Monday, May 27, 2013

Mayfield

Southern food with French presentation on trendy Franklin Ave. This slender spot boasts "Manhattan minded" cuisine with "Brooklyn prices." The service is friendly and almost secondary to the amazing food. Dollar oysters from the West Coast(Malbecs) are available during happy hour and they did make me happy. The main dish of trout with fingerlings in a Bernaise sauce for $18 was worth at least double and was outstanding flavorwise and presentation wise. The dessert of pineapple/upside down cake with rum caramel sauce and Il Laboratorio ice-cream for $6 was divine. The flavors of the food here are so on point and the value bangs out this spot as a dining destination worth visiting and revisiting on Franklin. GO! GO!

The Nomad

Breakfast in the Atrium room was like eating in the living room of Louie the XIVth. A plush & posh baroque space with officious, cold service and disappointing chow considering the hype of the Nomad. Pancakes with ricotta butter for $16 was ok- Pancakes were flavorless and ricotta butter served separately in a plastic container- tacky. My dad's eggs benedict for $24 was pretty, but tiny and they tried to take it away way too soon. The Intelligencia coffee served in a copper beaker was impressive, but for a great hotel breakfast, nothing beats the Hotel Americano for food and service. Slow Go!