It finally came together workers are currently getting things ready and being trained, and Wladis says it will open “this weekend” once again as Big Gay Ice Cream, with the same ice cream and format, but with additional items, like hot chocolate, tea, pastries and donuts, and some vegan choices. He also contacted the original owners, who are still in business at the South Street Seaport, to see if he could license the name and their products. “When the place went vacant I went to the landlord,” he said. Just in time for summer, the shuttered Big Gay Ice Cream shop on Columbus Avenue and 85th Street is about to reopen with a new lease on life, and the Amsterdam Avenue mainstay Fred’s has a new owner.īoth have been taken over by veteran West Side restaurateur and UWS resident Jeremy Wladis, who already owns and operates the popular “Good Enough to Eat”, “Harvest Kitchen”, and the recently opened “Nina’s Burrito Bar.”įriendly and gregarious, Wladis recalled that, from his perch at Good Enough To Eat on the opposite corner from Big Gay Ice Cream, “I would sit there watching them, and frankly I was jealous” of their long lines of customers waiting to buy ice-cream.
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