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Danny went to the Daniel Boulud's new place, DBGB Kitchen and Bar!!! Enjoy his review!


There's nothing that catches my attention faster than when someone tells me about a good deal. As someone who once brought his own rice into a take-out restaurant, I'm someone who constantly looks out for a bargain. You often see prix fixe lunch for Summer/Winter Restaurant Week (RW) in New York. Seasoned veterans of such events know to carefully select restaurants, because some of the menus are just not worth it. Recently I was made aware of a new lunch deal via Eating in Translation. The lunch deal is $22 and not part of a RW promotion.

It's from Daniel Boulud's most recent restaurant in New York called DBGB Kitchen & Bar.



At DBGB Kitchen and Bar, they specialize in recession friendly food like sausages and burgers. Their burgers carry names like The Yankee, the Frenchie, or my favorite name, the Piggie. That last one is topped with smoked pulled-pork. The guy sitting a few feet away exclaimed the Piggie was the best hamburger of his life. That's something to keep in mind, unfortunately none of the burgers are part of the prix fixe lunch menu. As for the menu, you get two choices of appetizers, entrees and desserts.





To start, you could choose from butter lettuce or cucumber soup. Sausage and eggs or mussels for the entrees. For dessert, a chocolate cake or a sundae. I picked the cucumber soup, sausage and eggs, and

chocolate cake.



My meal at the bar of DBGB started off great with the chilled cucumber soup. At the top of the soup were some little tapioca balls that were fun; the smooth, slippery texture was a nice complement to the creamy soup. Cool and refreshing, the soup was a departure from the muggy atmosphere outside. The soup comes with a little bread stick and a thin slice of salmon. I wasn't sure how the two went together, but anytime there's some salmon, I'm down with it. It was a delicious bite of salmon that made me lust for more.



The entree I ordered was basically your typical brunch item. For some reason I didn't get that impression when I read the menu, and the presentation was a little disappointing for me. I kinda of expected a

sausage dish but it felt more like an upscale Denny's breakfast. The sausage was a "chipolata" which was "long pork sausage, pommes mousseline". I guess that means it's a pork sausage that was made with some pureed apples? No complaints about the taste; it was really good sausage. Unlike conventional breakfast links, these weren't marred by unnecessary grease (maybe that's where the pommes mousseline came into play?). The best part of the dish was actually the hash browns. They

were super crispy on the outside. If they could replace the eggs with even more hash browns, I might be down with that.





To finish off the meal, I went with a chocolate cake. It was rich, creamy, and featured the taste of hazelnut in it. I forgot to write down the actual description on the menu, and the online menu currently

says "chocolate coffee cake", but there was not really any coffee flavor. More hazelnutty, which was to my liking.



You would be hard pressed to find a better deal in town for $22 dollars. I would highly suggest DBGB to anyone who wants a nice prix fixe meal for lunch. Even though I thought my entree was a bit weak, the meal overall was quite an enjoyable experience. Maybe if you go, you can try the mussels and tell me how they are? If they ever present a more worth while entree as part of the prix fixe, I would call it a steal. For now, it's just a good deal and probably beats many Summer Restaurant Week offerings you're going to find.

DBGB
299 Bowery (between Houston and first Street)
New York, NY10003