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Opening Soon: La Bouillabaisse
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John Del Signore
Published Jun 2, 2008
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Published Jun 2, 2008
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Red Hook residents who used to party at Lillie’s bar on Beard Street may be surprised to discover that right next door to the decadent nightspot was an elegant restaurant waiting to be born. What was previously storage space has been thoroughly overhauled into a French bistro called La Bouillabaisse, which owner Neil Ganic (Petite Crevette) hopes to have running in time for the June 18th grand opening of IKEA, conveniently located across the street. (Ganic formerly operated an iteration of La Bouillabaisse on Atlantic Avenue.)
Lillie’s has now reopened as the renovated Annabelle's, named after Ganic's daughter. Co-owner Joseph Ficarra restored the bar to its original 1940s condition, refurbished the bathrooms, rehabilitated the tile floor, and lathered on some blue paint, perhaps to echo the Swedish big box across the street. La Bouillabaisse is connected to the refurbished barroom by an open doorway; the kitchen there will also provide a limited menu to the Annabelle's crowd. And in the back courtyard, a newly installed prep area will churn out oysters, po' boys, blue crab and pulled pork starting sometime this summer. La Bouillabaisse and Annabelle's, 44 Beard Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn. (718) 643-1500
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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