Telepan Local offers almost none of the virtues of small-plates eating with most of the drawbacks. The meal unfolds, or unravels, on tables the size of the ones in cocktail lounges where, in another era, people had manhattans and mixed nuts while waiting to be moved to the dining room. “We’re a farm-to-table American tapas restaurant,” my server said one night. “All the food is small plates...
Crab Boils at Back Forty; Telepan Local's Happy Hour:
EAST VILLAGE — Back Forty is bringing back its annual summer crab boils on June 3. Then, and on every Tuesday until Labor Day, both Back Forty and Back Forty West will serve communal feast of crabs, cornbread, corn on the cob, potatoes, string beans, and fruit cobbler to groups of ticket holders. Tickets are $50 per person, and are on sale now for all June boils. [EaterWire]
TRIBECA — Telepan...
Bill Telepan's eponymous brand migrates to Tribeca, bringing a cozy, casual eatery to the culinary canyon of Greenwich Street. The menu boasts mostly small plates of imminently shareable American dishes, from grilled cheese and pigs in a blanket to bay scallops and grilled beef short ribs.
Lauded greenmarket cuisine pro Bill Telepan arrives Downtown with this TriBeCa New American.