Last year, Chef Anthony Theocaropoulos opened Cooklyn to "celebrate [the] vibrancy and creativity of Brooklyn" by incorporating local artisinal foods into the restaurant's menu.
Now the Prospect Heights eatery is opening a second location in Palm Beach, Florida, the Brooklyn Eagle Daily reports.
Cooklyn isn't the only New York City business to first model itself as a bona fide neighborhood joint, then capitalize on its urban cred in larger markets. That's not an easy thing to do; the task of expanding your operation while preserving its regional flavor is inherently a paradoxical one.
DNAinfo rounded up a few establishments that have managed to keep up appearances as authentic New York institutions while exporting their authenticity to other locales.
► THE LATIN LUNCHEONETTE: Café Habana opened its first location at the corner of Prince and Elizabeth streets in 1998. Serving grilled Mexican corn cobs, Cuban sandwiches and cheese flan, the cramped eatery catered to young scenesters and older emigrés seated at tightly packed formica-topped tables. It took its inspiration from a storied Mexico City lunch spot where Fidel Castro supposedly plotted the Cuban revolution.
Today Café Habana has three locations in New York, one in New Orleans, another in Malibu, and a third in—we're not kidding—Dubai.
► THE PIZZERIA: Pasquale Grimaldi opened his namesake pizzeria at 19 Old Fulton Street in 1991, serving pies that Zagat would vote "Best Pizza" year after year. In 1998, he sold his critically acclaimed restaurant under the Brooklyn Bridge to businessman Frank Ciolli, who transformed it into a national chain with 36 outlets across the country.
Grimaldi's now has outposts in Connecticut, New Jersey, South Carolina, Texas, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada and California.
► THE BOWLING ALLEY: Brooklyn Bowl, a Williamsburg nightspot with 16 high-tech alleys, an adjacent performance space, and soul food by Blue Ribbon Restaurants, opened its doors in 2009. The franchise expanded to London and Las Vegas in early 2014, and owner Peter Shapiro is apparently scouting other cities for new sites.
► THE BAR: When bar entrepreneur Deb Parker transformed an old-time beauty salon at 231 East 14th Street into a trendy watering hole for hipsters in 1995, she kept the chrome-domed hair dryers and the ornate chandeliers. Beauty Bar's trademark perk is a $10 manicure and drink deal, which can be snagged at locations in San Francisco, Las Vegas, Chicago, Denver and Dallas.
► THE HOTEL: Millionaire William Waldorf Astor and his cousin John Jacob Astor IV built the first iteration of the Waldorf Astoria in the 1890s on the site where the Empire State Building now stands. The hotel relocated in 1931 to its current home on Park Avenue, where it became the tallest and largest hotel in the world. Over the years, it served as the set of a major motion picture, a temporary home for Hollywood bombshell Marilyn Monroe, and a must-visit resort for every American president since Herbert Hoover.
The Waldorf Astoria New York joined the Hilton family of hotels in 1949 and later became the flagship for Hilton Worldwide's Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts brand, which today includes luxury hotels in Asia, Europe, South America and the Middle East. Hilton sold its flagship to a Chinese insurance firm this year.
