It serves what owner Candice Fonseca calls, "peasant food", simple, tasty, honest dishes.
Straitened times call for simpler, more honest dishes and fewer courses.
What matters is the basic proposition: a simple urban bistro, in a town short of them, serving a changing menu of solid, honest dishes.
It doesn't go in for long sermons about its sustainable credentials, but they are there in every honest, homely dish.
The Algarvian kitchen excels at honest, hearty dishes, and the local beers and wines from the region, and neighbouring Alentejo, are world-class and inexpensive.
The carrots, potatoes and parsnips in his short rib pot-au-feu, another of the Brasserie classics indicated on the menu in boldface, have a startling freshness, as though they have just been pulled out of the dirt, and they redouble the dish's honest, hearty appeal.
The restaurant has been dishing out honest, unpretentious French bistro fare since 2008.
Sipan, 702 Amsterdam Avenue (94th Street), offers honest Peruvian fare, including dishes like lomo salteado, a beef stir-fry, in a brick-walled setting.
Under her Ask Polly moniker, Havrilesky dishes radically honest, no-nonsense advice tempered with self-deprecating humor, gleeful profanity and an unfettered voice.
