Brooklyn Slate Company Opens Red Hook Shop

Looking to start spring with a clean slate?

Brooklyn Slate Company, a local producer of cheese boards and coasters, has opened its first shop at 305 Van Brunt Street in Red Hook. 

Founded in 2009 by Brooklyn graphic designer Sean Tice and Parsons graduate student Kristy Hadeka, the natural product line sprang from a fortuitous trip to Hadeka's family slate quarry upstate. Since then, the rustic collection has been picked up by national chains from Whole Foods to Williams-Sonoma.

While the pair will continue to sell at local stores, including By Brooklyn, A Cook's Companion, Sahadi's, Stinky Bklyn, and Union Market, the company will now have its own brick and mortar location closer to the waterfront.

"Our shop is more of a showroom with a few other houseware items that we think go along well with our boards," explained Tice. 

To celebrate, owners will be handing out complimentary grilled cheeses at the shop on Saturday, April 13 from noon to 4 p.m.

The sandwiches were inspired by the fact that the opening party serendipitously coincides with National Grilled Cheese Day.

"We'll be making the grilled cheeses ourselves—we'll have a few different domestic cheeses, bread from Roberta's, and homemade onion jam," said Tice.

Sounds delicious to us.