Welcome The Kati Roll Company

After Stage Restaurant was closed, for tampering with their gas lines, East Villagers were left wondering what new food establishment would open here, hoping that this time the food would be good!

Well the wait is over! Welcome beloved The Kati Roll Company:

The Kati Roll Company, with glarey sign.

Here is what it looks like inside:

Inside.

Look at that — there's room to enter now!

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#Gas

Ever since the explosion on Second Avenue (March 26), gas has become a trending topic!

Surviving building, last April.

The beloved Stage Restaurant, across the street from the explosion, is closed and being sued by the building owner for tampering with the gas lines:

Closed and being sued.

The beloved Nino's Pizza, on the corner of Avenue A and St. Mark's Place, is closed due to a gas leak:

We are close.

Even the recently-opened, beloved Black Seed Bagels, on First Avenue, was having gas problems last Sunday:

It gives a whole new meaning to the expression "Now you're cooking with gas!"… in the East Village Today!

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Stage Restaurant

I took this picture of Stage Restaurant, on Second Avenue, back in early January:

Stage Restaurant.

Stage suffers from poor feng shui, being so small and under a fire escape. These days, they suffer from being shut down by the Department of Buildings! It seems someone was tampering with the gas lines, the very situation that led to the explosion and fire across the street from them!

East Villagers love gas lines being worked on by licensed, professional plumbers only!

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