According to a restaurant openings article in NY Magazine, Vinegar Hill House restaurant opens on the week of November 24, 2008.
Culinary frontierspeople Sam Buffa and Jean Adamson bring a seasonal menu and affordable wines to Vinegar Hill, the historic micro-neighborhood wedged between Dumbo and the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The pair met at Freemans, where Adamson was the chef and Buffa owns the affiliated barbershops—and discovered they both were drawn to the waterfront location across the river. The couple first took up residence in the nineteenth-century carriage house out back, and then built the 40-seat dining room using mostly scavenged and repurposed materials. [ed: The dining room tables and decor have a rustic feel to them.] Adamson describes her menu as Moosewood Cookbook–ish in its focus on grains, legumes, and vegetables, which are intended to supplement smaller portions of protein. Her fish will be sustainable and her meats broken down from whole animals procured from Fleisher’s, the upstate cult butcher, all cooked in the wood-burning oven. Also on offer: a raw bar, an American-cheese-and-homemade-cracker board, and $9 classic cocktails—liquor license pending.
We called to make reservations, and sounds like they’re working around the clock to open this week (as a ‘soft opening’, as early as this Thursday). The photo above was taken late last week. The photo taken indoors by NY Mag looks quaint and rustic, ready for customers:
(Photo: Noah Sheldon for New York Magazine)
Vinegar Hill House (vinegarhillhouse.com)
72 Hudson Ave., (nr. Water St.)
Vinegar Hill, Brooklyn
Phone: 718-522-1018
{Freemans Chef to Open Restaurant in Vinegar Hill, 03Sept2008}