Three Brooklyn restaurateurs, St. John Frizell (Fort Defiance), Ben Schneider (the Good Fork/Insa), and chef Sohui Kim (the Good Fork/Insa) plan to restore Gage & Tollner (372/374 Fulton St.) to its former grandeur and international renown after a 15-year hiatus.

The trio started an online campaign to raise funds and has since exceeded their minimum goal of $400,000. The group signed the lease with the building’s landlord, William Jemal once they met their goal.

According to a Brooklyn Eagle article dated Saturday, February 16, 1924, Charles M. Gage had started the business in 1878 at 303 Fulton Street. In 1880 Eugene Tollner entered the firm and by 1882 Gage & Tollner was officially born.

Gage & Tollner, a landmark in Downtown Brooklyn, sadly closed on Valentines Day in 2004.  The space has since then housed a T.G.I. Friday’s, Arby’s, and a costume jewelry shop. Frizell told the NY Post that the 100-seat main-floor dining room and upstairs spaces will be fully restored. The second floor will become the Sunken Harbor Club, a tropical cocktail bar, inspired by the late 19th century.

Customer service at the oyster house was always its number one consideration and everything was cooked to order. Gage & Tollner kept abreast of the latest delicacies and provided them with class to their customers. Some of the most prominent Brooklynites and important people dinned at this posh place.

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Frizell, Schneider, and Kim have a lot of work ahead reinstituting one of the most important and impressive Brooklyn restaurants. The building’s interior a designated landmark, however, has its original gas lamps and wall-length mirror. Using the best of what is left inside of Gage & Tollner, the new partners’ plan include serving traditional foods and items introduced by Edna Lewis, the restaurant’s chef back in the 1980s. However, the restaurant is said to become more of a steak house and chop house rather than a seafood palace like the original.

In August of 2015, OurBKSocial interviewed locals on their favorite Brooklyn restaurants. We asked long time Brooklynites to the name a favorite restaurant that no longer exists. Thomas Daley suggested Gage & Tollner. Daley became visibly perturbed at the thought of losing the opportunity to ever dine there again. He also mentioned he looks with disgust at the building’s appearance every time he passes by and prays someone will rescue it.

Daly, along with many others, who remember the impressiveness of Gage & Tollner will soon have their prayers answered. And Frizell, Schneider, Kim offer Brooklynites a chance to be part of history by investing. The company will pay investors 4% of revenues each quarter until 100% of their principal is returned plus 25% on top. For more information please click on the link here now.

Gage & Tollner is set to re-open this fall.