A quick progress update on the incoming outpost of the Chelsea Vietnamese restaurant Co Ba, coming to W 53rd St (previously). Over the past week or so, they’ve pulled down the old tenant’s awning and lights, leaving a very different, bare storefront:
The place used to be Kiran Indian Cuisine, who disappeared back in October last year. For a long time, they had their colorful lights hanging from the awnings, which we were sort of hoping might make it through the transition, but I guess not…
Before:
It’s been a few months since we first heard Co Ba was planning on taking the spot over, and this is the first progress we’ve seen since the papers went up on the windows. Hopefully not long to go now before the big reveal.