NY Magazine's Top 5 Brooklyn Restaurants
Applewood Butter-poached Maine lobster, followed by braised Vermont suckling pig with sautéed leeks, and a chocolate-soufflé cake for dessert. Does this sound like your average Brooklyn menu? Well, it isn’t. 360 Provided you can find it (it’s tucked next to an old funeral parlor in Red Hook), this is a French bistro even the snottiest…
Applewood
Butter-poached Maine lobster, followed by braised Vermont suckling pig with sautéed leeks, and a chocolate-soufflé cake for dessert. Does this sound like your average Brooklyn menu? Well, it isn’t.
360
Provided you can find it (it’s tucked next to an old funeral parlor in Red Hook), this is a French bistro even the snottiest Manhattan food snob can love. The steak tartare is the best in Red Hook, or anywhere else.
iCi
The proprietor of this restaurant in Fort Greene has worked at Balthazar and Bouley. But you won’t find organic grits like this at either place, or crunchy cauliflower, or bottles of excellent biodynamic wine for $25 or less.
Al Di LÃ
A mom-and-pop shop for the discerning diner. Do what the locals do and order the malfatti (Swiss-chard-and-ricotta gnocchi), casonziei (red-beet ravioli), or the braised rabbit with black olives and polenta.
Franny’s
Andrew Feinberg and Francine Stephens’s new pizza mecca, in a borough famous for pizza meccas. This being a new Brooklyn pizza mecca, of course, everything is organic.
5 Best Brooklyn Restaurants [NY Magazine]
Noodle Pudding should be right up there. Especially given the prices.
although it’s not in our part of town- fornino’s on bedford in williamsburg has really amazing pizza- should atleast be tried to compare, on the expensive side though,
Saul is amazingly delicious. Wonderful service and a comfy room
Applewood sucks. How it got into the top five is beyond me. I can only assume that hungry man dinners are in the top ten.
love ICI – had really great speatzle there recently – and i’m german and it’s hard to get it right. they did. I’m wondering though, why vini e oli/locanda didn’t get the nod. it’s quite good, with a great house wine, charismatic owner – only bummer not open during the day. and i would be remiss if i did not include DIner – they rock. best ambiente, great specials, only good music playing in town. hot owners with beautiful wives and cute kids…
what about Saul? I was thinking of going there for valentine’s day, but we’ve never been….
I love Convivium and I agree, Applewood is overrated. They want to do the kind of simple, market driven American fair that Union Square does to perfection, but they really fall short. I’d rather go to RoseWater.
360 is amazing and the prix fix can’t be beat. And I do enjoy Franny’s though I find the menu limited. I’d say that Amorina and Franny’s are neck n neck, in all honesty. And neither beats Totonno’s in my book.
I think franny’s is vastly OVER-RATED. Where is the Convivum Osteria on this list? I’ve eaten at most of the restaurnats in Park Slope (and all that that are listed on this list) and I think the Convivum Osteria has by far better food than any of these listed!
Everytime I go to Franny’s I order the meat lovers and everytime I end up with the wilted escarole, goat cheese and cilantro foam.
What gives?