Downtown dive bar set to close
Hank’s Saloon will shut its doors after fi ve months on Adams Street
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
Hank’s for all the memories.
Hank’s Saloon will shut
down for the second time after
only fi ve months at its Adams
Street location, according to its
owner.
The Downtown dive bar
will close its doors on June
14 because the owners of Hill
Country Food Park — the recently
shuttered food hall that
houses the watering hole on its
second fl oor near Willoughby
Street — will hand over the
building’s lease to a new operator,
the storied saloon’s owner
said on social media .
“After fi ve amazing months
and working our asses off nonstop,
Hill Country told us a few
days ago that someone else will
be taking over their lease asap
on the entire building on Adams
Street, and that the people
taking over don’t really have
any interest in continuing to
house Hank’s Saloon (they will
transforming it into a different
venue),” Julie Ipcar wrote on
the troubled tavern’s Facebook
page on May 25.
Hill Country’s owners
Marc and Kristen Glosserman
already closed the food hall on
May 3, according to spokeswoman
Leah Morgan, and the
new operators will bring in eateries
from “very well known
hospitality brands” later this
year, the company said in a
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separate statement.
“Hill Country Food Park has
closed for the season to make
way for some big changes,” the
statement read. “While we have
enjoyed stretching our culinary
wings at Food Park, we have decided
to focus on growing our
other Hill Country restaurants
and will be handing over the
reins to a new operator, who
will be curating a collection
of exciting new food offerings
from some very well-known
hospitality brands planned for
later this year. Details are being
fi nalized, and more information
regarding the new operator
as well as our involvement
will be coming soon.”
Hank’s Saloon took over a
second fl oor nook of the space
at the beginning of this year ,
after closing down its original
century-old Boerum Hill location
at the end of last year.
The honkey-tonk taproom
had just started to rebuild a
strong following over the past
couple of months and hosted a
number of live gigs on its stage
despite a challenging environment,
according to Ipcar’s post.
“In the short time we were
on Adams Street, the bar did
extremely well. We were rocking
it with packed happy hours
and fantastic nights of music,
and had just started building a
community in a neighborhood
that we were told was going to
be impossible to make work,” it
read.
She thanked the bar’s
staff for making their alehouse
in America’s Downtown
reminiscent of their
original digs and added that
she hopes to get lucky again
with a new location.
SHORT BUT SWEET: The storied alehouse opened in America’s Downtown at the beginning of this year after shuttering
its century-old original digs on Third Avenue in Boerum Hill at the end of 2018. Photo by Kevin Duggan
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