DBGB Kitchen & Bar

DBGB Kitchen and Bar is Chef Daniel Boulud's new lowdown downtown place where the French brasserie meets the American tavern. Come for the 14 varieties of house-made sausages from the Merguez to the Anglaise. There's also seasonal Lyonnais-inspired cooking alongside mouth-watering burgers and towering shellfish platters. Wash them down with great craft beers (22 on tap) and affordable table wines. For dessert dig into soul-soothing classics: filled crepes, hot souffles and ice cream sundaes laden with decadent sauces and toppings. The interiors take their cue from the Bowery's history as New York's industrial restaurant supply neighborhood. Floor to ceiling shelving stocked with the restaurant's own tools, tableware and dry goods overlook a partially open kitchen. In the bar, the writing is - quite literally - on the wall. Boulud's favorite culinary quotes fill the mirrors, providing food for thought to accompany a menu of bar bites.