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Heard it Through the Grapevine

Olive Vine Cafe is coming back!

The middle-eastern eatery located on Seventh Avenue between Union and Berkeley that was destroyed by a fire in August 2004 is moving to 54 Seventh Street.

Seventh STREET?

Yup, that's what it says on a sign posted on the window of the burned out store.

But that doesn't make any sense. So OTBKB made a quick trip to 54 Seventh AVENUE and found the future home of delectable salads, pita, lentil soup and falafel.

Olive Vine is going IN and Prints Charming, a small framing and print shop, is moving OUT. In all her years in the Slope, OTBKB has never once set foot inside the shop. And now it's too late: oh well. They always had lovely framed floral prints, and labels from orange crates displayed in the window.

OTBKB heard that the August fire began in the kitchen in Olive Vine. It spread to Zuzu's Petals to its south and the large Korean market to its north. The demise of the beloved Zuzu's Petals inspired a neighborhood campaign to save the store. 375 Fifth Avenue, between Sixth and Seventh Streets is the new home of abundant floral arrangements and plantings.

So far, nothing has been done to clean up the severely damaged one-story building that used to house the three stores. One hopes that the landlord will tidy up the mess so that stretch of Seventh Avenue can be returned to its former glory.

One hopes.

Miracle on Third Street

Here's a tip for those of you just dying to know what's going into that corner storefront on Third Street and Seventh Avenue that used to be a Peruvian chicken place with a gigantic mural that looked like a rock climbing wall.

Well, OTBKB knows!

Miracle Grill, a popular and well-regarded southwestern eatery in the East Village, is opening an outpost in the hungry borough. Bobby Flay, the first chef at Miracle Grill back in the 1980's, went on to open Mesa Grill, Bolo and other hot restaurants. The First Avenue Miracle Grill continues to be a well-run, attractive, and delicious place to go for unusual Mexican food and drinks. It should be a tasty addition the Slope's dinner and brunch scene (eggs benedict with cornbread and chipotle hollondaise), not to mention take-out.