The bar at Ingas in Brooklyn Heights.
Photograph: Michael Harlan Turkell
In early 2022, wife-and-husband restaurateurs Caron Callahan and Sean Rembold opened Ingas Bar in a residential nook of Brooklyn Heights. In a short time, it turned a neighborhood staple, its candlelit coziness making it superb for date nights, with households piling in for brunch throughout the daytime hours. Now, these good vibes will prolong to a different neighborhood — Boerum Hill — because the couple has taken over the nook house beforehand inhabited by Café Kitsuné.
“We weren’t actively in search of an area,” says Rembold. Different real-estate alternatives had come up, however he and Callahan wished to be “choosy and picky” as to when and the place they’d land subsequent. This house, on the nook of Bond and Pacific, simply felt proper. “We’ve informed ourselves that is Ingas’s older sister,” Rembold says. There’s no title but, and all the things remains to be in planning phases, however overlap with Ingas’s gastrotavern cooking ought to be minimal. (It’s price noting that Rembold labored for Andrew Tarlow at Diner and Marlow & Sons, companion eating places that shared a sensibility however little else.)
The couple and their two youngsters dwell within the neighborhood, and Rembold says locals will finally dictate the ultimate type. “If we’re not targeted on the regulars, it’s not for us. The vibe, really feel, and workers come earlier than the meals,” he says, mentioning that the brand new place ought to lend itself to any life situation: “celebration, knocking off work, household on the town from out of city, after-school pickup, or simply ’trigger.”
One huge cause the couple wished to develop was out of consideration for his or her workers. “We wished upward mobility for our workers,” Rembold says. “We’re fortunate to have low turnover at Ingas — they’re our true impetus for artistic development.”
The couple is tentatively eyeing late winter or early spring for a gap date, and the look of the house is a methods off, however Rembold says that Callahan, a designer, loves small, distinctive areas with corners that supply extra pure mild. She’ll be the one to visualise the décor, from customized napkins to the candle scent within the rest room. There’s additionally an connected bar subsequent door on Bond, which will likely be a later venture. (Ingas has its personal non-public eating room with its personal entrance.) The information has already began to make its method across the neighborhood, and for the individuals who dwell close by, the restaurant’s arrival probably can’t come quickly sufficient.
The Caesar-esque celery Victor, a signature at Ingas.
Photograph: Michael Harlan Turkell
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