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Restaurant with Focus on Local, Seasonal Food to Take Over Franklin Roadhouse Space
Two New York culinary vets will helm the still unnamed restaurant; hope to open within six months.
An “American casual” restaurant helmed by two New York City culinary vets plans to move into the space vacated by Franklin Roadhouse, says I Love Franklin Avenue.
The restaurant, still unnamed as of yet, will seat 15 at the bar, 50 in the main dining room and 20 outside, says the blog. The chefs, Jacques Belanger and Lev Gewirtzman, will highlight season ingredients, local meat and fish, an “in-house” charcuterie and raw bar, says I Love Franklin Avenue.
According to the post, Gewirtzman currently serves as Chef de Cuisine at Ouest on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, while Belanger is presently the Executive Chef at MP Taverna in Roslyn, NY.
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Both chefs are Crown Heights residents hope to open their doors in five or six months, says the blog.
The space, at 688 Franklin Avenue, , which opened in April of last year. The “part bar, part pizza and burger joint, part live music venue,” was helmed by local restaurateur Marcello Pascalino and hoped to evoke “the spirit of Americana in the 1950s.”
