Greenmarket

Top 10 Greenmarket Restaurants, #2

With The Grocery’s debut in 1999, Brooklyn’s Carroll Gardens—once the land of lawn chairs and “social clubs”—had its culinary coming out party. Chef-owners Sharon Pachter and Charles Kiely, late of Savoy, brought a Manhattan finesse to then-barren Smith Street, and enterprising foodies braved the F train for slow-rendered duck breast. Despite the neighborhood’s sea change during the intervening years, this shoebox-size 30-seater has managed to stay true to its vision of dressed-to-impress farm fare. The menu may be as trim as the moss-colored space—only 12 items are offered—but the ambition is evident in dishes that refuse to settle for bare-bones simplicity.  read more »