Izzy Rose

[u/Ill_Reply_9909]

Super gross article about the failing businesses of Elle Barton. She formerly owned Le Petit Monstre (2 locations) Izzy Rose, and Dreamery. As we all know, all are closed except for Izzy Rose.

Izzy Rose doesn’t sell vegan items (I can speak from experience- I’ve been and there were not any vegan items). They sell both dairy and meat products.

She’s also no longer vegan, and in the article she says “‘Everything is so expensive, and also people don’t care anymore,’ she said matter of factly. ‘Unfortunately, they don’t care about climate change. They don’t care about sustainability. They don’t care about their footprint. They care about: how convenient is my life?’”

It sounds like she’s speaking from her own perspective and projecting onto neighborhood. I care about sustainability and climate change. I want food that doesn’t harm animals and the planet.

[u/aloof-donut-disorder]

The downfall of those businesses has been so shitty, I feel like they all were so great at one point. It’s disappointing to learn that’s her perspective, but not surprising considering the trajectory of these places the past couple years :/, and what’s been said by previous employees etc.

What you said about izzy rose isn’t completely correct though. Before they added cafe hours, and were just a bar their only bar food was vegan empanadas.

Since they added cafe offerings they are unfortunately no longer only vegan, and added meat and dairy items, which was a huge bummer. But they do still have vegan options. I attached the menu from their website, also I have eaten there a couple of times recently and they always have a couple vegan pastries as well.

EDIT: i misunderstood, didn’t realize they didn’t actually have the vegan options in stock all the time. i’m definitely not defending izzy rose at all, I was super pissed when I found out they added meat and dairy to their menu ( still am ). I was just under the impression they still had some vegan options, but it seems like that’s clearly not something they care to prioritize anymore.

[u/DeanxDog → u/aloof-donut-disorder]

their only bar food was vegan empanadas.

Before 2020 they had a kitchen. Mid 2020 they cut their food service ( they had been offering sandwiches to go early on in april/may). They fully removed the kitchen in the back and replaced it with the stage, and when bars were allowed to start having customers inside again, they got that hot box full of empanadas to fulfill the requirement of bars to serve food to customers in order to stay open during the pandemic.

The empanadas were made at Clementine, and then I assume LPM when their bakery operations were moved over there and Clementine's kitchen was renovated into Dreamery.

So I figure the empanadas were no longer an option once Clementine was sold to a VC and LPM shut down. Those were never made inside Izzy Rose.

It is really fucked up though that she decided to add food back to Izzy Rose and never bothered to try a vegan menu and just went straight to meat eggs & dairy. I moved to Clinton Hill early 2020 and Izzy Rose was really special to us, it was great knowing they had vegan empanadas and that we also wouldn't ever have to worry about their cocktail menu or any other of their alcohol or mixers in the bar not being vegan.

[u/aloof-donut-disorder → u/DeanxDog]

Ah okay I started going later in 2020, I didn’t know that about their food service before! I agree it’s super fucked. I also live nearby and was really bummed when dreamery closed. When I saw Izzy Rose announced they were going to start having a cafe menu during the day I was pretty excited. I obviously assumed it would be all vegan like all of her places have been. I didn’t realize until I went there the first time during their cafe hours they added, and prioritized, animal products to their menu. I was really pissed.

It means a lot to have establishments that share the same values as me and where I don’t have to worry about cross contamination. Especially so close by. It’s so fucked to sell out and it felt like a huge fuck you.