A Wes Anderson Versailles in Brooklyn
June 24, 2018 7:00 AM   Subscribe

The Grand Prospect Hall in Brooklyn is a Victorian Banquet Hall. It's an over-the-top banquet hall, full of things to look at and nowhere to rest your eyes.
posted by MovableBookLady (16 comments total) 18 users marked this as a favorite
 
Man, I miss Scouting NY! This is the sort of thing they would have loved.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 7:05 AM on June 24, 2018 [2 favorites]


The commercials really sell it.
posted by schadenfrau at 7:16 AM on June 24, 2018 [6 favorites]


Oh it looks like so much fun! I would love to dress up and go to a ball there. It is a weird mishmash of different styles in different rooms, from Victorian to I guess the 80s? I feel like every room you walked into would be surprising.
posted by stillnocturnal at 7:22 AM on June 24, 2018 [1 favorite]


What's a "nutual society"? Is "nutual" supposed to be "mutual" or is this something that was a thing 100 years ago and is no longer a thing and us 21st century people will not be able to understand?
posted by NoMich at 8:24 AM on June 24, 2018


> The commercials really sell it.

Yes! Mr. & Mrs. Halkias are familiar to anyone who watches local TV in NYC and I have great affection for them.


No joke, the second I saw the name "Grand Prospect Hall" instantly Mrs. Halkias' voice popped into my head ("we make your dreams come true!")
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 8:34 AM on June 24, 2018 [7 favorites]


I live a few blocks away from this place and to be completely honest don't know much about it, but the beer garden attached to it, which they gloss over in the piece, is super fun in the summer when it's open. The food is decent, the beer a bit better than that, and the ambience is wonderful and weird. Take a look at its yelp page for some pics other patrons have taken.

Hmm maybe I'll head over there today for a nice outdoor hefeweizen and some sausage...
posted by dubitable at 11:23 AM on June 24, 2018 [2 favorites]


I've often wondered who actually rents that place.
posted by praemunire at 11:28 AM on June 24, 2018


It's like being dipped in a vat of Beaux Arts...
posted by jim in austin at 11:34 AM on June 24, 2018 [1 favorite]


The perfect place to have been to a perfectly nice wedding at.
posted by rhizome at 12:12 PM on June 24, 2018


I've often wondered who actually rents that place.

There's a Balkan music festival there every year that is A FUCKING BLAST and the over-the-topness of the venue is kind of perfect.
posted by nebulawindphone at 1:37 PM on June 24, 2018 [4 favorites]


Holy crap I’d rent it out and blow several months savings on an absurd party because that friends, is the kind of thing you’ll remember at at the end of your life and be grateful you did it.
posted by nikaspark at 2:20 PM on June 24, 2018 [5 favorites]


Saw this when I got to work this morn and have to make sure i tell this story. I applied for and was more or less offered a job at the Hall back in...2002 or 2004 or somewhere in there.

I sat with the guy, the guy in the commercials, for an interview and my resume was good, so he had a lot of questions. I think he's greek -american, and I'm the same, so I think between my puffy resume and the ethnic connection he wanted to hire me. I was thinking I can't handle this job, too big for me, but I'll ride out the interview cuz what the hell.

After 18 minutes or so he wants to give me the tour, so here we go. He showed me every nook and cranny of the place, at the very least all the kitchens and all the FOH seating areas, all the bars...just fucking wild. I'm thinking "vrak this is too much for you you don't even know how to do a spreadsheet to track inventory" and he's showing me a wine room as big as a bus.

After a long ass tour I met his wife and we all chatted for a bit and I left, and he said he'd call. And he did, but left a message that neither offered me the job nor excluded me from the job, more of a when can you start if you want this job kind of vibe. And I knew it was beyond me at that point. They were both very nice and just as goofy and earnest as they seem in the ads.
posted by vrakatar at 6:38 PM on June 24, 2018 [5 favorites]


Holy crap I’d rent it out and blow several months savings on an absurd party

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Cloak and domino optional? Monocles or lorgnettes?
posted by The Underpants Monster at 8:29 PM on June 24, 2018


I get the feeling it would be like dining on folding tables and plastic stacking chairs at the Parthenon. Lots of history, but it's separate, and going on way above your head.
posted by halfbuckaroo at 3:22 AM on June 25, 2018


I get the feeling it would be like dining on folding tables and plastic stacking chairs at the Parthenon.

The photos seem to be a step or two up from folding chairs....
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 11:58 AM on June 25, 2018


I've lived a few blocks from Grand Prospect for 20 years and I've still never been inside. I always want to go to Golden Festival and I always manage to miss it. Can we have a meetup at the festival next time?
posted by moonmilk at 2:41 PM on June 25, 2018 [1 favorite]


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