Off the Menu
Plus cocktails inspired by red sauce standards, bistro fare for the East Village and more restaurant news.
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Third Falcon
There are raw bars across the dinnerscape; a bistro tuned in to Northern France can’t be without one. Cali Faulkner, an alum of Crown Shy and Eleven Madison Park and the owner and chef of Third Falcon, spent time in the region while working in Paris. Sole meunière, a dish that wowed Julia Child when she first arrived in France, here comes with summer squash, evidence also of Ms. Faulkner’s passion for local produce. Lush desserts include buckwheat sticky toffee pudding, and brown butter-Calvados ice cream. Also on the concise menu in the light, spare restaurant trimmed in marine blue, are kouign-amann with caviar and côte de veau with apples. The wine list is brief, and there are ciders.
360 Myrtle Avenue (Adelphi Street), Fort Greene, Brooklyn, 929-545-1324, third-falcon.com.
Cecilia
Bistro fare, the likes of which you can order without consulting the menu (roast chicken, burgers, iceberg wedge and chopped liver), comes from the kitchen of the executive chef Adam Rule at this East Village spot. Russell Steinberg, an actor and emcee, is smashing a bottle of bubbly at the bow of this debut.
97 St. Marks Place (First Avenue) 212-598-5852, cecilia97.com.
Bar Enzo
We’re well-versed in red sauce Parms and the like, but red sauce drinks? In this homey second floor lounge, decorated like Nonna’s apartment, the cocktails borrow from the plate, with meatball spices infused into the Steinway & Ditmars, a take on the Michelada. The Bambino has red wine, cola and ginger, and Negronis and spritzes are also on call. The drinks are the work of Steven Lewis of Attaboy. The bar is the work of Greats of Craft, which has a location in Manhattan and specializes in craft beers. As for nibbles, you can get rings of taralli.
10-15 43rd Avenue (11th Street), Long Island City, Queens, barenzonyc.com.
Le Bar Penelope
Let’s hope that getting a drink at this richly appointed, well-draped new lounge adjacent to the Greek restaurant Avra on the Upper East Side doesn’t involve a wait like the one endured by Ulysses’s wife, Penelope. Despite the name and that it’s run by the Avra people, it isn’t Greek. Champagne is the libation of choice alongside luxe tidbits like caviar and shellfish. (Thursday)
14 East 60th Street, 212-274-8800, lebarpenelope.com.
Hercules Mulligan
This brand of spirits and ready-to-drink cocktails, named for a Revolutionary War hero and spy who was also a tailor, has opened a taproom for its products and cocktails, including a couple of beers exclusive to this location. It’s in a part of New York, the South Street Seaport, filled with Colonial history. Mulligan, an 18th century immigrant from Ireland, opened his tailoring shop in this neighborhood. There are a dozen Hercules Mulligan cocktails using ingredients of the period like rum, rye, ginger and bitters. Bar snacks are also served.
220 Front Street (Beekman Street), 917-781-0282, theherc.nyc.
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