Williamsburg Shop Replacing Brooklyn Heights Cookware Store

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS, NY — A Williamsburg kitchen shop plans to take over the storefront of the well-loved Atlantic Avenue cookware store that owners shuttered earlier this year.

Whisk, which has locations in Williamsburg and Manhattan, will open their third outpost at 197 Atlantic Ave. next month and take over from A Cook's Companion which closed in February, the Brooklyn Paper reported.

"We were also fans of A Cook's Companion and will do our darn best to keep everyone happy with our selections," owners of Whisk wrote in a note posted on the store's window.

Owners plan to stock many of the same brands as the old storefront and will open up their doors a bit early to fill Soda Stream canisters, which residents missed since the original shop closed, the Brooklyn Paper reported.

After nearly 20 years of business, Jennifer Baron closed down A Cook's Companion to spend more time with her elderly parents, travel and "slow down," she previously told Patch.

"It's been a joy in my life to have this store," said Baron. "We decided to have a great business we're going to close on our terms and do what we want to do for a little while."

The space first opened near the Cobble Hill border in 1997 providing the neighborhood with supplies from brands like Wüstof and Le Creuset.

It became loving dubbed "Brooklyn Panhandlers" by locals and was voted the best cookware store in the city by the Zagat Marketplace in 2007, the New York Magazine reported.

Unlike other small business in the city, Baron said she wasn't pushed out by her landlord but decided it was time to spend more time outside of the shop.

Whisk plans to take over for the space on May 1, according to social media posts.

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