Hill Cafe replaces Kush. Awful NYTs review follows.

boygabriel

http://fort-greene.thelocal.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/restaurant-review-hill-cafe/

I'm not sure which part of this review is the best (worst). I'm going to go with the part that tells you to "settle into a booth with a beer or glass of wine and gaze out onto the intersection of Fulton and Grand."

aka one of the biggest drug corners in the neighborhood. I hope that Hill Cafe paid Melissa Feldsher to write that review, otherwise I just pity her (and the NYTs).

I'm very sorry to see a unique and delicious West African restaurant be replaced by another American fusion joint.

Sad.

awn

Isn't it the same owners? The remodeling was very slight. I only ate there twice: once when it was kush, and once at the new place. It was OK both times. The 'West African' menu was really a French inflected fusion, I thought.

idlewild

A few West African countries were French colonies not so long ago. Senegal, Ivory Coast, Vietnam, Haiti, Tahiti and so on, are just a few colonies that absorbed French culinary tradition.

boygabriel

awn you're right it wasn't purely west african. It was french-north african-middle eastern whathaveyou.

It was a unique combination.

French American fusion is very unoriginal, IMO

rh

Same owner. Menu hasn't changed all that much. Food is still great! The renovation isn't as comfy, unfortunately.

boygabriel

I'll definitely check it out for myself, just disappointed in what I've heard so far.

arzan

Idlewild said:

A few West African countries were French colonies not so long ago. Senegal, Ivory Coast, Vietnam, Haiti, Tahiti and so on, are just a few colonies that absorbed French culinary tradition.

Last I checked Vietnam, Haiti and Tahiti were never West African.