17/05/2024
“Petite Crevette, like its owner Neil Ganic, is a neighborhood mainstay, a part of the Brooklyn furniture. This tiny hole-in-the-wall, more New England seafood shack than Brooklyn food destination, has occupied its current storefront overlooking the BQE for the past 16 years. Before that, it was on Atlantic Avenue for another 20 as a fish market, where patrons could come and choose their cut of fish either to bring home or to have cooked for them.
The interior at 144 Union Street, with the entrance on Hicks, features tables draped with plastic lobster-printed tablecloths, walls of photos showing Ganic with various hot-shots and celebrities (look closely and you’ll spot Johnny Cash), life buoys and lobster traps and a statue of a n**e woman adorned with a backward baseball cap. I met with Ganic, who was sporting one of his signature hats before dinner service started at one of the lobster tablecloth-draped tables.”
Read the rest of Alice Gilbert’s “Petite Crevette and the yet-unnamed bar next door: 35 years of rebellious restaurant survival” article, which is linked in our bio.
