PROSPECT HEIGHTS — The Vanderbilt Avenue restaurant 606 R&D will close its doors this month, its owners announced Wednesday, due partly to business slowing down “during the frigid nights” this winter, they said.
The New American spot well-known for its weekly, family-style “Sunday Supper” will serve its last meals on Sunday, March 15, said co-owners Sara Dima and Ilene Rosen in a posting on their website.
“A number of factors contributed to this decision amongst them lack of business during the frigid nights of the past few months and our desire to focus on R&D Foods, our shop next door, which will remain open,” they said.
The pair will host one more “Sunday Supper” on March 8, they wrote in a Facebook post.
Dima and Rosen first opened the restaurant three years ago at 606 Vanderbilt Ave. near Sterling Place and opened their prepared food market, R&D Foods, a few doors down last year.
The announcement follows several notable closures in the Prospect Heights food scene this winter. Last month, the popular Vanderbilt Avenue Mexican spot Pequena closed its doors, citing a decrease in customers and a partnership change. In mid-December, the Italian trattoria Marco’s closed because it wasn’t “profitable enough,” said its owners who also run Franny’s and BKLYN Larder. Weeks earlier, the French Caribbean eatery Kaz An Nou closed on Sixth Avenue.
