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“Smith's”

Occasion:	Cuisine:	Area:	Cost:	Rating:
Night Out	New American	West Village	Moderate	Great

ld be a fun process and that’s it’s really about happiness and love and commitment and all that good stuff. Some days it works and other days I’m back to the 4 train to City Hall plan. Anyway, the other night, after scheduling meetings with DJs (there will be no orchestra) and photographers, registering for our honeymoon (clearly, we can’t afford one after throwing this wedding), and picking out bride’s maid dresses (I need to find a new term for bride’s maid by the way. What do you think of Bride’s Hot Babes?), we left our wedding madness, er, planning behind us, and had a proper date for dinner at a place that takes your stresses away on entry. It’s called Smith’s.

Smith’s should not to be confused with THE Smith, the American Brasserie on Third Avenue or Smith & Mills, the cocktail den on North Moore Street. Smith’s is the snug and sexy new American restaurant from Red Cat and Harrison founding partner and owner of The Mermaid Inn Danny Abrams, Raul’s Cindy Smith and architect Mark Zeff (who designed Red Cat).

The restaurant is quite striking, a sort of glamorous Art Deco feel in black and white, with intricate swirling wrought iron trim and stunning lantern lighting that warms the rooms (there are three) with soft dreamy light. Each of the three rooms offers a different vibe. The front room is open and airy, filled with mirrored bistro tables and lined with a wall of windows facing out onto MacDougal Street. Past the host stand is the second room, a railroad car styled dining area with an extraordinary barrel ceiling covered in distressed squares of mirror, and filled with large booths made from smooth polished black leather tufted with copper-headed nails. Cream-colored walls are hung on one side with square oil paintings with individual portrait lighting, and Deco sconces dangling with heavy crystals on the other. Through the railroad car room you’ll find a square clubby bar room wrapped in cushioned velvet the color of the sky during a thunderstorm. At the bar snacks like spicy lobster deviled eggs are served on long white rectangular plates and cocktails of bourbon, lemon, and maple are shaken and poured into wide Old Fashioned glasses. It’s a place so intimate, sexy, and almost forbidden that you’ll feel as though you should’ve entered through a door hidden behind a bookcase, or after performing some special secret handshake. ... [more, click below]

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Posted: February 4, 2008

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