Good Fork menu

Good Fork menu

Quite impressed with Red Hook's newest restaurant, The Good Fork. It's hardly fair to compare it to 360 just down the street (which New York magazine called one of the five best in Brooklyn,) but Good Fork is good food with an atmosphere that will leave you not wanting to leave even after you've lingered over dessert (for us, Steve's Authentic Key Lime Pie.)

There's space out back, but for now all the seating's indoors. We had dumplings, bitter green salad, skate, the burger and a $26 bottle of wine. Service was a little slow, but they've only been open a couple weeks. A welcome addition to the Van Brunt offerings.

The full menu (which is dated April 2006):

starters
dumplings - homemade, pork and chive 5
hot wings - scallion sour cream 6
crispy veal sweetbreads - braised endives, watercress & blood orange salad 10
bitter greens - goat cheese & apple potato cake, caramelized onions, roasted beets 8
gumbo - chicken, kielbasa, shrimp, okra, rice 8
organic mixed green salad - house dressing, homemade pickled vegetables 5
crab cake - chili aioli, radish sprouts, endives 9/18*

mains
skate - asparagus, mushrooms, potatoes, beurr blanc sauce 16
roast cloonshee chicken - braised leeks, potato parsnip mash, black bean sauce 14
"steak and eggs" Korean style** - grilled skirt steak, kimchee rice, fried egg 17
ravioli - arugula, mushroom and fresh ricotta filling, parmesan brown butter sauce 12
slow braised berkshire pork - polenta with kabocha squash, grilled scallions 14
pan seared scallops - shrimp scallion pancakes, asparagus, soy vinaigrette 20
homemade papardelle - wild boar ragu 15
the good fork burger - 8 oz fresh ground beef, tempura onion rings 9.50

sides 5
kimchee rice
onion rings
sauteed kale with bacon
potato-parsnip mash
shrimp scallion pancakes

*entree is a double portion with sauteed spring vegetables
** available with tofu for 12

Beer on tap: Six Point cream ale, Yeungling and Hoegaarden
Bottle: Presidente, Jever, Bud, Bud Lite, Amstel Lite
Reds $5 to $7 by the glass; $19 to $38 by the bottle
White $5 to $8 by the glass; $19 to $29 by the bottle
- posted by Amy @ 4/09/2006 05:32:00 PM