{"id":241261,"date":"2026-05-23T00:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T00:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/241261\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T00:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T00:28:11","slug":"chef-alison-roman-to-open-cafe-grocery-in-brooklyn-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/241261\/","title":{"rendered":"Chef Alison Roman to open cafe\/grocery in Brooklyn Heights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BROOKLYN HEIGHTS \u2013 COOKBOOK AUTHOR AND chef Alison Roman is set to open an outpost of her boutique grocery\/cafe concept store First Bloom in Brooklyn Heights this fall, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curbed.com\/article\/alison-roman-brooklyn-heights-first-bloom-grocery-cafe.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">reports Curbed<\/a>, expanding from its first location in the Catskills.<\/p>\n<p>The store is set to have a small cafe and coffee bar, as well as a retail floor. First Bloom describes its offerings as simple and tasty: \u201cThe best versions of the simplest thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roman, who shot to fame developing recipes from her home kitchen in a third-floor Brooklyn walkup, is hiring for several positions, including a head chef and head baker. She did not confirm the store\u2019s location, although some speculated that the former site of the Bentley\u2019s shoe store on Montague Street, where a for-rent sign recently came down, could fit the bill.<\/p>\n<p>The influencer said she wanted to keep the store low-key, writing in her newsletter, \u201cWe\u2019re catering to a neighborhood of real people, not the internet.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lara Birnback of the Brooklyn Heights Association, in a statement to the Eagle, welcomed Roman to the neighborhood, writing, \u201cAlison, you\u2019ve made a great choice! I\u2019m sure the Brooklyn Heights community will welcome First Bloom with open arms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2730\u2730\u2730<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <a style=\"font-size: inherit; background-color: #fefefe;\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyneagle.com\/whats-news-breaking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wnb-read-more aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/read-more-wnb-shad-1024x341.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BROOKLYN HEIGHTS \u2013 COOKBOOK AUTHOR AND chef Alison Roman is set to open an outpost of her boutique&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[93726,3302,98,100,99,8894,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-241261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-alison-roman","tag-breaking","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-food-and-drink","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241261","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=241261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}