NY Mag’s Grub Street announced our impending opening last week. Not sure why they chose to post a photo that featured our unfinished menu board, but hey.
Here’s the link: ABV Wine Bar Almost Ready to Start Pouring and Cooking.
NY Mag’s Grub Street announced our impending opening last week. Not sure why they chose to post a photo that featured our unfinished menu board, but hey.
Here’s the link: ABV Wine Bar Almost Ready to Start Pouring and Cooking.
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Let me get you up to speed!
We assembled the shelving for the wine room. We picked up our license from the SLA last week, so this puppy is on its way to being full.
All of our friends who come to see us get put to work, especially those who are handy. Here, McCloskey attaches our table bases.
We bought a desk for the office at a church rummage sale. Noah walked it the 5 blocks to our bar using a hand truck. Here, Mike and Noah assess the best way to get it down the hatch.
We hung our menu boards. We're waiting for our last batch of letters to arrive. At one point, we contemplated basing our menus on what letters we had.
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We’ve been busier than elves. I’m happy to report that construction is done and now we’re on to the details.
Kitchen refrigeration went in. All equipment is installed and working. Corey is in there cooking today. Wait til you see what we're doing with that 4 inch pipe on the counter.
Putting together the office chairs. IT equipment all installed. Carpet arriving tomorrow. Hanging shelves and wine maps today.
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Hum to the tune of “Here Comes Santa Claus”.
Epoxy on the kitchen and back bar floors was finished last week, which meant we could start bringing our equipment in.
Here comes her big sister down the street. Our landlord was kind enough to let us house all of our equipment in his not-yet-rented commercial space next door during our build out.
Adjusting the legs on the fryer. This may be the piece of kitchen equipment and I am most excited about. I haven't used a commercial fryer since making taco shells during my salad girl days.
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It’s not my two front teeth. I’m sure you all can guess. I am happy to announce that all construction will be wrapped up by this weekend.
We poured the floors behind both bars. They've since been covered with grippy, waterproof epoxy. We'll be starting to move equipment in today!
Con Ed installed our meter this week. Our landlord was thrilled by the holes in the sidewalk and on Lexington Ave.
Mike working on more of our lighting. With all of our extra time, we're going to start a lamp manufacturing business on the side. All of our lights will be hung by tomorrow.
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With all that has been going on, we weren’t planning on making our annual trek upstate for Thanksgiving. Instead, we invited our families to NYC, to celebrate with us, at our unfinished bar. A charming idea that required quite a bit of work, but was a success.
The kitchen equipment wasn't going to be ready (which also posed some unique challenges for the holiday), but the Ansul system was.
We thought some lights would be nice. We're making many of the fixtures ourselves. Here, Noah is cutting some pipe.
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This week we installed the bar framing. This piece needed a little trim to fit properly around the floor drain.
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Time Out New York recently had a feature on new-school wine bars and we made the hotly-anticipated list.
Much has happened since the last progress report.
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Our very first press mention. Check it out at NY Mag’s Grub Street.
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