Hog Pit Gets a Stay of Execution
Sort of. The Hog Pit on 9th Avenue did, in fact, shutter for good last week, and the relocated Hog Pit, across the street from Hill Country of all places, still sucks, but at least the venerated shithole will not become a Steve Madden shoe store. (Maybe the vitriol the shoe chain engenders every time it announces a new store has something to do with this.) There’s still hope. Sure the owners of the Pit said they were they done with neighborhood anyway (which probably just means that Hogs and Heifers was out shitholing them), but maybe someone can keep meat alive on the corner. Our money is on the guys from Fatty Crab, who took top honors at Cochon555 in NYC this weekend with a heritage Berkshire garnished with a can of Hog-Pit-favorite Pabst in its mouth (pics to come). Could the pulled pork masterpiece be a subtle hint that the Crab has designs on the Hog Pit space? A secret message of sorts? If the sticker below, which is actually affixed to the lips of the Hog Pit logo on 9th Avenue, counts for anything there is hope yet.
