{"id":239813,"date":"2026-05-21T21:47:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T21:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/239813\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T21:47:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T21:47:43","slug":"alison-roman-is-opening-a-store-in-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/239813\/","title":{"rendered":"Alison Roman is opening a store in Brooklyn."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good afternoon, everyone. <\/p>\n<p>I had a lunch meeting at Sant Ambroeus (Brookfield) today, and I think it was the first time I\u2019d ever had their fries. Very hot and crunchy (vs. crispy), which makes me think they batter them. Which you can\u2019t say for many lunchtime fries. As I was walking out of the restaurant, I noticed many tables of suits also had bowls of the fries. Maybe I\u2019m late to the game.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s newsletter includes: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/users\/253367-alison-roman?utm_source=mentions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Alison Roman&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:253367,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/5cc7de7f-707f-43ab-a30c-1f2905ff4886_1773x1773.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;1c6db2a5-41b2-422a-99d6-e6115acbb044&quot;}\" data-component-name=\"MentionUser\" class=\"mention-pnpTE1\">Alison Roman<\/a> is opening a store in New York (and hiring a baker), a former Eric Adams staffer donated to Spencer Pratt\u2019s mayoral campaign, and 831 Books is getting into the movie business.<\/p>\n<p>Have a tip for me? Want to tell me something? Respond to this email or reach out to emily@readfeedme.com<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!9Z6K!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F407a7d18-8f35-495e-9f0f-55ad580fa682_1456x1048.png\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img can-restack\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/407a7d18-8f35-495e-9f0f-55ad580fa682_1456.jpeg\" width=\"1456\" height=\"1048\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/407a7d18-8f35-495e-9f0f-55ad580fa682_1456x1048.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1048,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:1485968,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.readfeedme.com\/i\/198760124?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F407a7d18-8f35-495e-9f0f-55ad580fa682_1456x1048.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" alt=\"\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"sizing-normal\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the Feed Me Tip Line: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dockerswaterside\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dockers<\/a>, beloved seaside restaurant in Quogue, had a really serious fire yesterday. Inside totally wrecked. Tough timing right before MDW.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DYlJWmEBOhB\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">They\u2019ll be closed this weekend.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good afternoon, everyone. I had a lunch meeting at Sant Ambroeus (Brookfield) today, and I think it was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-239813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}