Hill Cafe replaces Kush. Awful NYTs review follows.

boygabriel · March 2011

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 · March 2011

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 · March 2011

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 · March 2011

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 · March 2011

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

boygabriel · March 2011

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

arzan · March 2011

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.

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