Jeffrey, the expensive clothing store, and Pastis, the restaurant that offered celebrities a chance to do some chic meat market slumming in a faux-Parisian brasserie, opened in 1999.
As the meatpacking district to the south became less about meat and more about fashion, chic hotels and galleries, the building took on a new aura.
The meat market has become very chic in the last decade, with art galleries and restaurants and the sorts of bars that thrive by proximity to the smell of rot.
Like many leg-of-lamb recipes, Mr. Hopkinson directs you to stuff pieces of garlic and whole rosemary sprigs into the meat, which lends a rustic-chic look to the operation, but I kept finding those chunks and twigs jarring on the plate.
— Eric Asimov Chicago Reader: Are Midwestern-by-way-of-Cornwall meat patties on the brink of becoming chic?
At the bottom of Court Street in Carroll Gardens: Prime Meats (465 Court Street at Luquer Street; 718-254-0327; frankspm.chic, a chic Germanish steak and salad restaurant.
The industrial-chic décor features bare-filament light bulbs, some hanging from meat hooks.
Over at Biggy's Meat Market, they plan to debut a 2-foot, smoked Biggy Sausage and the Big Chic, which is 24-ounces of chicken breast meat.
A chic Dallas crowd is treated to dynamic performances -- from tableside presentation of meats to an open kitchen to live piano -- at this bustling contemporary spot where the dry-aged cowboy steak is a favorite.
Among other West Side purveyors is Endicott Meats, at 81st Street, whose sign puns on brains and obviously is inspired by the chewy chic of the Zabar influence.
