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I finally made it over here after years of accolades from my other wife, who moved to Fort Greene after deciding that Williamsburg has sold out. I'm not sure if that's here official position, but considering she won't comment if I'm wrong, I'm gonna stick with it. For those of you beloved nine that don't know Fort Greene there's not too much too it. There's a big steep park with a fort, just south of Flushing Ave. If you live in Manhattan then Fort Greene is one of those neighborhoods you drive through while lost looking for some God forsaken brownstone. It's that memorable.
I finally made it over here after years of accolades from my other wife, who moved to Fort Greene after deciding that Williamsburg has sold out. I'm not sure if that's here official position, but considering she won't comment if I'm wrong, I'm gonna stick with it. For those of you beloved nine that don't know Fort Greene there's not too much too it. There's a big steep park with a fort, just south of Flushing Ave. If you live in Manhattan then Fort Greene is one of those neighborhoods you drive through while lost looking for some God forsaken brownstone. It's that memorable.
As for the mighty Roman's: from what I understand this is a second under taking from the folks at Diner in the same location, the first being the second incarnation of Bonita. Bonita part deux closed and re-opened as Roman's as a sort of quasi gourmet comfort food that we have grown accustomed to after all these years from Broadway and Berry. I just ate there and managed to not get too drunk, so what we had for dinner is still fresh in my sodden mind:
Two crustini: Chicken Liver pate and some sort of Chick Pea concoction.
String bean salad with a poached eggSpaghetti and meatballs
Tortellini
Round steak with hen of the woods mushrooms
Cheese plate
two sorbets: Chocolate and Fruitish. The chocolate was heavily salted mind you.
Butter cookies
My actual wife was quite late so we ate a lot of food over the course of about two hours. And just how was it? Well, pretty good I suppose. But not great. It's interesting, the atmosphere, the wine, the service, all top notch. If I'd been drinking or if the night had not been out of synch, (having to wait for an hour for one of your party will do that to you) then I would think that Roman's was out of this world. They were also nice enough to seat us still incomplete, which is rare these days.
The problem with Romans, and Moto, and Five Leaves, and Dumont, and Franky's, and Diner, and Hotel de Mano, and the Bedford, and that new uber beer Garden in Greenpoint, and Northeast Kingdom,, and Walters, and Rye, and the Richardson, and god knows what else is opening in the next six months is that it's been done! I guess that's why the perfectly good food is boring. When is someone in the greater Brooklyn area open up a restaurant that makes out of this world French? Or Italian? Or Russian? Or Chinese? Why can't Brooklyn have a Shun Lee palace? Or Nobu? And not in the old world style that is so cache, but a new, sexy, white linen Italian restaurant run by serious restaurateurs? One or eight comes to mind. We need more of that.
In the meantime I'll take Roman's as it is all I've got. But I have to say this whole turn of the century Brooklyn Brand thing is starting to get a little old.
In the meantime I'll take Roman's as it is all I've got. But I have to say this whole turn of the century Brooklyn Brand thing is starting to get a little old.
