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“Thistle Hill Tavern”

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

rians. In addition to the Shaved Greenmarket Salad and a roasted red beet salad with watercress and pistachios ($12), she offers vegetarians several entrée options. There’s a gratin of summer squashes with sweet and hot roasted peppers, calamata olives, pine nuts, ricotta, pecorino and basil, a recipe I’d like to get my hands on. And for vegans, she’s created a burger that she serves with all the flourishes you’d expect from one crafted from grass fed beef (which is also on the menu, $15): it’s tucked inside a potato roll with housemade pickles and ketchup and a side of salt and pepper fries ($13). Yum.

Don’t worry, she’s got plenty for omnivores too. There’s a grilled Hampshire porterhouse pork chop ($21) with roasted fingerling potatoes, escarole, capers, mustard seeds and fresh oregano, and a roasted leg of lamb with cracked wheat, feta, charred eggplant, and arugula dressed in a smoky tomato vinaigrette ($19).

Before I knew it, we were passing around a quickly diminishing dish of coffee and chocolate semifreddo (delicious and ideal for a hot summer night) and realizing it was way past our bedtime for our babies’ 6am wake up calls. It was almost 11 (!), quite a bit later than I’ve been out in probably a year. But the time had flown by. I imagine there was talk of our kids, of Tate’s new ability to run, of Nate’s long blond hair, of Jules’ infinite affection for being held upside down, but I can’t really recall what it is we talked about. I know I laughed until my face hurt. I know I felt a kinship I was so grateful to find. I know we polished off two bottles of Paumanok Rose, so I guess that’s a good sign. I know we didn’t have to get up from the table seventeen times a minute to run after Tate, to change a diaper, or to pick up a bottle or a toy that had been tossed on the floor. Oh, it was heaven.

Thistle Hill Tavern is located at 441 7th Avenue, corner of 15th Street, 347-599-1262.

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Posted: July 22, 2010

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