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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Bobwhite Counter
94 Avenue C, East Village, NYWe were fully prepared to congratulate Mr. Bob White on cooking up the best fried chicken in the East Village until we read the bio on the Bobwhite Lunch and Supper Counter’s website. Apparently Bob had absolutely nothing to do with the aforementioned fried chicken, nor is he even a person. A “bobwhite” is actually [...]
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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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The Cardinal
234 E. 4th St., East Village, NYThe South is hot right now. Whether it’s the endless string of comfort food restaurants opening around town, The Alabama Shakes, or Paula Deen’s diabetes – Southern things are the talk of the town. And that is why we were exactly zero percent surprised to learn that The Cardinal, a new East Village restaurant, is [...]
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Red Rooster
310 Malcolm X Boulevard, Harlem, NYLet us start by saying that this is a meal we were really looking forward to. Despite the mixed reviews, the anticipation of a meal at Red Rooster was killing us. And yet even though people seem lukewarm on the food, a reservation at Red Rooster is really hard to get. We tried for months, [...]
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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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