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	<title>Observer &#187; Hipster Runoff: Taavo Somer to Williamsburg</title>
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		<title>Hipster Runoff: Taavo Somer to Williamsburg</title>

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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 17:16:24 -0400</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/112706rticleransom.jpg?w=224&h=300" />Taavo Somer, proprietor of Freeman's and The Rusty Knot, will haul his unique aesthetic sensibilities across the river with a new restaurant on the Williamsburg waterfront, <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/chic_restaurant_housing_plan_moves_OAus8SlwmAdnimJT8f4T5J?CMP=OTC-rss&amp;FEEDNAME=" target="_blank"><em>Courier-Life</em></a> reports.</p>
<p>The plans to bring a restaurant to the neighborhood have been in the works for a while, but a recent City Council vote to rezone the proposed space on Wyeth Avenue means the path is now clear. The rezoning also O.K.'s a new apartment complex on the site, aimed at young couples with children.</p>
<p><a href="http://ny.eater.com/archives/2011/03/taavo_somers_hippie_williamsburg_restaurant.php" target="_blank">Eater</a> has heard that the Somer restaurant's will have a "hippie" theme.</p>
<blockquote><p>Says one tipster, "So kind of like how Freemans was the pioneer of hipster, and The Knot was nautical, this is supposed to be some kind of hippie place."</p>
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<p>Yeah, whatever happened to that nautical fad anyway? Here's a 2006 <a href="/node/36317" target="_blank">Spencer Morgan profile</a>.</p>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/112706rticleransom.jpg?w=224&h=300" />Taavo Somer, proprietor of Freeman's and The Rusty Knot, will haul his unique aesthetic sensibilities across the river with a new restaurant on the Williamsburg waterfront, <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/chic_restaurant_housing_plan_moves_OAus8SlwmAdnimJT8f4T5J?CMP=OTC-rss&amp;FEEDNAME=" target="_blank"><em>Courier-Life</em></a> reports.</p>
<p>The plans to bring a restaurant to the neighborhood have been in the works for a while, but a recent City Council vote to rezone the proposed space on Wyeth Avenue means the path is now clear. The rezoning also O.K.'s a new apartment complex on the site, aimed at young couples with children.</p>
<p><a href="http://ny.eater.com/archives/2011/03/taavo_somers_hippie_williamsburg_restaurant.php" target="_blank">Eater</a> has heard that the Somer restaurant's will have a "hippie" theme.</p>
<blockquote><p>Says one tipster, "So kind of like how Freemans was the pioneer of hipster, and The Knot was nautical, this is supposed to be some kind of hippie place."</p>
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<p>Yeah, whatever happened to that nautical fad anyway? Here's a 2006 <a href="/node/36317" target="_blank">Spencer Morgan profile</a>.</p>
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