Three Owls Market: One Part Bodega, One Part Restaurant, All for the Neighborhood

Picture this: you’re standing on Washington Street in New York City’s Meatpacking District, facing the Whitney Museum of American Art. There’s brunch spot du jour Bubby’s on the corner, and high-end clothing store Intermix on the other side. Keep walking down Washington, past the Hanro and Christian Louboutin shops. Leave the tourists and designer boutiques on Gansevoort. One block south, on Horatio Street, lies a small piece of the city’s forgotten vestiges — a real neighborhood, with longtime residents who care about their homes enough to attend community board meetings and check up on businesses entering the area. This is Suzanne Lehrer Dumaine’s dream spot, she says, for her new market-restaurant concept, Three Owls Market, which opens today.   “It’s at the intersection of so many things,” she explains one week prior, while her team prepares for the grand opening. “We are right next to tourist central, with the High Line and the Whitney. But I’ve met many of the people who work around here, and they have nowhere to eat for lunch. Besides sit-down restaurants, there’s nothing really filling that need.” Three Owls Market founder Suzanne Lehrer Dumaine.  George Chinsee/WWD Lehrer Dumaine seeks to close the gap with Three Owls Market, which is

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