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The two Joshes of Stone Park Cafe to open Chinese restaurant

By Ben Muessig
The Brooklyn Paper
The Brooklyn Papers / Greg Mango
Double fantasy: Stone Park Cafe duo Josh Grinker (right) and Josh Foster are now opening a high-quality Chinese restaurant.

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The creative team behind Park Slope’s acclaimed Stone Park Café is planning an affordable Chinese restaurant just blocks away the much-loved New American eatery.

Stone Park co-owner and chef Josh Grinker (right) told The Brooklyn Paper that the new restaurant will offer Chinese food that retains the cuisine’s popular low cost, but raises its quality.

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“It’s a traditional Chinese restaurant — but with good food,” said Grinker, who will open the new eatery with co-owner Josh Foster. “There’s nothing like that in the neighborhood.”

The pair hopes to take over the spacious Fifth Avenue storefront between Carroll Street and Garfield Place that once housed Tempo.

“It’s not going to be a fancy restaurant like some of the Manhattan places have tried,” he said. “We’ll cut out the stuff that Westerners just don’t go for … but the food will be traditional in the techniques, the ingredients and the recipes.”

It’s not the first time Grinker has taken the cornstarch and MSG out of Chinese cuisine. A few years back, he worked at the well-regarded Vermont Chinese restaurant A Single Pebble.

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