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SHEEP STATION Australian restaurant/bar on Douglass @4th Ave — Brooklynian

SHEEP STATION Australian restaurant/bar on Douglass @4th Ave

precious williams
precious williams
edited November -1 in Park Slope
Anyone have any info on that new restaurant and bar about to open on Douglass and 4th? I think its name is Sheep Station and apparently its Australian. Is this the beginning of the gentrification of 4th Ave...
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  • idlewild
    idlewild

    Subject: Re: Australian restaurant and bar on Douglass and Fourth Ave

    Precious Williams wrote: Anyone have any info on that new restaurant and bar about to open on Douglass and 4th? I think its name is Sheep Station and apparently its Australian. Is this the beginning of the gentrification of 4th Ave...
    That depends, can autobody shops be gentrified? What is Aussie cuisine btw? I picture it as nothing more than kangaroo steaks and vegemite on a stick.
  • precious williams
    precious williams
    Kangaroo is very tasty. No idea what else will be on their menu but looking fwd to finding out :)
  • livetotravel
    livetotravel

    Subject: Re: Australian restaurant and bar on Douglass and Fourth Ave

    What is Aussie cuisine btw?

    Scroll down to the review of Bondi Road on the LES . . .
    http://thestrongbuzz.com/brain/brain_view_brain.php
  • thecatspajamas
    thecatspajamas
    There's an Aussie place called "Eight Mile Creek" in the city and another one (on Ave C) whose name I can't remember.

    Here's the EMC menu:
    http://www.menupages.com/restaurantdetails.asp?areaid=0&restaurantid=5099&neighborhoodid=0&cuisineid=0
  • pitu
    pitu
    honestly, I thought this was a joke post.

    think there will be crocodile on the menu?
  • livetotravel
    livetotravel
    pitu wrote: honestly, I thought this was a joke post.

    think there will be crocodile on the menu?
    Europe, especially the UK supplies lots of both kangaroo and crocodile meat for menu items ... here's but one site

    http://www.osgrow.co.uk/
  • precious williams
    precious williams
    Livetotravel wrote: [quote=pitu]honestly, I thought this was a joke post.

    think there will be crocodile on the menu?
    Europe, especially the UK supplies lots of both kangaroo and crocodile meat for menu items ... here's but one site

    http://www.osgrow.co.uk/
    Yum. I eat a lot of ostrich. I buy it from the Key Food on Fifth Ave. The only place I've been able to find Kangaroo in the US is at Long Tan...
  • stella
    stella
    Isn't there an Australian restarant in Manhattan called the Sunburnt Cow? Anyone been there?
  • meandººd
    meandººd
    Stella wrote: Isn't there an Australian restarant in Manhattan called the Sunburnt Cow? Anyone been there?
    its pretty much a bar. its on ave. c . .on the other hand..Tuckshop on 1st ave & Houston has some good Aussie fare(meat pies)... i cant wait to go to this new aussie place, i love Australian food,. its heaps real good, trust me, I'm originally from down unda'. image
  • livetotravel
    livetotravel
    Traveling in a fried-out combie
    On a hippie trail, head full of zombie
    I met a strange lady, she made me nervous
    She took me in and gave me breakfast
    And she said,

    "Do you come from a land down under?
    Where women glow and men plunder?
    Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
    You better run, you better take cover."

    Buying bread from a man in Brussels
    He was six foot four and full of muscles
    I said, "Do you speak-a my language?"
    He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich
    And he said,

    "I come from a land down under
    Where beer does flow and men chunder
    Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
    You better run, you better take cover."

    Lying in a den in Bombay
    With a slack jaw, and not much to say
    I said to the man, "Are you trying to tempt me
    Because I come from the land of plenty?"
    And he said,

    "Oh! Do you come from a land down under? (oh yeah yeah)
    Where women glow and men plunder?
    Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
    You better run, you better take cover."
  • roxyrules
    roxyrules

    Subject: Restaurant opeing on 4th Ave and Douglass (Sheep's Station)

    I did a little investigating about the new restaurant on 4th ave and found out it is being opened by the woman who owned Smith St Kitchen on Smith St in Cobble Hill. If it is half as delicious as Sm St Kitchen was, I am there. I was sooo sad when that place closed. It was amazingly delicious!!
  • germfree!
    germfree!
    Livetotravel wrote: Traveling in a fried-out combie
    On a hippie trail, head full of zombie
    I met a strange lady, she made me nervous
    She took me in and gave me breakfast
    And she said,

    "Do you come from a land down under?
    Where women glow and men plunder?
    Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
    You better run, you better take cover."


    "
    ...etc

    That was highly uncalled for. Cruel, in fact.
  • carnivore
    carnivore
    germfree! wrote: That was highly uncalled for. Cruel, in fact.
    You're not serious, are you? :roll:
  • germfree!
    germfree!
    Carnivore wrote: [quote=germfree!]That was highly uncalled for. Cruel, in fact.
    You're not serious, are you? :roll:

    Whaddya reckon?? :shock:
  • livetotravel
    livetotravel
    germfree! wrote: [quote=Carnivore][quote=germfree!]That was highly uncalled for. Cruel, in fact.
    You're not serious, are you? :roll:

    Whaddya reckon?? :shock:

    And all this time I just thought it was a case of severe "Men At Work" withdrawal :lol:
  • whyfi
    whyfi
    Stella wrote: Isn't there an Australian restarant in Manhattan called the Sunburnt Cow? Anyone been there?
    Yeah, I had a kangaroo loin of some sort there. It was good - a lot like beef, but a tad gamey.
  • anonymous
    anonymous

    Subject: Sheep Station Restaurant on 4th Ave in Brooklyn

    "Sheep Station" opened its bar on Friday, September 22, 2006, and the Restaurant will open on Monday, October 2, 2006. It's on the South East corner of 4th Avenue and Douglas.
  • germfree!
    germfree!
    "Sheep Station?" Why not "Kangaroo Cucina," Platypus Palate," et al.

