Diamond Reef: A Trip to the Tropics from the Geniuses behind Attaboy
Can a place be a destination bar and a neighborhood spot? That’s what Diamond Reef aims to be, according to Dan Greenbaum, managing partner. “I think it can be both,” he told me as I sipped a rum concoction he had prepared. “I think to excel here, we need to be a neighborhood bar. Those are the people who are gonna come out on cold winter nights.”
Opened on March 1st, the buzzed-about new spot on the Crown Heights/Bed-Stuy border by the team behind Attaboy has already gained a following among cocktail geeks. (As I sat at the bar, I overheard another writer telling one of the bartenders she wrote a book about Brooklyn cocktail bars, and several people stopped by to say hello to Greenbaum, who was on Attaboy’s opening team and trained under Sasha Petraske.)