Bar Americain

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Bar Americain Review

Celeb chef Bobby Flay's largest Manhattan restaurant is the soaring Bar Americain. The 200-seat two-story space looks like a dining room on a luxury liner (complete with a gift shop: you can purchase his many cookbooks in the front). This is not food for the faint-of-heart: Flay piles on the butter, cream, and endless varieties of bacon. Southern-inflected brasserie fare includes gold corn Johnnycakes with barbecued pulled pork and cranberry butter, smoked chicken with hatch-green-chili spoon bread and black-pepper vinegar sauce, and roasted duck breast surrounded by dirty wild rice with bourbon-soaked pecans. Slightly naughtier are the éclairs piped with whiskey-infused pastry cream and burnished with a burnt-sugar glaze. Brunch, featuring dishes like biscuits and cream gravy with sausage and scrambled eggs, is delicious.