Miriam: Middle Eastern Fusion in Park Slope
Apparently there is such a thing as contemporary israeli cuisine and one of the foremost (if not the only) practitioners of the genre is located on Brooklyn’s latest restaurant row, Fifth Avenue in Park Slope. New York Magazine gave the restaurant, named Miriam, a go last week and liked what it saw (or ate, that…
Apparently there is such a thing as contemporary israeli cuisine and one of the foremost (if not the only) practitioners of the genre is located on Brooklyn’s latest restaurant row, Fifth Avenue in Park Slope. New York Magazine gave the restaurant, named Miriam, a go last week and liked what it saw (or ate, that is). It sounds to us like it’s worth a visit:
Despite its ambitious food, Miriam clearly aspires to be an unpretentious neighborhood spot. The service is friendly and unfrazzled, and thanks to what must be the most efficient busboy-runners in all of Brooklyn, astonishingly quick. But you’re still welcome to linger—over a silky halvah mousse, with pistachio halvah crumbled on top, or a bottle of Israeli wine, which Miriam pointedly lists under the South Europe designation, alongside affordably priced selections from France, Spain, and Italy. With that sort of globally informed, culinarily sophisticated outlook—proud of its heritage but not enslaved by it—Miriam isn’t only elevating Israeli cuisine. It’s reinventing it.
Who’s been?
Helluva Halvah [NY Magazine]
“and?” will only be satisfied when the place is burned to the ground and everyone associated with it is dead.
and?,
Do you recognize Miriam’s right to exist? Would you be satisfied if Miriam withdrew to its pre-1967 borders?
Brunch was not so good. And I can second the poster above about the lack of spic and span in the place (although few restaurants can really bear much scrutiny in this regard).
Why does this restaurant insist on refered to Isreali food/wine as European.
Isreal is not in Europe it is in the Middle East.
yeah, if i ever catch that beret/pretentious wine pouring grip dude on the boulevard, there’s going to be a confrontation.
patronizing this place would be akin hitting up a south african themed restaurant in like 1985. so halvah is Israeli now? whoa. i guess boosting the land ain’t enough. even dessert items aren’t safe from plunder. “hide the sahlab little ahmed, they’ve come for that too!”
no papers necessary but apparently you might want to wear an idiotic looking beret lol…
i’m palestinian. just curious if i’ll need to bring id papers with me to gain entry.
are palestinians allowed inside without appropriate papers?
this is a really good spot.