Seeking to Serve Booze: Red Hook Fried Chicken Joint, Plus 2 New Park Slope Eateries

PARK SLOPE and RED HOOK, BROOKLYN — Three new eateries, two in Park Slope and one in Red Hook, will seek community approval for a liquor license at the next meeting of Community Board 6.

CB 6 represents Carroll Gradens, Cobble Hill, Columbia Waterfront, Park Slope, Red Hook and Gowanus. The next meeting of the board's licensing committee, where the liquor license applications will be considered, will take place on Nov. 28 at 6:30 p.m. at the NYPD's 76th Precinct, located at 191 Union St.

(A quick reminder: community boards don't grant liquor licenses — that's up to the New York State Liquor Authority. But theoretically, that body takes the advisory opinion of community boards into consideration when deciding which licenses to approve.)

The new Park Slope applicants are Brooklyn Boy Catering, to be located at 388 5th Ave., and Nargis Bar & Grill, to be located at 155 5th Ave.

The already-existing Brooklyn Burgers & Beer, located at 259 5th Ave., is also seeking a new liquor license.

Meanwhile, future Red Hook eatery Hometown Pan Fried Chicken, to be located at 329 Van Brunt St., will also come before the committee.

The business is the work of bar-b-que expert Billy Durney, who previously opened Red Hook establishment Hometown Bar-B-Que in 2013, as reported by Eater.

The site reported that the business will have "a strong focus on delivery and take-out orders," while "the menu will be completely different from Hometown Bar-B-Que, so common items like coleslaw and baked beans will have distinct recipes at Hometown Fried Chicken."

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