[Photo by Dave on 7th]
Back in July, the New York Central Framing Annex moved from 102 Third Ave. around the corner to East 12th Street...to the New York Central Art Supply Warehouse... We didn't know too much about the new bar-restaurant in the works for the renovated space, which looked as if it has a similar design vibe as Boulton & Watt on Avenue A...
In any event, Feast opens today. And Gothamist has the scoop on what to expect.
Feast styles its menu around the idea of dinner parties, where diners "share plates of food and long conversations" as they would dining at someone's home. Two different "feasts" are available at dinner time, including a Union Square Greenmarket feast that changes with the seasons and a nose-to-tail feast focused around a rotating selection of animals. Diners are seated around large, communal tables made from reclaimed wood, surrounded by vintage pieces like a cast iron stove from Cape Cod, hay pulleys and picture frames.
Here's the menu via the Feast website. According to the menu, the Farmer's Market Feast is $38 per person while the "Nose to Tail Lamb Feast" is $48 person.
Doors are open from 7:30 am – 4 pm Monday through Sunday for coffee and "freshly baked-on-premise-pastries." Feast proprietor Brian Ghaw also owns Savoy Bakery in East Harlem.
It's rare that I can look at a menu and not find SOMETHING that sounds appealing, but there really is nothing on this one that made me say, "Yeah, must have that". And the communal concept leaves me colder than Antarctica - I get enough of that on the subway.
ReplyDeleteI don't think it was a good idea to open a restaurant this nice until the 2 new apartment buildings being built on either side are occupied. That said, this block is pretty dumpy and I welcome some new (pig's) blood.
ReplyDeleteThe edibles sound nice and all but all this pressure to "share plates", and "have long conversations"...Feh. I don't like when restaurants place all these expectations on my behavior, or my interactions with others in my dining party. I am polite, have good table manners, I pay my bill and tip appropriately, what else do you want from me, Restaurant?! Yeesh! Don't boss me!
ReplyDeleteI think the food looks delicious. The problem is, I don't have many friends. This is not a place to eat alone.
ReplyDeleteI think it will do fine as an extension of the Smith - except even more expensive. I don't think I'd eat there and I live a block away.
ReplyDeleteAnother pretentious restaurant caterd only to the moneyed transietns. I'll give it two years before they fold. Feast this!
ReplyDeleteThis is ridiculous. I don't want to share my table, or (ahem, Sauce Restaurant) have my table right on top of the one next to mine.
ReplyDelete"Doors are open from 7:30 am – 4 pm Monday through Sunday"
ReplyDeleteIs this a misprint?
I give it 9 months.
ReplyDelete4:37, I have the same problem.Maybe it's like Joe's Shanghai in Chinatown, where they just seat you with other families and groups at a communal table?
ReplyDeleteGood to have a place where I can get some tail.
ReplyDeletewhat the hell. this restaurant has gotten so much press. bravo to their PR team. love the name, but the menu...eh. we'll see.
ReplyDelete"Feast styles its menu around the idea of dinner parties, where diners "share plates of food and long conversations" as they would dining at someone's home."
ReplyDeleteDoesn't that happen in every restaurant? The theory being that only when an evening is assigned the event title "dinner party" can conversation and food coexist peacefully.
Oh my God! It's all so deliberate, so overwrought, SO SUBURBAN!