{"id":300753,"date":"2026-07-20T16:20:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T16:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/300753\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T16:20:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T16:20:27","slug":"ev-grieve-barryville-general-expanding-next-door-on-avenue-a-with-a-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/300753\/","title":{"rendered":"EV Grieve: Barryville General expanding next door on Avenue A with a cafe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjhugZMR6vx0Wh4N1HirpkSypSSKnYWp9xURkBGIqs1vwk93nUAuiTC5mOwYVmtnW8GgcpxmiPk39AdvKoZvRf7WzpmylI_Z0kNflt5-hxmAMN-VCzz_YnimpvqXVFVbLBWPJ9z4nY0ekR0JmHWsv-VTdg8BZAZbmonTiLemOVYE-FdthK83LnEUJeySb4\/s2272\/viruswalk_7-16-26_r_w_058.jpg\" style=\"display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1515\" data-original-width=\"2272\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/viruswalk_7-16-26_r_w_058.jpg\" width=\"480\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy<\/p>\n<p>Co-owner Sean Naughton, an East Village resident for 32 years, said food and coffee have long been part of the Barryville General concept, though the Avenue A shop was its first location without either.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh41n-fWDmxPlVsWya40g7M3BDZHrFu8SByGWGwIX4EPPhUVPeUevqvUH2OvS3dE4dFBouhHdsIPx493Z9m8VWBU-fc61e7SGS7-Q5HXBJXBlIFzU5T_T3rOZ57xx8ct2LJwl2Fapa2919aiDDW-29ZUZ1g654Bl6caYzpLSxKdUHo2aU2Ya5-XdEV64rI\/s2272\/viruswalk_7-16-26_r_w_035.jpg\" style=\"display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/viruswalk_7-16-26_r_w_035.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have always aspired to do it in the East Village,&#8221; he said.\u00a0The expansion will operate under the same name and connect to the existing shop through a pass-through, while also maintaining its own entrance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjltgZnUGIjmogTLt3lp-LdYKot2AsBbM_JUUPmbqvgFbjn_ZnG0vdKyN_HIdidv9H0ARoZnKlQFz6SeM2xGfqJhRibyRRx-mSFY1exxM5U7F0amvsiy5GyP727w8htqFjG5SqtGX2zdcKh1iO1eXd5moc1NGx7mvlvmHXjO6vxGq7IBU8cFklCzgqFnZM\/s1704\/viruswalk_7-16-26_r_w_032.jpg\" style=\"display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/viruswalk_7-16-26_r_w_032.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgdcxMgglC0FjhIR-4YWFBORYgTlFQSCPfuEFaBn_ehlGYfIlw69rbc7kq5TRSkipkfYIUYQx6WtpqoqxARUkbKyNqM1xED9fxBqPBHGR3WyYjglAN823u4DgEj91FsgrZbeFq38aKizvuAMmMVBin-JiT9E3EXGJtPauubJfaPDTCid9bOjlRCL9ii4xQ\/s1704\/viruswalk_7-16-26_r_w_051.jpg\" style=\"display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/viruswalk_7-16-26_r_w_051.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The caf\u00e9 will serve espresso from a local Cuban coffee company, along with baked goods and a simple grab-and-go menu featuring a few Cuban-inspired items. Plans also call for nondairy soft serve from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavenderandtruffles.com\/?srsltid=AfmBOoq1FiSL0kk0xgzz9AkCDicb_Z9NEmZmQWWqPmXHmDkVgY8_4tAo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lavender and Truffles<\/a>.\u00a0Naughton said they spoke with neighboring Lucky Coffee, <a href=\"https:\/\/evgrieve.com\/2026\/04\/openings-lucky-cafe-on-avenue-a.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">which opened this spring<\/a>, before finalizing the menu and, out of respect, will not offer matcha. Instead, the new space will focus on espresso, caf\u00e9 fare and soft serve.\u00a0Barryville General is aiming for an August opening. The caf\u00e9 is expected to open in the morning for coffee and pastries and remain open into the evening for soft serve. A to-go window is also under consideration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgcTK3CTOUVVzN64wMrCjHD7cJ4cGa8mNf8c7OaHrkYOinyaRXeJM7K1cCTR0N8dPrEqwvYUrhcR6XKoFjYro9RHhFqoaddfWrh4t6FwR7ZDaNTECotA8oSUTNeFMzVFig-rIgUc1zzlmhOmhwIODs4jDsftn8yvTSUEg_6HwVzhyphenhyphenEarSzdJ3SC5UoifUU\/s2272\/viruswalk_7-16-26_r_w_072.jpg\" style=\"display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/viruswalk_7-16-26_r_w_072.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The shop carries a curated selection of home goods, apparel (officially unisex, though it is predominantly menswear), and pantry items.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Founded by a husband-and-wife team, Eric Komovoff and Sharone Komovoff, the East Village marked the store&#8217;s second location, which opened upstate in Barryville and later relocated to Southampton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy Co-owner Sean Naughton, an East Village resident for 32 years, said food&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-300753","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\/300753","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=300753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}