The restaurant seats 32 people. It attracts a weekend brunch line that stretches around the corner of the block, which includes New York foodies and many foreign tourists.
Menu The restaurant serves refined
comfort food and baked items, which are made daily on its premises, with breakfast (which it serves all day), lunch, brunch, and dinner. Among the items that it is known for are its blueberry pancakes.
New York magazine called them the best pancakes in town. It is also noted for its fluffy buttermilk biscuit sandwich with home-made tomato jam, and lauded for its baked goods, including its
scones and muffins. Its home-made desserts, including muffins, organic apple crumb, chocolate cake, maple-bourbon-pecan pie, creamy pumpkin cheesecake, and cherry pie, are topped with ice cream from the
Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory. Its meals include
cage-free eggs, omelets, granola, brioches, grilled organic
free range chicken, buttermilk
fried chicken, hamburgers, large warm buttermilk biscuits, cheese
grits fries, salads, and market soups. Drinks include lime
squash and
bellinis.
Owners It is owned by a husband-and-wife team of restaurateurs, seasoned chef Neil Kleinberg and DeDe Lahman. Kleinberg has responsibility for the restaurant's kitchen. Lahman is the restaurant's catering director and handles back-end responsibilities such as public relations.
pancakes
History The restaurant began in 2001 as a bakery and a small coffee cafe, and over time became a full-fledged seven-days-a-week restaurant with a
liquor license.
Awards and accolades In December 2010,
The New York Times described it as a "brunch magnet", and
The New York Daily News said that the "legendary" dining destination was "the city's hottest breakfast nook".
Time magazine cited it for having New York City's best pancakes in both 2005 and 2008. In 2010, Kleinberg won
Godiva Chocolatier's SWEETest Challenge Award for his Warm Upside Down Pear Cake with pecan ice cream, caramel sauce, and
pecan brittle at the third annual
Food Network New York City Wine & Food Festival. In 2011,
Poor Taste Magazine rated it # 1 in its list of the "100 Best Brunch Spots in America". ==Cookbook==