Eat @ Jack
I have very few rules for dealing with friends. One rule though, is that it's always good to be friends with a cook :) Also, if your friend is French and tells you something is delicious, you are to eat it and ask questions later.
habeasbrulee, of course, is not french, but she and her partner are fantastic cooks. They get the "French treatment", and I always enjoy simply putting myself in their more-than-capable hands and eating whatever they give me.
Last night was a practice run for their occasional restaurant, Jack, held at the Brooklyn Lyceum. As you know, I have a lot of weird food issues, and they worked with my issues beautifully. I had a fantastic meal that didn't trigger me at all. We had a version of the April 12th menu, everything was really fantastic. There were little extras here and there - a lobster(?) Indian style puff fried in butter for everyone else, and olive oil for me - oh, and a fantastic grapefruit/rosemary sorbet that totally woke me back up after the rich Miso-Butterscotch Pork Bun. When everyone else had a cheese plate - I was brought a salad with one of the best and meatiest parsnips I've ever had. Often, when I've been places, I feel a bit jealous that I can't have what everyone else was having.
I didn't feel jealous last night!
Afterwards, we all gave some feedback.
I want to go back. Maybe the night before my wedding ;)
Jack is BYOB, intimate, communal, friendly, fun, surprising, theatrical, educational, and most of all - delicious.
Go, and have a marvelous time :)
N.
habeasbrulee, of course, is not french, but she and her partner are fantastic cooks. They get the "French treatment", and I always enjoy simply putting myself in their more-than-capable hands and eating whatever they give me.
Last night was a practice run for their occasional restaurant, Jack, held at the Brooklyn Lyceum. As you know, I have a lot of weird food issues, and they worked with my issues beautifully. I had a fantastic meal that didn't trigger me at all. We had a version of the April 12th menu, everything was really fantastic. There were little extras here and there - a lobster(?) Indian style puff fried in butter for everyone else, and olive oil for me - oh, and a fantastic grapefruit/rosemary sorbet that totally woke me back up after the rich Miso-Butterscotch Pork Bun. When everyone else had a cheese plate - I was brought a salad with one of the best and meatiest parsnips I've ever had. Often, when I've been places, I feel a bit jealous that I can't have what everyone else was having.
I didn't feel jealous last night!
Afterwards, we all gave some feedback.
I want to go back. Maybe the night before my wedding ;)
Jack is BYOB, intimate, communal, friendly, fun, surprising, theatrical, educational, and most of all - delicious.
Go, and have a marvelous time :)
N.