Leland Eating and Drinking House
Lovely Leland Eating and Drinking House offer to dine several ways between its patio seats, covered “cozy cabin” structures, bar, and two adjacent dining rooms. Everyone will enjoy excellent carte menu items like trout rillette, mushrooms, and amazing house-made sourdough and an aged and brined half chicken, grilled pork chop, and whole fried fish whichever configuration you choose. Parties of eight or more receive a set menu.
The menu is divided, too, split into three sections. Most of the snacks and plates could just as accurately be called appetizers, and the large plates entrées. Order any combination and you’ll look like you know what you’re doing. Everything here makes sense. A decent selection of beer and wine are available from the bar, in addition to a brief cocktail list. Tabled together, the J Bomb, which layers a barely bitter icy Negroni over frozen margarita base, and the Cider House, with a palm-sized apple slice in the rye, lemon, and maple seem to nod goodbye to this season’s weeks of heart and humidity and break into the fall to come.
Google rate: 4.5/5.0
Website: www.lelandbrooklyn.com
Address: 755 Dean Street, New York
Contact: 646-470-7008
Opening hours: Sunday (10am–4pm & 5pm–10pm); Wednesday & Thursday (1pm–4pm & 5pm–10pm); Friday (1pm–4pm & 5pm–11pm); and Saturday (10am–4pm & 5pm–11pm)
