Just call it Bed Bath & Booze.
The home and accessories retailer, Bed Bath & Beyond, plans to create a restaurant serving wine and beer at its upcoming 120,000-square-foot Liberty View Industrial Plaza store in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
This move will expand BB&B’s offerings and allow shoppers to swig away and better experience the goods as they roam the aisles.
It will also create an eatery area that can be used by other tenants in the Salmar Properties-owned project, including Saks Off 5th and Amazon.
The restaurant, called Bay Market Kitchen, will be in a large common area on the second floor outside its main store entrance. The large floor plan will for the first time bring together BB&B along with its Buy Buy Baby, Cost Plus World Market and Harmon cosmetics divisions.
Many of the objects will be made in Brooklyn while the Market’s test kitchen will also feature Brooklyn food.
“This will be a very exciting development,” said Timothy King of CPEX, who represents the retail space in the 1.2 million- square-foot building.
Branding consultant and restaurateur Paul Millman, filed the New York State Liquor Authority permits for a restaurant with on-premises consumption by BB&B, together with his entity “Foundry Food Brooklyn.”
An SLA spokesman said the license was approved in August but will not be issued until certain work at the restaurant is complete. The SLA also shows an “inactive” liquor license for the Chelsea store, which also has a small café.
Sources said the store has a “soft opening” planned for Black Friday but a BB&B spokeswoman, did not return a request for comment.
