Augustine: French Brasserie-Style Cuisine Inside The Beekman
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[tw-divider]The Scoop[/tw-divider]
- The pedigreed restaurateur Keith McNally opens his 14th restaurant in NYC (The Odeon, Minetta Tavern, Balthazar) with the addition of Augustine inside the Financial District’s historic Beekman Hotel — a gothic-style 1890s office building with a towering nine-story atrium at its center
- A neighbor to Tom Colicchio’s Fowler and Wells, Augustine is open from breakfast through dinner with a French brasserie-inspired menu; indulgent mains include the Whiskey Burger with single-malt scotch-braised onions and comté cheese, salt-baked oysters, angel hair pasta with sea urchin, and roasted bone marrow with oxtail marmalade and roasted garlic
- Cocktail maven Dale DeGroff heads the drink program with head bartender Francois Morrison. Look out for old-fashioned libations plus house cocktails, a specialized martini menu, and French-focused wines
[tw-divider]Insider Tip[/tw-divider]
Dale Degroff, AKA King Cocktail, has a noteworthy background — Degroff was a pioneering influence at New York’s famous Rainbow Room in the ’80s, has won two James Beard awards, and is often credited with reinventing the bartending profession through his gourmet approach to the craft
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