The Flower Shop
Bar · Lower East Side
107 Eldridge St, New York, NY 10002
Highlights
70s-style space with a downstairs bar, pool table, and photo booth
70s-style space with a downstairs bar, pool table, and photo booth
"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
"The Flower Shop is decorated with vintage photographs, flower-printed booths, and a pink fireplace, but it doesn’t exactly feel like a throwback to the ’70s. That is, unless parties in the ’70s were packed with owners of famous corgis in scoop neck t-shirts drinking vodka sodas. The crowded downstairs area of this two-floor bar on the LES is a good spot to dance in close proximity to strangers willing to hear about “what you do for work.” If there’s a line for the downstairs bar - which is pretty common after around midnight on weekends - get a table or order a drink at the bar in the more casual space upstairs." - hannah albertine, nikko duren, bryan kim, matt tervooren
