From Flatbush to 12th Street, Ellis Aponte, Jr. on Chowhound says there are 58 restaurants on Fifth Avenue. Most of them have opened since 2000.

To the best of my knowledge only 16 of the 58 have been open since the 1990s (four of these are pizzerias).

In five and a half years Slopers have gone from being chow-deprived to being aswim in chow. With respect to the notion "too much is never enough" the question now is, what else do we need? What cuisines are poorly represented in the Slope or missing from the area altogether?

It’s also rather interesting how few failures 5th Ave. has seen recently. Of the places that have opened since the Al di la revolution, I can only think of Vaux, Mexican Sandwich Shop, Bibi’s, Surreal Caf