Wednesday Food & Drink Round Up
Photo by the real janelle Fette Sau 354 Metropolitan Ave., nr. Havemeyer St., Williamsburg, 718-963-3404. “An avid backyard barbecuer, Joe eschews regional styles, finding inspiration in local ingredients like Italian fennel sausage from a nearby butcher, and his own proprietary panela-and-espresso-based spice rub. Head chef Matt Lang, late of Pearl Oyster Bar, swaps surf for…
Photo by the real janelle
Fette Sau
354 Metropolitan Ave., nr. Havemeyer St., Williamsburg, 718-963-3404.
“An avid backyard barbecuer, Joe eschews regional styles, finding inspiration in local ingredients like Italian fennel sausage from a nearby butcher, and his own proprietary panela-and-espresso-based spice rub. Head chef Matt Lang, late of Pearl Oyster Bar, swaps surf for turf with a rotating menu of pork and beef ribs and shoulders, pigs’ tails, flank steak, leg of lamb, pork belly, and pastrami, all sold by weight and served on butcher paper, sauce on the side.” [NY Mag]
Jack the Horse Tavern
66 Hicks St. (corner of Hicks & Cranberry), Brooklyn Heights, 718-852-5084
“A mixed green salad with manchego cheese and poached pears ($7) was simultaneously crisp and luscious. The seaweed salad and lemon confit that accompanied an appetizer of fried oysters ($9) neutralized the batter’s saltiness for a satisfying finish. As for main courses, the herbed free-range chicken breast ($16) was juicy and tender (though the side of baby leeks could have been a bit less baby) and a perfectly roasted pork chop with coarse ground mustard sauce ($18) came with grilled apples and a celery root puree so light and airy that it reminded me of whipped cream.” [NY Press]
You should become a therapist Cara. You are so insightful. Thanks.
I don’t know Cara, I appreciated that someone is letting it known that they didn’t care about reviews and other peoples opnions. I wouldn’t want to go to a place where management is rude. I also love how you tell someone to get over them self in a post. that is classic grade school savvy!
Waaaah! Saw your rant over at Eater, too. Word for word. What, you going to post it to Citysearch next? Oh wait, you already did. Get over it and get over yourself already.
“here strikes me as pretty much in line with the behavior you’re attempting to denounce – highly unprofessional”
I am just a customer, not a professional……
Dude, I was at Fatte Sau the other night and service and food was downright bad. the pork was all fat and the guy behind the counter had the worst hipster attitude. They better fix it fast if they want people to come back.
huffy,
they’ve only been open a few days, and i’m sure opening and trying to work out the (inevitable) kinks has everyone a little stressed out. clearly there’s more demand for this place than they could have anticipated, especially hot on the heels of the opening. i’m not excusing his behavior, but your ranting at length about it here strikes me as pretty much in line with the behavior you’re attempting to denounce – highly unprofessional.
i had a less-than-ideal experience at shake shack last summer, where after waiting on line to order for 45 minutes (no surprise there), we were informed there would be about a 35 minute wait for food. nobody bothered to say anything, and some people were rather upset by it. now, that situation has been remedied, there’s a sign that lets you know about how long the wait is from the point at which you are standing. along those lines, i’m sure after a few more days in business the folks at fette sau will be able to gauge at what point they need to start alerting guests that the food is running low.
also, after things settle down a bit and there’s not such a rush on the place, i’m sure the potential for conflict between exhausted, stressed-out managers and patient, hungry customers will diminish.
hey, its huffy from chowhound, i went to fette sau opening night and had a good experiace, but i went tonight and had an horrible experince with their manager Andy, i want to let you know about this, so you can let other people know. its time that places in NYC relize that people that live in NYC want to :
Forget what I wrote before about Fette Sau, tonight I had a horrible experience at Fettte Sau, and I never want anyone else on this board to experience what I went though.
My friend and I got in line for food at 9pm, it was a long line, but we were ready to wait. An half an hour later or so after waiting we got close enough to the serving area and noticed there was no food, so I asked the person behind the counter if there was any food left, their response was “No dude ha-ha, its all gone.” After waiting in line for over 30 minutes this isn’t the correct response, I told the the server if the are running out of food then they need to let the people in line know they are running out either some one could let the line know or erase the items off the chalkboard. Before I was able to let my opinions be known a guy was in my face letting me know my opionions are not appreciated and cursing at me. I was shocked by this; I was let them know I was just giving constructing criticism and not being an ass, but rather, than me being the ass, it was them being too aggressive toward the customer. I found out that the person in my face was Andy, the manager, after I said I was just a concerned customer and my name was James. Andy was more concerned with being aggressive in my face letting me know they have been open since Wednesday and they were working out the kinks, rather than listen me a person who has been around the restaurant industry he would rather be rude, curse at me, defensive and obnoxious After I told him I was just give constructive criticism, and that he was a ass, he decided to be nice to me, This isn’t how the customer/restaurant industry works. While being on the defense, I told him I was just tying to tell him what wasn’t working and what was, and I wanted to share these observations because my family has exerperanced this running restaurants, he told me he didn’t care about reviews and my opnions. Now take this how you want, but this means to me he DOESN’T CARE ABOUT YOU AND YOUR WANTS. After all this, my friend and I did not order any food because they had run out so we finished out beers outside, meanwhile Andy left the place and tried to give me a “hey buddy” nod. Sorry Andy this isn’t how it works, you can’t be an ass to someone and try to solve it with a nod.
Jack The Horse Tavern: Even though the reviewer would have preferred a “basic burger” than the fancy “sokota” burger offered, GET THE FANCY BURGER. It’s amazing.