Less Than a Year After Opening, Rose Marie is Packing It Up

The East Williamsburg restaurant abruptly announces its last service is just a few weeks away

If a recent Instagram post is to be trusted, there are only a few more weeks to swig cocktails and load up on proper patty melts and/or menu-stealing semolina strawberry shortcakes from Rose Marie. Not even a year since it opened on Lorimer in East Williamsburg, the restaurant has announced it will be closing in just a few weeks.

“This past year has been a rollercoaster of high highs and low lows, and we’re incredibly grateful for every part of it. Thank you to everyone who worked alongside us, and to all of you who stopped in for a martini, a patty melt, and time spent around our tables,” the Rose Marie team wrote in their big, sad reveal on Tuesday, May 26. The “high highs,” we imagine, are likely in reference to the restaurant’s nearly instant embrace by the neighborhood and the nod it received from the Michelin Guide mere months after opening. We can’t speak for the other end of it, but it’s not like the cost of doing business in the borough is getting any cheaper. Salute to them for keeping it going as long as they did.

And while we hate to see them go, there are a few silver linings here. Namely, that the team appears to be plotting something of a sequel in the space (“Stay tuned to see what we have in store at 524 Lorimer”) and Yellow Rose, the Tex-Mex bistro’s big sister in the East Village, will remain in operation (as far as we know). But on this side of the river, the Rose Marie team will be winding things down and scaling back hours ahead of their last service on Saturday, June 13.

Until then, it will be open from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Thursdays, 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, with brunch service from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the weekends. Pull up and grab one last melt before they pack it all up.