Slutty Vegan To Open Fort Greene Outpost This Spring

FORT GREENE, BROOKLYN — A popular Atlanta-based vegan burger chain is coming to New York City.

Slutty Vegan, known for its cheekily-named burgers made with Impossible Meat, will open its first NYC outpost on the corner of Fulton Street and South Portland Avenue this spring, the eatery announced on Instagram.

Its soon-to-be-storefront at 690 Fulton Street will replace another vegan eatery, the Broccoli Bar, which closed last month after a two-year run — a vegan-for-vegan swap that's not lost on Pinky Cole, Slutty Vegan's CEO and founder.

"It's an honor to be opening a concept in such an established space, just down the street from where Biggie Smalls grew up, and to bring more delicious vegan food to the Brooklyn community," she said in a press release (indeed, 690 Fulton is known as the "Comandante Biggie building" after the mural on its facade).

While the spot is Slutty Vegan's first outside of Georgia — where it currently has four storefronts and a food truck — the outpost is a sort of homecoming for Cole.

"This is a full circle moment for me," she said, alluding to her first-ever (not vegan) restaurant in Harlem, which was forced to close in 2016 after a fire.

Two years later, though, Cole started Slutty Vegan out of her apartment, managing vegan burger orders over Instagram.

By popular demand, she quickly began selling burgers out of a food truck, and then opened her first brick-and-mortar store in 2018 featuring a stacked vegan menu of burgers, like the "One Night Stand" (a patty topped with vegan bacon and cheese, caramelized onions, lettuce, tomato, and the eatery's "Slut Sauce"), the "Fussy Hussy" (with pickles), or the "Sloppy Toppy" (with jalapeños).

Now the CEO of a vegan-burger-empire, which regularly has out-the-door lines and is beloved by celebrities, Cole has also become well known for her charitable endeavors and for empowering Black entrepreneurs, especially in the veganism space.

News of the Fort Greene outpost comes amid Slutty Vegan's nationwide expansion, with other openings reportedly slated across Georgia, Alabama, and Maryland.