Unlike its Brooklyn smokehouse neighbors Fette Sau and Fatty 'Cue, which also tout responsibly sourced, high quality meat, Butcher Bar is designed to be a butcher shop first and a restaurant second. As it happens, barbecue was added to encourage thrifty Astorian locals to pay a little more for non-industrial meat. It's a hell of a carrot to complement an already carrot-like stick. More
Butcher Tom Mylan has yet to open his "food dork megaplex" for Brooklyn meatheads, but he does have a blog— The Meat Hook, a collection of thoughts, pictures, and a recipe for 20 gallons of chili. "We like to serve... More
Nobody knows beef like an old-fashioned butcher. So it shouldn't come as a surprise that one of my favorite roast beef sandwiches is made by Schatzie's, in a postage stamp-sized butcher shop in Carnegie Hill More
