Southern Restaurants
our suggestions
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Char No. 4
196 Smith Street, Brooklyn, NYChar No. 4 is essentially our New York City dream house – a warm, inviting space with a wall of bourbon and a smoker. This is Southern influenced food in New York City, and it’s damn good.
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Pies ‘n’ Thighs
166 S. 4th St., Brooklyn, NYThe new Pies ‘n’ Thighs has opened its doors, and Williamsburg’s most influential hipsters are rejoicing. At least that seemed to be the case when we recently visited with Forking Tasty‘s Jason Anello. As a matter of fact, I’m pretty sure we happened to be eating there while the hipster council of elders was holding [...]
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The Commodore
366 Metropolitian Ave, Brooklyn, NYI made a pact with my arteries the other day. Basically, we agreed that I would eat nothing but steel cut oats and raw carrots for the next six months to atone for what I did to them at The Commodore last week. In return, they agreed to let me off the hook for putting [...]
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Lowcountry
142 W. 10th St., West Village, NYWe don’t know much about the “low country”, other than that the term refers to a specific area of coastal South Carolina and Georgia, and that they know how to do some serious cooking down there. Also that any proper gentleman of the region should own several bow-ties, open doors for ladies, and play in [...]
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Peels
325 Bowery, East Village, NYIt took us the better part of a month and about ten visits to make up our minds about Peels. Why? Because there is a LOT going on at this new restaurant from those who brought us Freemans. They’ve got breakfast, brunch, lunch, and dinner, all happening at either communal tables downstairs, or in the [...]
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Great Jones Cafe
54 Great Jones St., NoHo, NYAlthough it has since re-opened, when word spread a few months ago that a fire had closed Great Jones for the foreseeable future, we were concerned. It wouldn’t be right for the lights to go out without an Infatuation review. Having lived on Mulberry and Houston for a couple of years, Great Jones served as [...]
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Hill Country Chicken
1123 Broadway, Flatiron, NYHill Country Chicken is late to the fried chicken game. Blue Ribbon started the movement, followed soon after by Pies ‘n’ Thighs, Momofuku, The Redhead and The Commodore. Suddenly burgers were “so two years ago” and chicken became the new “it” food. Dave Chapelle, wherever he is, would be proud. Under normal circumstances, we’d probably [...]
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Seersucker
329 Smith St., Carroll Gardens, NYMuch like a seersucker suit, Southern food is hard to pull off when you aren’t in the South. Actually, a seersucker suit is hard to pull off unless you are an old guy from Charleston with a classic car and access to gunpowder. Next time you see some kid wearing one at the Standard beer [...]
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Tipsy Parson
156 9th Ave., Chelsea, NYTipsy Parson has done a perfect job of creating a place that looks and feels like a Southern restaurant, but at the cost of under-delivering on the food. Look elsewhere to satisfy your comfort food cravings.
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