house party on the Lower East Side, and it tends to attract people who only just recently stopped throwing parties at their parents’ homes." - bryan kim
