Coming soon to the East Village in the former Persimmon space (10th beween First and A). They have their beer and wine license and are aiming to open this Thursday. Chef Jeremy Spector is a fine home cook I happen to know because he's a friend of a friend and I have had his food at parties. But last night's pre-opening tasting shows he has some restaurant chops as well. We had nicely seasoned steak tartare with smashing house-made chips and brandade, utterly delicious broccoli rabe with garlic and roasted beets with chopped preserved lemon (a total winner of a dish), perfectly cooked duck breast--rosy and tender with a nice crisp edge ---and well-executed branzino with bronzed skin. The menu is divided into 'spreads'--the tartare and brandade, potted shrimp, a few others--small plates and three entrees which include chicken fried steak and roast chicken. There is also listed poutine with duck confit which to the dismay of some members of our party was unavailable.
It's small and cozy, but the high banquette I was seated on was quite comfortable. About thirty seats in all including a couple at the bar and a few at a counter along one wall.
Just don't get me started on the name.
The Brindle Room
Started by Daisy, Mar 08 2010 09:29 PM
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Posted 08 March 2010 - 09:29 PM
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Posted 08 March 2010 - 10:22 PM
I do like a well executed Bronzino.
It was not a new dish, as I recognised my tooth marks. Wilfrid
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Posted 08 March 2010 - 10:26 PM
I am a terrible speller. 
Will edit.
Will edit.
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Posted 08 March 2010 - 10:30 PM
It was a case of 'interference' me thinks. The 'bronzed skin' fried your mental spell-checker.
It was not a new dish, as I recognised my tooth marks. Wilfrid
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Posted 08 March 2010 - 11:58 PM
That's funny. Is it Daisy? Surely she would choose a name other than Mike Peed.
My mind sometimes does flips with: is it striped or stripped bass. (Ture. No, true. True, true.)
My mind sometimes does flips with: is it striped or stripped bass. (Ture. No, true. True, true.)
It was not a new dish, as I recognised my tooth marks. Wilfrid
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Posted 09 March 2010 - 12:15 AM
QUOTE(yvonne johnson @ Mar 8 2010, 06:58 PM) 
That's funny. Is it Daisy? Surely she would choose a name other than Mike Peed.
My mind sometimes does flips with: is it striped or stripped bass. (Ture. No, true. True, true.)
My mind sometimes does flips with: is it striped or stripped bass. (Ture. No, true. True, true.)
Only if served skinless and ungarnished (ungrenached?).
[M]ost of the pastas hover around $25. This ought to be enough to buy bucatini that is cooked on both ends. -- Pete Wells on Caravaggio ( * review)
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Posted 09 March 2010 - 08:22 PM
i've seen bronzini
Eat me, it says. Eat me and die. -- Jonathan Gold
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Everything is always OK in the end. If it's not OK, then it's not the end.
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Posted 09 March 2010 - 09:10 PM
I wish I could have a dollar for every person who's going to call it the Bridle Room.
I have a dream of a multiplicity of pastramis.
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"None of you get it." - Wilfrid (on the Beatles)
"I don't have time to point out all the ways in which you're wrong" - irnscrabblechf52
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Posted 09 March 2010 - 10:38 PM
I want a dollar for every person who asks if roast cat is on the menu.
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Posted 10 March 2010 - 01:01 AM
Who is designing all these retro menus?
Why live your life when you could curate it?
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Posted 10 March 2010 - 03:53 AM
$23 for CHICKEN FRIED STEAK?!?!?!?!? 
[M]ost of the pastas hover around $25. This ought to be enough to buy bucatini that is cooked on both ends. -- Pete Wells on Caravaggio ( * review)
Tonight, there was a dessert of coconut, rhubarb, and black olive. Obvious in its execution how innovation and experiment, when introduced for their own sake, are annoying. --irnscrabblechf52, May 9, 2013
notorious stickler -- NY Times
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Posted 10 March 2010 - 04:09 AM
Ouch. $16 at Mara's Homemade.
Mind you, forty bucks for a pound of cheddar these days. I am thinking of going back to canned pilchards as my main source of nourishment.
Mind you, forty bucks for a pound of cheddar these days. I am thinking of going back to canned pilchards as my main source of nourishment.
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Posted 15 March 2010 - 02:21 AM
QUOTE(Suzanne F @ Mar 9 2010, 11:53 PM)
$23 for CHICKEN FRIED STEAK?!?!?!?!?
Feeds two or three.
