Flatbush Farm and Other Holiday Fare

We got an email yesterday from Chef Eric Lind of Flatbush Farm, announcing the restaurant’s new winter offerings and
its “delicious and affordable New Year’s Eve prix fixe menu.” Gridskipper apparently got the same note, and they were none too enthused:

“[The winter menu]’s got everything you might expect to appeal to the Park Slope gourmand. A mixture of comfort food (french dip sandwich, cast-iron roasted chicken) and things people don’t feel comfortable asking about (slow beans, bubble and squeak). Though rest assured, if you ask, the waitress will patiently recite in the first-person plural the ten-minute saga of how potatoes, cabbage, carrots and peas find themselves plucked from the upstate soil and become amalgamated into bubble and squeak.”

The place has gotten mixed reviews on Chowhound since it opened over the summer, but we’re still curious–anyone here tried it? The mention of an NYE menu also got us wondering: What are some good restos for celebrating the holidays? Do any of your families traditionally go out for holiday meals instead of eating at someone’s house?

The Discreet Farm of the Bourgeoisie [Gridskipper]
Photo by jscandinaro via Flickr