Prime Meats

From the creators of Frankie’s Spuntino 457 is their newest venture, an ode to the restaurants and food of New York at the turn of the 20th century—though after sampling Prime Meats, I’m pretty sure what I tasted was probably much better than anything you could have imagined back in the day. The relevance to early New York cuisine is that at Prime Meats just about all the food and drinks are locally and seasonally sourced. And that freshness comes out in the simplicity of the dishes; the steaks, using grass-fed beef from upstate farms, is as good as you might find at any Manhattan steakhouse. An Alpine tasting board of house-cured meats is the perfect accompaniment to a pint of Brooklyn-brewed Sixpoint Mason’s Black Wheat beer. Prime Meats also features a number of German dishes as tribute to that era when German restaurants dominated the New York cuisine and the sauerbraten (beef brisket brined for 3 days) and braised red cabbage is so good here that it would be a hit in any era. Service is professional and helpful in explaining the restaurant’s mission, but Prime Meats' no reservation policy is the only drawback, especially if you are venturing from Manhattan.

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