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| | Borough Food & Drink | | | “Zak Pelaccio pioneered ?Brooklyn Global? at Chickenbone Cafe, and now, with Jeffrey Chodorow?s backing, he?s honing what will someday be dubbed ?five-borough...” —nymag | | Cuisine: American (New), American (Traditional) |
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| | | | | | Borough Food & Drink is a quizzical twist on the “locavore” movement, whose adherents insist on eating food grown close to home. Borough’s co-creator and contributing chef, Zak Pelaccio, has assembled a menu that relies primarily on products found in the five boroughs--those raised, assembled, o... Read More | | | | | | Gothamist is just recovering from the food coma that followed Wednesday night's preopening party at Borough Food & Drink. By the time we got there the room was jammed with all manner of food bloggers, writers and restaurant industry insiders all gleefully sampling items from the menu of the new ... Read More | | | | | | Borough Food and Drink in its bleak heyday.Photo: Melissa HomThe ill-fated Borough Food and Drink will be replaced by a French-influenced American bistro, reports Gael Greene on Insatiable Critic. The restaurant faltered early and last year saw its management taken over by Zak Pelaccio and his busin... Read More | | | | | | Great Concept, cool space - yummy food | | | | | | The stuff on the shelves is for sale, tooPhoto: Melissa Hom For city gastronomes (we won’t say chowhounds), there are three reasons to be excited about Borough Food and Drink, the Jeffrey Chodorow and Zak Pelaccio gastropub opening this week. First, there’s Z-Man’s return to the kind of freewheelin... Read More | | | | | | Flatiron: Gael Greene reports the news—which we will remind you has been a long time coming—that Jeffrey Chodorow and Zak Pelaccio's year old Borough Food & Drink is finally giving up the ghost. It will be replaced by a restaurant from the owners of Almond and Almoncello on the Montauk highway... Read More | | | | | | This week's helping of Dish is less ample than usual; chalk it up to summer slowdown. Still, there's a few new spots worth checking out. 1) New York Hot Dog Company: A fancy frankfurter stop has opened in Tribeca. Via a reader: "New York Hot Dog Company is now open...New hot dog place at Chamb... Read More | | | | | | Pelaccio: What, me worry?Photo: Patrick McMullanZak Pelaccio is taking over Borough Food and Drink, where he is now consulting chef, from Jeffrey Chodorow’s China Grill Management. Though changes probably won’t be seen until after the New Year, Pelaccio and his partner, 5 Ninth and Fatty Crab owner ... Read More | | | | | | The retail counter at BFD, may it rest in peace.Photo: Ben StechschulteThe relaunching of Borough Food and Drink under Zak Pelaccio has already begun in earnest, but in an unexpected way: The restaurant has given its retail counter, one of the main pillars of its identity, the heave-ho. Why? More dr... Read More | | | | | | Give Borough Food and Drink another shot, Bruni.Photo: Ben Stechschulte Earlier this month, Frank Bruni assailed Borough Food and Drink for its service, referring to it as “loopy, stop-and-go befuddlement.” How did that happen in a Jeffrey Chodorow restaurant? Turns out chef Paul Williams took ill a... Read More | | | |
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