Not sure how long June (on Dekalb) has been closed, but it looks like it will reopen tonight.
I think I heard about one robbery, but it sounds like there have been several.
June is one of those strange restaurant phenomenons — it always looks pretty empty. I’m starting to wonder if size matters. For some reason, bigger places seem to remain empty.
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It’s also a phenomenon where the food sucked. If you want people to patronize your restaurant, have a game plan. The first time i went was with three friends of mine for a drink. We were confined to ordering appetizers such as fried calamari and mozzarella sticks of the vein that you would find at a greasy burger bar (ie, Aramark foodservice quality). Suffice to say we didn’t stay for dinner.
They make it sound like the robbery and vandalism forced them to change the chef and menu.
I never ate there, but they made a pretty good dirty martini.
Maybe someone stole the chef and menu in protest. I ate there once and it was pretty bad.
I always like to go there because it is so empty. I always get great service.
Went once. Food sucked. Too many other good options within a couple of blocks. Won’t be back.
This is the only restaurant that I have ever walked out of the middle of the meal, without paying the check. The food and the service were both atrocious. Hopefully they will shut down and something tasty will open in that space.
The one and only time I ate there they only had one serving of an appetizer left, of which both my table and the table next to us ordered almost simultaneously. Instead of notifying both tables about the issue, they served both tables half portions. And in the end tried to charge us for the full thing! The rest of our experience was sub-par too. Needless to say, I have not been back. It’s such a great location, and the physical space is rather nice, so I hope that a new chef and menu (and hopefully improved service and an injection of common sense) will revitalize June! I’d be willing to give it another try.
do you remember when it was called sol’s? the owner bought the bldg when he first ventured into restaurantbar business. sol’s was actually kind of fun as a bar (used to be packed on the weekends) but it also never made it. he opened june after that, but reinvented it several times with new chefs and menus. never really worked. it shows that restaurant business is a hard field. we should really give more credit to restaurants who have it together.
i do try to support businesses in the neighborhood. i always eat locally if i am not stuck in the city.
I’ve been there a couple of times, never by choice. The food didn’t bother me so much, it wasn’t amazing but not complete crap. What did bother me was the complete lack of service and the super long wait for the food. It shouldn’t take 30min to make a burger, especially when the place is empty, which is always is.
This used to be the Clermont Lounge when we first moved to the neighborhood. It was old school.
They need to rethink the entire concept of this place. I’ve never been there before, but it seems to have one of the worst reps of any restaurant in the neighborhood. What’s the deal?
I’ve found June enjoyable as a bar when you don’t feel like being around a million people; it’s usually quiet and the drinks are good (and the bartenders are often amusing as hell)
Yep food was pretty ehh but the space has a lot of potential.
Wow! We also had positive experiences with the food but the service was dead, dead slow. Sometimes even non-existent.
had a great dinner there three years ago. had a so-so brunch there last year, with slooooow service. i like the space though.
Based on all these negative reviews, I’m guessing the burglar/vandal was a customer!
My experience seems to be like a lot of people’s…
I went there once with my husband and a friend. They made the 3 of us sit at a 2 top even tho there was plenty of empty 4 tops around. The food sucked. It looked like it had a nice bar… but I don’t really go out drinking much, so we never went back. There are so many other good choices near by, what’s the point.
Have to agree, the food was awful. I remember Sol being the same when it was there. Maybe it’s a bad luck corner?
That place has bad restaurant karma. Sol sucked. They never had anything that was on the menu, service was ridiculous, I put them permanently on my “Avoid at all cost” list and wasn’t sad when they closed. I did hear at one point that June is owned by the same folks as Sol? That is a rumor, though, not sure how true it is. Can anybody verify?
I did go in for drinks this summer to June with a girlfriend. NOBODY was there and the people working were definitely on the strange side. I felt like we walked in just as they did a bunch of blow and the manager was CREEPY. We sat outside to avoid the Munster family and I haven’t been back since.
As long as I think there might be a relationship to Sol I won’t eat there, just on principle.
I just toggled through all the comments and see that yes, June is a relative of Sol.
Anyway, there’s too many quality spots within blocks of June to settle for that.
Weird. I have actually had several wonderful dinners there! I agree, their appetizer selection wasn’t good. But many of their entrees were really good! Service was definitely slow, and it was sort of cold inside. But I have had at least three or four really good dinners there.
i always figured it was a drug front. how else to explain the open but empty nature of this crap-tacular spot?
Shadey–
I thought the same thing–how else could this horrible place hang on for so long?
Years ago we went to June and just as we got home–probably less than 10 minutes later–I realized I’d left my expensive sunglasses on the table (as usual, June had been pretty dead that night–maybe one other table.) I immediately called the restaurant and they said my glasses weren’t there. So June has bad service, bad food, and petty thievery to boot!
And I call bullshit on that sign. Did the thieves steal the chef and the menus? June, the clientele in Clinton Hill isn’t stupid. Tsk tsk.
I have been there a couple of times, and yes, we were always the only table there. But they make one mean mac n’ cheese. It has some kind of pesto mixed in and is divine. Its an appetizer on the menu and I ordered it once and sat at the bar.
All righty, then– I guess we’re having trouble agreeing on whether June sucks.
Maybe the outgoing chef is the one who DID the burglaries and vandalism?
i really liked june when they first opened. the menu and concept were completely different then (menu was divided into veggie, land and sea categories) and it was extremely reasonable (price-wise) for dinner. i’ve only been back once since they changed it and was not that impressed. love the space though so i wish something would work there.
I think the majority of the commments agree that the food at June is bad and overpriced, thus why it’s empty. Everyone goes once and that’s it. I always feel bad when I see people venture in unknowingly. It will never be good until the owner realizes that he doesn’t know how to run a business. Just because he owns the building doesn’t mean he should run the restaurant. This isn’t the first chef to walk out. I will never go to that spot until the owner rents it out to an actual restauranteer.
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