S&P Luncheonette Is Hosting a Bar Pop-Up For the Next Month | Eater NY
"A beloved luncheonette from the team behind Court Street Grocers, and formerly the longtime Eisenberg’s, this spot has been a crowd favorite since day one for excellent sandwiches (we’re partial to the Mel Brooks), great people-watching, and unpretentious interiors — even boasting a celebrity investor (looking at you, Nicholas Braun). What it didn’t have up until now was nighttime service, but for a month that changes: A Pop-Up Called Pancakes is a new after-hours bar residency running on select days at the restaurant. Launched by Izzy Tulloch and Danielle De Block, alums of Milady’s and Clover Club, there will be creative cocktails and comforting bar bites to match; as Tulloch says, “We want a hyper-focus on hospitality that feels comfortable and cocktails that feel whimsical.” It runs Friday through Sunday from May 3 to June 1, from 7 p.m. until midnight, with service “order-at-the-bar style, no reservations needed.” Fans of Tulloch will be happy to hear she’s reprising a version of her Ants on a Log cocktail — “which takes the best parts of the childhood snack of peanut butter, celery, and raisin and turns it into an adult drink” — a drink that has become something of her signature. Other cocktails include the Banana Dose (a tropical, clarified highball made with real bananas and 99 Bananas), a Manhattan riff infused with Taylor ham (Tulloch: “We’re both from New Jersey, and we love a diner.”), martini service poured out of maple syrup jars, and more. To complement the drinks there’s a brief-but-fun menu from the restaurant’s chef Kirstyn Brewer featuring latke sliders, peanut butter–miso mousse, and the house pancakes. While Pancakes is a month-long pop-up, owners see it as both a pilot for eventual regular nighttime service — “The goal is eventually to figure that out, I don’t know exactly when, but it’s the plan,” Finkelstein says — and a stepping stone for Tulloch and De Block’s longer-term project, A Bar Called Pancakes (no lease signed yet), with Finkelstein adding, “We love her and what she does and wanted to help her figure it out in any way.”" - Emma Orlow
