Empire Building

UPDATED: Absinthe Offshoot Gets a Name

The Absinthe folks appear to have chosen a name for their casual cousin in the Citizen Cake space: Boxing Room. Update: Grub Street has learned via the team’s publicist, Brigid Finley, that the name derives from the building’s history. “In the late 1800s the building housed a shirt factory and the restaurant space was the room where shirts were boxed before shipping, hence the name.”

UPDATED: Absinthe Offshoot Gets a Name