Read our Feature in the New York Post

April 9, 2024

By Hannah Frishberg

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Past rows of steel- and carbon-frame bikes, behind a floor-to-ceiling curtain, to the left of the mechanic’s room, this Prospect Lefferts Gardens institution is freshly reopened.

The second incarnation of Jermaine, Paul and Johann Burrowes’ restaurant, MangoSeed, started serving up Caribbean fare this February following intense community pressure, the brothers say.

The brothers and professional cyclers originally opened MangoSeed in 2008, at a time when the neighborhood featured almost exclusively takeout joints, making the liquor license-equipped sit-down eatery quite the anomaly. The restaurant quickly became a local institution, beloved both for being a community gathering place and for chef Paul Burrowes’ menu of culinary creations, including oxtail pizza and jerk fish tacos.

Weathering the pandemic wore out the brothers on the food business and, after 17 years, they shuttered the eatery in July 2022, refocusing their energies on their Burrowes Brothers Bikes shop, which they opened the same year in an adjacent Flatbush Avenue storefront.....