"With Very Heavy Hearts...!" Sunken Hundred On Smith Street Announces Closure

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Oh, Smith Street, what will become of you?  No one can deny it any longer.  It looks very sad these days with all its empty storefronts. For every new business that tries its luck on the commercial strip that traverses Boerum Hill and Carroll Gardens,  two businesses close. You can now add Sunken Hundred to those who came and will soon be gone.

Drunken Hundred, a Welsh Gastropub opened in 2016 at 276 Smith Street near Sackett Street. The space has been a bit cursed, since at least three other eateries have opened and closed at this location in the past eight years. Who remembers Bino?  How about Athur?  Or Mad Dog And Beans?

Owners Illtyd and Dom Barrett posted the following message on Drunken Hundred's Facebook page:

With very heavy hearts, we have to announce that on March 3 2018, we will be serving our fabberluss Welsh food and cocktails for the last time. We’ve worked so hard over the last two years to bring a taste of Wales to New York, and the incredible reception our little bar in Brooklyn received was as unexpected as it was overwhelming. Unfortunately, despite all the great reviews and fantastic feedback from our customers, we just don’t see a realistic way to make Sunken Hundred a profitable business. So, regrettably, we’ll be closing our doors and looking forward to new adventures.

We are immensely proud of Sunken Hundred and what we’ve achieved. None of it, of course, would have been possible without our fantastic staff, many of whom have been with us from the very beginning. Our love and heartfelt thanks go to Ashaun, Freddie, Tori, Charles, Sarah and Ashley; Tom, Terri, Clemmie, Hugh and Jeff; Jon, Annalyn, Kim and Serena. You bought into our seaweed-tinged vision and made Sunken Hundred a very special place, with great food, natty cocktails and superb service. We will miss working, arguing, laughing, crying and scoffing seaweed snacks with you so much. You are simply wonderful.

We’d also like to thank all the people who’ve supported us - New York Welsh, especially Ty, Marc, Rhodri, Sioned and Gwilym, Alayna, Pembrokeshire Beach Food Company, Penderyn Whisky, Craig, Stifyn Parri, Heyer Performance, Shana Sokol, Fran Evans, Hong-An and Aidan, Amanda Schuster, Tiny Rebel, the Welsh Government in USA (especially Efe), Chris, Matthew Rhys, Eryn Richards, Hywel and Chloe; our teacher and her students in our weekly Welsh Class: Katie Phillips, Richard, Leigh, Lauren and Kathryn; Mike and Rachel Barry; all our amazing locals, regulars and not-so-regulars and, of course, all our family and friends in the neighbourhood, back home and around the world.

We have two weeks of Welsh seaweed-munching left, and we would love you to join us to enjoy Cantre’r Gwaelod in the way us Welsh know best: scoffing, singing and maybe just a little bit of swilling. We want to celebrate, not be sad. And we want to celebrate with those closest to us.

Diolch o galon.
Illtyd and Dom

So stop on by and wish Illtyd and Dom well. Their time on Smith Street was way too short, don't you think?