Neocon maudit Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 St John comes to Brooklyn. I don't suppose any of you have been? Quote A curated handful of St. JOHN signature dishes – baked quail eggs with trotter, ox cheek pie, and scoops of the cult Dr. Henderson ice cream – will be available á la carte or all together from March 7–22 for dinner. I wish there were more details. I don't know what's going on in Brooklyn these days, but this seems an odd location for an Ace Hotel. Is this downtown? Boerum Hill? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
joethefoodie Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 Friends of mine went to the one-night thing they did at Long Island Bar last week. They liked it fine, but with Phil Ward mixing Martinis, who knows what state their minds were in. I'm of the general opinion that restaurants trying to function and serve food as they do at their home restaurants, are never as good. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Steve R. Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 Okay, so as you know, I'm an idiot when it comes to cocktails. But I generally know names/reputation. Like, I know who Julie R is & have been to many of the cocktail bars in NYC. And, since we live 2 blocks away, we're pretty much regulars at LI Bar, where we eat, drink wine and beer & watch the cocktails go by - with the exception of the frozen Pina Coladas that I drink in warm weather. This probably should be in the "Learn Something New Every Day" thread (or "Dingbat.."), but I never realized that Phil was THAT Phil. I just did some google searching. Boy, does he lay low. By the way, the chef at LI Bar, Kevin, was chef at Bufalina & a friend of Dilley's. So, the food's good too. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Steve R. Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 10 hours ago, Neocon maudit said: I don't know what's going on in Brooklyn these days, but this seems an odd location for an Ace Hotel. Is this downtown? Boerum Hill? Walkable in 5 minutes to the Barclay Center, there's now a cluster of hotels within blocks. This section of Atlantic Ave will, no doubt, become more of a credible restaurant row over the next several years &, with Downtown Bklyn's upscale "development" again underway & also only blocks away, this location is gold. Not that this immediate area has been ungentrified and undiscovered by restaurant owners: its the original location of Brooklyn Fare & had Krescendo (Eliz. Faulkner's pizza place) years ago, with Rucola & Mile End still around. And Gage & Tollner of course. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 Although Mile End a shadow of its former self. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 Speaking of Mile End's former self, let's also mention Grand Army Bar. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Steve R. Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 Truthfully, I wasn't impressed with its former self either. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 I was a huge fan myself. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 BTW, I'd call it Boerum Hill. Although I'll bet THEY call it Downtown. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AaronS Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 I think the food at st john is especially poorly suited to replication elsewhere. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 I remember going to a Rene Redzepi pop-up in a New York restaurant once and there was some kind of crisis because some of the ingredients he was flying in from Denmark got held up at customs, so he had to go out to find local replacements. And I thought: wait, isn't the whole point of Rene Redzepi that you don't ship ingredients around the globe but only use what's local? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wilfrid Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 How many of us went to Fergus’s pop-up at Savoy, many years ago? I just hadn’t heard about this. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Seth Gordon Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 18 hours ago, Neocon maudit said: St John comes to Brooklyn. I don't suppose any of you have been? I wish there were more details. I don't know what's going on in Brooklyn these days, but this seems an odd location for an Ace Hotel. Is this downtown? Boerum Hill? We only heard about it this morning. It’s like they didn’t advertise or hype it at all - I can’t recall seeing anything in any of the usual rags about it. Anyway, we’re going next Sunday. I imagine the dishes travel well enough. Though I hope there’s more adventurous on the menu than quail eggs and ox cheeks. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 3 hours ago, Wilfrid said: How many of us went to Fergus’s pop-up at Savoy, many years ago? I just hadn’t heard about this. MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 2 hours ago, Seth Gordon said: We only heard about it this morning. It’s like they didn’t advertise or hype it at all - I can’t recall seeing anything in any of the usual rags about it. Anyway, we’re going next Sunday. I imagine the dishes travel well enough. Though I hope there’s more adventurous on the menu than quail eggs and ox cheeks. I knew about it like a week ago. It must have been in Eater or on Grub Street. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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