Yahoo Lifestyle The Couple Behind N.Y.C.’s Hit Restaurants Dame and Lord’s Opens a New Seafood Spot
For the husband-and-wife duo Ed Szymanski and Patricia Howard, third time’s the charm. Well, first and second time were the charm, too—the couple is already celebrated for their British seafood restaurant Dame and the meat-focused bistro Lord’s. Now they’re following up those hits with Crevette, another seafood restaurant, but this time inspired by the South of France, Spain, and Italy, as Eater reported recently.
Crevette, located in Greenwich Village, debuts on Tuesday. It’ll be the largest of Szymanski and Howard’s three restaurants, and Szymanski is using the menu to explore flavors beyond Great Britain for the first time. “I love the food of the South of France and Spain,” he told Eater. “I grew up spending a lot of time there.”
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The menu begins with raw-bar dishes, such as oysters and clams, chilled mussels, and poached pink shrimp with aioli and Calabrian chili. Small plates follow, like caviar and butter on grilled brioche and octopus and green harissa skewers. Howard’s favorite appetizer, she told Eater, is a Spanish tortilla with peekytoe crab and seaweed butter. You’ll also find a fritto of sea scallops, rock shrimp, and Amalfi lemons; grilled squid with pistou and butter bean salad; and a singular fresh pasta with a cassopipa of bay scallops, mussels, and clams.
Larger dishes run the gamut from seafood rice with Maine lobster, saffron, and aioli to a classic bouillabaisse of monkfish, hake, tilefish, red snapper, and striped bass. There’s a whole Dover sole for two, as well as omnivore-friendly dishes like grilled duck kebabs and golden chicken with pommes frites. (Don’t expect Dame’s thick-cut potatoes; these are more McDonald’s-inspired, Szymanski told Eater.)
The desserts sound as delicate as the fish: Menton lemon tart, pears poached in Cassis with whipped mascarpone, and chamomile ice cream with kumquats are just a few of the options. The cocktails, meanwhile, lean classic, with different variations of both Martinis and Negronis. And wines come from the same regions as the food—Provence, Catalonia, Languedoc, etc.
As for the design, Howard has taken cues from Aix-en-Provence and the Impressionism art movement. Warm woods, arches, and antique chairs soften up the space. Those elements are paired with white tablecloths, tapered candles, and flowers throughout. On the wall is a mural by the artist Michael McGregor, depicting a summer lobster party.
With Crevette opening in the depths of winter, let that serve as a reminder that warmer days are just around the counter. Thankfully, we don’t need to wait until then for a taste of the sea.
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