Williamsburg’s iconic Kellogg’s Diner is up for sale for $2.5 million

BY OLIVIA BENSIMON

Kellogg’s Diner, a historic restaurant at Metropolitan and Union avenues in Williamsburg, is for sale after ling for bankruptcy protection.

e diner, which rst opened in 1928 and was known for its 24/7 service, was listed on a commercial real estate website last month with an asking price of $2.5 million. New owners would take over the 30-year lease starting June 1 along with a liquor license.

Eater rst reported the listing. Victor Moneypenny, a broker with the Staten Island–based MYC & Associates real estate agency in charge of the sale, did not respond to a request for comment by press time.

For years the diner had been struggling nancially, according to court records. Irene Siderakis was the diner’s most recent owner. She took over from her husband, Chris Siderakis, following his unexpected death in 2018, then led for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in August 2021. By then the restaurant owed more than $750,000 in unpaid expenses, including $285,000 in rent and utilities, such as real estate taxes, gas and electric services, and legal fees stemming from a 2019 federal wage theft lawsuit.

Chris Siderakis originally purchased the diner in 2013 from brothers Anthony, Frank and Fotis Fiotodimitrakis, who had been running it since the 1970s, according to the website Bedford + Bowery.

Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to Chapter 7. e diner’s day-to-day operations are now overseen by a bankruptcy trustee. at will continue until it is sold.

Following her husband’s death, Siderakis tried to maintain the diner’s legacy and business. But the additional burden of the pandemic dealt another blow. Amid nancial problems, she tried to rescue the diner by hosting comedy shows and poetry readings and selling breakfast staples online, according to Eater. e listing reports $3.5 million in gross annual revenue, and an employee at the diner told Crain’s that its sales had stabilized recently.

In January the case was converted from

Rowdy customers and late-night ghts on weekends at the diner have resulted in Kellogg’s scaling back its 24-hour service on Fridays and Saturdays, said Yosuel Rosado, the diner’s manager who has worked there for four years and was once the overnight manager. “ ree, four in the morning, people are a little drunk and they want to have st ghts— and like, no, we can’t have that,” Rosado said. He added ghts had been happening consistently every weekend for a few months, and he wanted to keep the sta safe.

“We want to go back to 24 hours on the weekends,” he said. “You still need food when you go out until 3 a.m.” ■