We just had a very good dinner at FAUN on Vanderbilt Ave in {Prospect Heights} [Brooklyn] just up the street Their small menu has super diversity with plenty for vegetarians and pescatarians, good meat and pastas and a serious selection of wine .
https://www.faun.nyc/menu
Jim and I enjoyed sharing their papardelle with beef ragu and whipped ricotta, as well as the gigantic roasted skate wing in a buttery chile-scented sauce with hazelnuts, yellow raisins, capers etc.
A side of roasted broccolini and the focaccia (a BIG piece, enough for 4 for $4 with olive oil, along with a $7 plate of whipped ricotta were ample and delicious, and our veggie friends very much liked their roasted caraflex cabbage (its half of a long yellow cabbage, charred) and dressed with sesame hollandaise and other tasty stuff
and malfaldine pasta in a green pesto with stracciatella cheese. Jim wanted the duck and I thought the mussels on offer looked great so we will be back soon. A Pinot Blanc from Alsace was very good . $71 was not exactly a bargain, but hey.
