By COLlive reporter
Owners of Basil Pizza and Wine Bar in Crown Heights are hoping that the new Jewish year brings them good luck and fortune once again.
The popular dairy restaurant, hailed for bringing a new experience to kosher dining, has been in turmoil since losing its kosher certification this past summer, as well as the departure of its manager Clara Perez.
Beginning this Sunday, the restaurant will be temporarily closed. “Basil will be closed on Sunday, Oct. 15th through Tuesday, Oct. 17th,” they announced. Basil will reopen on Wednesday, October 18, with a new chef and a revamped menu.
Owners told COLlive.com that the new chef will be heading up their new hospitality group of restaurants, which includes the long-awaited “Meat” and the recently opened “Bakerie.”
“We will be rolling out our new menu Wednesday,” they said, which will include “all our popular favorites as well as cutting-edge dishes the Kosher world has not seen before.”
As for the kosher status, they said: “It is definitely our intention to get it reinstated in the immediate future.”
Major trouble.
Bakrie keeps selling out, maybe if they ask forgiveness from the people ignoring a psak from a respectable beis din they’ll be able to keep up with demand.
Hopefully they will get a respectable hechsher soon and not use one of those phony hechshers.
Ever since they tried to prevent another business from opening, they have had troubles. Perhaps for success, they should beg forgiveness.
Jewish music please.
Dollars and cents you will make more money.
I know basil doesn’t rely on me for business but on my most recent trip to NY I didn’t eat at Basil bc of the lack of formal hechsher.
Wish they would start the new year with a hecsher! That is how we Jews eat food today. From a reliable hecsher.
If they get back their hechser I will be glad and happy to go back there and fress!!!
Waiting for the good news!
odd and funny how you back yard lounger laidegeyrs post here nonsense about this and that…are any of you even privy to the fact that Basil is mostly catering to flatbush, 5 towns and queens? If they had to count on us here it would be a broch.
hamayiin yovin
Great news col, thankS!
Service has always been way to slow
Did they get back their hechsher?
As long as they are self certified i wont eat there. Even if they have THE BEST food on the planet.
Will they have a new hechsher?
I hope they get the ok cerification back so we will have a nice place to eat at again