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Brooklyn or New Albany? Brooklyn and the Butcher blurs the l

by Robin Garr » Wed Sep 07, 2016 10:12 am

Brooklyn or New Albany? Brooklyn and the Butcher blurs the line

LEO's Eats with Robin Garr

Brooklyn and the Butcher’s medium-rare outside skirt steak with Oscar trimmings.
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The other night, as we rolled across the Sherman Minton Bridge to New Albany for an evening at Brooklyn and the Butcher, it crossed my mind that New Albany is actually a little bit like Brooklyn.

New Albany, like Brooklyn, is a city across a river from a larger city, long ignored by its neighbors, but suddenly awash with excellent new places to dine, drink and have a good time. And as with Brooklyn, crowds are starting to make their way over to check it out.

Brooklyn and the Butcher, an attractive steakhouse in the old Monsch Hotel, was opened in February by Ian Hall, whose Exchange Pub + Kitchen helped kick off the New Albany restaurant renaissance.

The hotel hasn’t operated for years, but guests still have plenty of options. An inviting bar fills a good-size room to the right. Downstairs, the cozy Lantern Room offers relaxing sofa space for a small group. The charming patio out back offers an enticing option on mild evenings.

We proceeded directly to the dining room with its soft gray and white wood walls, mixed-style chandeliers, wooden floors and undraped white marble table tops, and settled in with adult beverages from the well chosen wine, beer and cocktail lists. (A $9 Pimm’s Cup made a particularly refreshing summer cocktail.)

A recently introduced seasonal menu starts with about 20 small plates from $7 to $21. Non-steak entrees, dubbed “composed plates,” are $16 for a house-ground beef burger with steak fries to $36 for a North Atlantic lobster tail stuffed with lump crab.

The “Big Steaks” menu features seven or eight steak from an 8-ounce shoulder tender ($21) to a 28-ounce dry-aged rib eye big enough for two ($70). Make your choice, then “build your plate” from a half-dozen treatments that add from $6 (for Gaucho-style with chimichurri) to $25 (for surf-n-turf with a lobster tail and scallops).

With our food-loving friends Anne and Don in tow, we loaded the table with all manner of goodies, and piled in. ...

Read the full review on LouisvilleHotBytes,
http://www.louisvillehotbytes.com/?p=5695

You'll also find this review in LEO Weekly’s Food & Drink section today.
http://www.leoweekly.com/category/food-drink/

Brooklyn and the Butcher
148 E. Market St.
New Albany, Ind.
(812) 590-2646
http://brooklynandthebutcher.com
https://facebook.com/brooklynandthebutcher
Robin Garr’s rating: 90 points

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