On a recent Friday at Daphne’s, a new Italian restaurant in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, the red sauce was green, made from chartreuse-colored tomatoes and a splash of vodka.
The lasagna came in the form of noodles fried into chips, broken over a dish of beef tartare topped with shoyu-cured egg yolk.
There was a Milanese cutlet, but its crisp carapace swaddled swordfish, not veal.
And the booths were neither rustic and wooden nor wrapped in red vinyl; the place’s co-owners, Gary Fishkop and Paul Cacici, had instead installed banquettes covered with custom-made buttery-soft spearmint green leather.
Farther east in Brooklyn, at Marie’s in Bushwick, the James Beard-nominated chef Miguel Trinidad serves chopped cheese ravioli the size of drink coasters and lamb patty white ragù.
Persons:
Gary Fishkop, Paul Cacici, James Beard, Miguel Trinidad
Organizations:
Carota, Memphis Group
Locations:
Daphne’s, Brooklyn’s Bedford, Stuyvesant, Milanese, Williamsburg, Carbone, Greenwich, Gowanus, Brooklyn, Marie’s, Bushwick