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“Get Fresh Market and Table”

Get Fresh, the year-old Park Slope market dedicated to creating prepared foods with fresh and local ingredients, has reinvented itself over the holidays as a full-service restaurant serving breakfast, lunch, weekend brunch, and starting January 16th—dinner, under the new name Get Fresh Table and Market.

Let me be the first to say that this change is coming just in time as I had a fairly disappointing (almost inedible) meal here for lunch in November accompanied by clueless service, which is not a great combination. Here’s hoping that new chef and co-owner Juventino Avila, formerly Executive Chef of Bonita (part of the Marlow & Sons and Diner family) and most recently of Double Crown, will set this café (and now BYOB restaurant) on a new path to good food and good service. 

So far, things sound good. For breakfast, he’s serving Lancaster eggs with winter potatoes and heirloom baked beans ($9), egg and cheese sandwiches on brioche and Berkshire bacon ($8), and oven-baked buttermilk pancakes ($13). At lunch, there’s a braised heritage Pork sandwich ($14), a roasted Giannone chicken sandwich ($14) and a slew of daily soups and salads.

When dinner starts on the 16th, expect starters like kale soup with heirloom beans, leeks and garlic toast, herb salad with local squash, green apples and an apple-jalapeño vinaigrette, and a goat cheese tart with frisee and cranberry-sage chutney. Main courses include braised pork belly with delicata squash broth, escarole and parsnip puree, roasted chicken with Brussels sprouts, Hubbard squash and gravy, seared wild salmon with wilted spinach, cannellini beans and roasted pepper aioli, and braised lamb shank with a cauliflower-Manchego cheese gratin.

Get Fresh Market and Table is located at 370 Fifth Ave (between 5th and 6th St), (718) 360-8469, and is now open daily for breakfast (available all day) and lunch (11am-5pm), and Weekend brunch (10am-3:30pm). Dinner begins January 16th and is served Tuesday - Sunday, 5:00pm - 10:00pm.

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Posted: January 8, 2009 - 7:11 pm

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