Streetlevel: New Gastropub for South Slope
Thistle Hill Tavern just opened on 7th Avenue and 15th Street and it’s already getting a steady stream of customers. Sarah DiGregorio for Fork in the Road writes, “Thistle Hill is a collaboration between David Massoni (formerly of ‘inoteca), John Bush (Niagara Bar), chef Rebecca Weitzman (also formerly of ‘inoteca) and Mike ‘Fat Mike’ Burkett…
Thistle Hill Tavern just opened on 7th Avenue and 15th Street and it’s already getting a steady stream of customers. Sarah DiGregorio for Fork in the Road writes, “Thistle Hill is a collaboration between David Massoni (formerly of ‘inoteca), John Bush (Niagara Bar), chef Rebecca Weitzman (also formerly of ‘inoteca) and Mike ‘Fat Mike’ Burkett of NOFX, the punk band from California. It’s a very comfortable, congenial place, and is surprisingly polished–from service to food–for a place that’s only been open for a few days. ”
Grub Street says that the burger “is made from house-ground grass-fed beef,” and the menu also includes “mussels with hot cherry peppers in Brooklyn Brewery Pennant Ale, milk-braised pork belly with fava beans and pickled ramps, and the aptly named ‘Breakfast,’ a morning-food medley of housemade sausage, pancake, egg, and peppered maple syrup. ” Has anybody checked this place out yet? GMAP
Ha! Best use of ‘atherosclerotic’ ever.
I think I’ll pimp that from you next time I make my case against eating steak. 🙂
amazing to me how the yuppie health craze spawns the gastropub trend. pork bellies, bacon, burgers, sausage, if it doesn’t kill you they probably don’t sell it. its like the anti yuppie for yuppies. generation whatever likes to be ironic i guess.
“oh but we massaged it and sang songs to it before clogging your arteries”
anyone want to open an environmentally friendly cigarette club?
P.S. They also have an interesting list of specialty cocktails that we didn’t get around to trying, but certainly would on a return visit.
To actually answer Mr. B’s question, yes, wife, baby and I went there for dinner at the 5 p.m. opening for Mother’s Day. The atmosphere and the service were excellent, though given the number of families with small kids there (at least four besides us while we were there), they would do well to invest in additional high chairs (we snagged what appeared to be the only one).
The food and drink were uneven, but that may be due to working the kinks out. I don’t think it’s fair to judge until a place has been open a few months. Specifically, the white Gavi was terrific, but the two reds we tried were both too sharp, even with the strong cheeses we got. (The cheeseplate was very nice, I would add.) My wife’s leg of lamb was terrific, but my steak was too fatty — there’s a line between well-marbled and atherosclerotic, and the steak was on the wrong side. The baby liked the potato cake that came with my steak.
In sum, I think we’ll try it again in the summer. I’d like for the place to succeed.
I think ‘gastro’ means stomach, so a stomach pub is what we’re dealing with here. It has always reminded me of distended tummies with gases, or abdominal gases and beer. Not pleasant.
Crap Dipster… I hope there’s no zombies. We already have that problem with the renovated park in Bklyn Heights.
WTF did they get that name from?
Sounds so……. gay! (sorry Rob, etc)
the term “gastropub” sounds odd to me.
Sounds like some gastrointestinal disorder cuased by quaffing too much Old Speckled Hen.
Wasn’t this the old Olive and Vine? When I live in PS that was probably one of my favorite places to get a cheap meal.