    Gawd. :roll:
  • erikka
    erikka

    Subject: Re: Sheep Station Restaurant on 4th Ave in Brooklyn

    Mary Mc wrote: "Sheep Station" opened its bar on Friday, September 22, 2006, and the Restaurant will open on Monday, October 2, 2006. It's on the South East corner of 4th Avenue and Douglas.
    That's a very appetizing name for a restaurant! I'm curious to see what'll be on the menu.
  • precious williams
    precious williams
    ^^^ barbecued sheep
  • pitu
    pitu
    I had a cocktail at this place on the way home from BAM...
    nice space (classy use of industrial materials), nice staff (from Oz and Montreal), nice party room in the back with a fireplace. Neighborhood place it most reminds me of: Long Tan.

    Kitchen to be open in a week or so -- burgers, oysters, fish, sausage rolls, meat pies. I forget which beers were on tap, but there's a variety. They're talking about showing futbol and rugby during the day...

    AND they have Hendrick's gin.

    as for BAM
    "Little Miss Sunshine" was GREAT.
  • germfree!
    germfree!
    Australian Rules football?
  • gringcorp
    gringcorp
    Went there last night. Nice atmosphere, though a limited menu. Fuller review, if you will excuse the plug, here:

    http://gumbyfresh.blogspot.com/2006/10/stations-mostly-bodacious-creation.html
  • doctorj
    doctorj

    Subject: Re: Australian restaurant and bar on Douglass and Fourth Ave

    Livetotravel wrote: What is Aussie cuisine btw?
    Aussie cuisine is an invention of theme restaurants and bars around the world in order to sell whatever. It is unknown inside Australia and would generally be considered tacky and UnAustralian.

    However the last 10-15 years you have been able find some of the world's best cuisine inside Australia for two reasons:
    1) After New York, Sydney and Melbourne are among the most ethnically diverse cities in the world, with large Italian, Greek, Turkish, Lebanese, Yugoslavian, Chinese, Malay, Thai, Korean, Indonesian, Cambodian and Vietnamese populations, and smaller numbers from just about everywhere.
    2) With only 20 million people in an area the size of the lower 50 states plus enormous territorial waters from Antartica to the equator, there is a plentiful variety of cheap, fresh and exotic produce from all climates, marine and terrestrial. The seafood market in Sydney for example is unparalleled.

    So there's a lot of fusion and experimentation happening besides all the traditional cuisines.
  • pitu
    pitu
    I should have mentioned, the co-owner/chef is a woman from Montreal.
    But, guuurrrrrl, she can cook!

    And Australian cuisine doesn't exist anyway, right?
    :D
  • doctorj
    doctorj
    pitu wrote: I should have mentioned, the co-owner/chef is a woman from Montreal.
    But, guuurrrrrl, she can cook!
    No problem. Canadians are honorary Australians and vice versa.

    Legal immigration to Canada is 250,000 p.a. per 32,000,000 or 0.8% p.a.
    19% of Canadians are foreign born.

    Actually, since we invaded Iraq and signed a bilateral FTA, Americans are honorary Australians and vice versa too.
    pitu wrote:
    And Australian cuisine doesn't exist anyway, right?
    :D
    Well, there's always Margaret Fulton... she's the undisputed matriarch of 'traditional' Australian cuisine. Her cookbook was first published in 1968, a year after Australia's version of the 14th amendment, and five years before the official end of the White Australia policy.
  • carol street
    carol street
    germfree! wrote: "Sheep Station?" Why not "Kangaroo Cucina," Platypus Palate," et al.

    Gawd. :roll:
    Sheep Station sounds more like a Scottish brothel than an antipodean restaurant. Wonder if they'll have frangers in the loo?
  • pitu
    pitu
    doctorj wrote: [quote=Anonymous]
    This is, honestly, all very interesting, imo,
    I agree, and I've got some ideas about how to get more quantitative. Maybe you could register, and we could ask for a topic split and move this to The Lounge or New York & Beyond rather than continue to use the PS Sheep Station thread?

    doctorj and guest,
    I agree it was time for the ethnic diversity discussion to split off on its own, and into the Randomstuff: NY and Beyond

    you'll find it HERE:
    http://brooklynian.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5768

    cheers!
  • finn
    finn
    The taps are lousy, for whatever reason, though they do have an okay selection. The sandwiches however are pretty delicious. Their hamburger is served with fried egg and pineapple. Kinda pricey.
  • finn
    finn
    To expand: the lamb sandwich was also strong, if less extravagant. Fries were nothing special. Beer was a little bit flat here and there, and in my estimation they only have one decent tap (Sierra Nevada, others included Stella, Bluepoint, #9) – actually something tasted off about the beer other than just flatness, which is disturbing. Also, our Parisian friend was disappointed that the oysters were not served with bread, the rest of us just thought they were nothing special.

    The pineapple on the burger though is kind of awesome.
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