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“Fatty 'Cue”

Occasion:	Cuisine:	Area:	Cost:	Rating:
Night Out	Barbecue	Brooklyn	Moderate	Great

I don't take the M train often. The last time I did, it was over two years ago to have dinner at Peter Luger's--that old bastion of steak in that sits like some sort of proud traif pariah on the edge of the Hasidic neighborhood of Williamsburg. But last night, there I was again, on a shiny clean M train. Only this time, my destination was not Peter Luger's. I was there for barbecue, sort of.

I rode the M train out of the blackness of the subway tunnel into the hazy dappled light of a summer day turning to a humid evening, rumbling over the Manhattan Bridge as cell phones chimed to life, and exited at Marcy Avenue, climbing down the stairs to Broadway where I searched for South 6^th Street. There was South 8^th to my left, and South 5^th to my right but no South 6^th Street. I asked a few folks idling on Broadway who appeared to fit in more than me. They had no idea. I turned on my iPhone and hit maps. The blue arrow pinpointed my location and showed me the way: Broadway, when taken to the end, just past Luger's, turned into South 6^th Street. I was still unsure, but a few blocks into my journey, a breeze rifled the hot stale air, and I knew that I was going in the right direction. It was a faint whiff of smoke, a soft sweetness, a gentle note of something wonderful basting slowly in a cooker filled with hickory. Forget technology, I thought as I slid my iPhone back into my purse. My nose would be my guide. I followed the smoke past Luger's, like some cartoon character following its stomach, and past Velvet, where the smell of hickory was temporarily masked by a cloud of cigar smoke. But soon, I was back on the trail again. Ironically, I found my destination just past a shiny health club called SOMA. I should have walked straight into that gym and checked in for a week, but instead, I spent three hours in the mouth of indulgence-at Fatty ‘Cue-- drinking and eating (feasting really) ripping into hunks of smoky meats and fish (duck, pork, beef, and mackerel too, bones and all) and licking my chili-stained fingers clean of fresh pulpy lime juice and peppery fish sauce. What heaven.

Zac Pelaccio's Fatty ‘Cue is the latest in a line of Malay-inspired eateries that began in some form at Chickenbone Café and came to bold life at Fatty Crab in the West Village and now on the Upper West Side, too. Here at Fatty ‘Cue, where he has enlisted the smoking s ... [more, click below]

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Posted: June 4, 2010

Other restaurants in Brooklyn :
+ Chickenbone Cafe-- Closed   + Pier 116-- Closed   + Chestnut   + Lunch at Peter Luger's   + 360   + Palo Santo   + The Good Fork   + Porchetta-- Closed Now   + Bocca Lupo   + Flatbush Farm   + DuMont Burger   + Dressler   + Farm on Adderley   + The Grocery   + Saul   + Black Mountain Wine House   + The General Greene   + Char No. 4   + James   + Chestnut   + No. 7   + Vinegar Hill House   + Motorino   + Buttermilk Channel   + Buttermilk Channel   + Vutera   + Watty & Meg    + Prime Meats   + Aqualis Grill   + Jack the Horse Tavern   + Roman's   + Fatty 'Cue   + Thistle Hill Tavern   + Broken English   + Trix, by Dara Pollak   + An Ode to New Orleans in Williamsburg: Maison Premiere, By Dara Pollak   + Brooklyn Wok Shop by Dara Pollak   + Arthur on Smith   + La Vara   + Gran Electrica   + Pok Pok Ny   + Ganso    + Reynard   

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