Brooklyn Nibbles: Slope & Gardens Edition

A few food and retail rumblings to report in Park Slope and Carroll Gardens:

1) Cafe Eleven, on Seventh Avenue between 11th and 12th Streets is now up and running. We passed by there yesterday to get the photo you see above and can report that it looks like a nice space. A writer on the Park Slope Forum describes it as "bustling with people." This is a good development, given Park Slope's significant shortage of cafe seats versus people who wish to sit in them. The storefront to the right in the photo above is also morphing into something new.

2) The space at the corner of 10th Street and Seventh Avenue that once house a Japanese restaurant and, most recently, an Asian soup spot, is being renovated into a new restaurant. Building permits are up, but no word on what the new place will be.

3) Drive by that oasis of fried Oreos on Fifth Avenue known as the Chip Shop, and you'll notice that it's been sliced in half. The Curry Shop part of the operation is no more and the space on the corner is now occupied by a new Turkish restaurant called Alaturka. Bye bye vindaloo, hello borek.

4) Finally, 'round Carroll Gardens way, our friends at Racked, the hot new Curbed retailing blog, report the opening Go Fish! It's a vintage furniture store and boutique on Sackett Street. They're at 187 Sackett Street, which is between Henry and Hicks. Go forth and shop some more.