Eats
Vegan fave by CHLOE to Coffee Shop spot
BY GABE HERMAN
After Union Square staple The
Coffee Shop closed last October
after 28 years in business,
a picture has started to form of some
of the shops slated to fi ll the former
Brazilian-American restaurant’s
space.
The ground-fl oor property, at E.
16th St. and Union Square West, will
be split into four retail spaces. One of
them will be fi lled by a new location
for by CHLOE, the popular vegan
eatery, according to Eater.
The interior of by CHLOE will
reportedly honor The Coffee Shop’s
legacy, including featuring curved
banquette seating and an homage to
the diner’s neon sign.
A fast-casual restaurant, by CHLOE
has been expanding a great deal lately,
after its fi rst location opened in
the Village in 2015, at the corner of
Bleecker and MacDougal Sts.
That location is still going strong. A
bakery offshoot, Sweets by CHLOE,
opened the following year next door
at 185 Bleecker.
The business is expanding glob-
PHOTO BY GABE HERMAN
The first by CHLOE restaurant, at Bleecker and MacDougal Sts., has been
popular since opening in 2015.
ally and around the U.S., including
six more Manhattan locations. Last
week another by CHLOE opened at
1385 Broadway, at W. 38th St., and
in October its fi rst takeout-only location
will come to Lexington Ave.
and E. 54th St., according to Eater.
The new Union Square location
will reportedly open this December.
Another space that was part of The
Coffee Shop will become a Chase
bank branch.
The other two commercial spaces
reportedly will be fi lled by other restaurants,
which have not been announced
yet.
Gail Fox, the former co-chairperson
of the Union Square Community
Coalition, said she did not
understand the need for another
Chase bank in the area, unless it was
a convenient pop-up size, but that
she was pleased with the news about
by CHLOE.
“I am looking forward to CHLOE’s
opening in The Coffee Shop space,”
Fox said. “Sounds like they will add
vibrancy to the square and will preserve
and respect The Coffee Shop
memory and artifacts — a themed
space, plus tasty vegan.”
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