Congratulations and Goodbye, Roberta's!

If you’re going to make a great restaurant completely unavailable to eat at ever again, this is how you do it: with Times restaurant critic Sam Sifton blowing off the roof. Goodbye, Roberta’s! Now begins the 5 p.m. dinner line-up and the 10:45 a.m. brunch line. You’re worth it though! You deserve it! ❤ you! This also marks the ultimate in acceptance of extraordinary restaurants in fairly terrible places. After M. Wells made Long Island City a place to eat, and Roberta’s made Bushwick a viable dining expedition, I am afraid to contemplate what is next. We can only pray for Washington Heights over Gravesend.