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Welcome to your monthly gifts, happenings, and reflections from your favorite neighborhood diner in Brooklyn: Fat Rabbit
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Menu Highlight: It’s Spritz-O’Clock
Happy Pride Month, New York. Check out our rainbow of spritzes — only $12 all month long.
What to read next:
Little Histories, Profiles and Untold Stories from the Restaurant Industry.
After years in the restaurant industry Sam Barron began interviewing the people who make it happen. Not just chefs and owners, but the people behind the scenes who keep restaurants running.
Nothing is more fun than the restaurant business. It’s like making Hollywood movies or being a rock star. Very few succeed. In fact, 90% of all restaurants will fail in the first two years. These broken dreams and busted bank accounts leave in their wake a number of suicides, either by hand or by bottle. Most folks in the industry will remember when Brooklyn’s great restaurateur and pioneer took his own life.
Bootstrap will return next month with an inspirational profile of Dio, the refrigeration guru, the literal Coolest Guy in Brooklyn. This month, however, we invite you to consider some of the industry’s harsh realities most often ignored by media outlets that overwhelmingly favor fluff pieces about corporate expansions and first-timers who happened upon a recipe book in their grandmother’s attic. If you prefer light reading, we harbor no grudge against you. But if you are interested in the struggles inside the food and bev biz, we invite you to read the first chapter of Soft Opening, a novel by Sam Barron, which details his misadventures in opening a restaurant in 2012.
Secret Menu Reveal, available NOW:
Fried Chicken Sandwich & Spritzes
Summer has a new uniform. Our Cabbage Patch Kid sandwich comes with coleslaw, pickled jalapeno and a mustard-mayo sauce, and pairs perfectly with one of our Pride Month spritzes: colorful, refreshing, and only $12.
Also new this June:
Shrimp Ceviche, Gazpacho, and two BEERS ON TAP.
Complete Fat Rabbit Secret Menu
Everyday Happy Hour: $8-10 drinks, $9-12 bites, $14 combos: Martini & Fries, Sloop & Sliders, Bud & Fried Bites
Monday: All Day Happy Hour!
Tuesday: $13 Old Fashioned and Negronis
Wednesday: $13 House Martinis
Thursday: $12 Floridita Daiquiris
Sunday: $4 Shitty Beers + Drag Race reruns