PrintFirst Look at DBGB, Daniel Boulud's New Brasserie on the Bowery
"Jim's matzoh ball soup." Photographs by Michele Humes
Daniel Boulud's new spot DBGB won't open for a few weeks, but his team hosted a media preview today. You probably don't associate the classically-trained French chef with matzoh ball soup and hot dogs, but both were on the brasserie-meets-diner menu. The former is a recipe from his executive chef Jim Leiken. "Everyone thinks their mother's recipe for matzoh ball soup is the best in the world, and Jim thinks his mother's is," Boulud said from a ladder (they're still in construction zone phase).
The menu will feature three burgers. Note: this one was in mini form for the event.
As for the "DB Dog" (all beef, made from shoulder meat) it's all part of the sausage theme here. "I have a fascination with sausage," Boulud said in a giddy little boy tone. He'll have at least 14 on the menu, all of which are made in-house by his charcutier Sebastien Loyzance (sausagier seems like a title that should exist). Boulud insinuated a currywurst in the works. The full sausage menu, after the jump.
Hello, sausages. But note: no corn dogs.
The sorbet-ice cream mixes were pretty amazing. Each included a flavor duo: apricot-pistachio, coffee-caramel, and kreik beer-cherry.
The design is going for the restaurant supply store feel of the surrounding Bowery neighborhood. It has the open kitchen set-up, and the shelves separating diners from cooks are crowded with copper pots from Boulud's chef cronies. They are each labeled: Ferran Adrià, Heston Blumenthal, Jacques Pepin, and others who have gifted him a pot. "It's like the Hard Rock Cafe of cooking, but instead of Eric Clapton's guitar, we have pots."
DBGB
299 Bowery, New York NY 10003 (b/n Houston and 1st Street; map)
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5 Comments:
Any more details on the burgers?
kathryn at 8:58PM on 05/16/09
Grub Street has the menu, here is the burger section:
Burgers
The Yankee - $11
(5 oz. beef w/lettuce, tomato, onion, on sesame bun with New York pickle)
Frenchie - $16
(w/ crispy pork belly, caramelized onion, arugula, with cornichon and mustard)
Piggie - $14
(w/ Daisy May’s pulled pork, jalapeno mayo, lettuce, cheddar-cornbread bun with mustard vinegar slaw)
Menage a Trois – all three with the works - $45
Monster – any of them double stacked - add $5
Nick Solares at 9:21AM on 05/17/09
I want to go to there.
ChiefHDB at 11:00PM on 05/17/09
I find it hilarious that the decor of this joint is supposed to pay homage to the restaurant supply stores that used to populate the Bowery. Force 'em out, then go all damp-eyed with nostalgia for what you have helped destroy.
Barbara Hanson at 9:49AM on 05/18/09
| sausagier seems like a title that should exist
Isn't that a wurstmacher? I think charcuterie refers to all preserved meats (yes sausages, but also smoked or cured meats and pates.) Anyone know the French or Italian equivalent?
gregb at 3:32PM on 05/18/09