The Italian menu is by the local chef Nick Crosley, whose excellent rustic plates include roast cod fillet with porcini mashed potatoes.
(He makes all of Kadeau's tableware). Lov's wife, Susanne, runs the store, which is tucked inside their lovely old farmhouse, while he fills it with beautiful things, such as rustic earthenware plates and glazed vases in shades of charcoal, chestnut and pale turquoise.
Rustic Melamine dinner plates come in a choice of seven colors.
It also handled with grace a lusty plate of rustic farrotto, a dish that paraphrases risotto using farro, a kind of wheat, instead of rice.
Then gastropubs and restaurants swapped plates for rustic slabs of black slate.
The table is laid with simple, rustic silverware, thick ceramic plates, and a dewy, chipped water pitcher.
BELOW 14TH STREET APERITIVO DI PALMA The small Italian restaurant Palma will open a 30-seat bar proffering mostly Italian wines, aperitivo-style cocktails using Italian spirits and small plates of rustic food.
This means small plates and rustic snacks, like quenelles made with deep-fried shrimp and black cod, soaking up dashi broth ($14), and charred chicken meatballs with a sweet scarlet varnish, four to a skewer ($6).
The plates look rustic and Japanese but are made to Puck's specifications by the venerable French porcelain manufacturer Bernardaud.
Seafood lovers should make the trip just for the beachfront crab market, where seafood is sold straight out of the ocean then perfectly plated at rustic restaurants on stilts.
