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10 Downing St. New York, NY 10014

212-255-0300 

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  • New American, Soul Food
    Sun-Thu 11am-10pm, Fri-Sat 11am-12am
    $$$$
  • All Major Credit Cards
    Patio/Sidewalk Dining
    Breakfast, Dinner, Late Night, Lunch
  • Full bar
    Accepted
    Street
Description

Chef Jason Neroni's latest adventure is a staid Village bistro with wonderful views of Sixth Avenue and interesting art on the walls (plus a newly opened sidewalk seating area). Despite the eclectic menu, his interest in pork and Spanish food prevails. Baked feta is the best bar snack; striped bass the best fish (sided with oddball items like seckle pear, celeriac, and trumpet mushrooms); squid-ink agnolotti the best pasta; and pork confit with moustarda the best meat main (no surprise here). For dating couples, the roast chicken for two, deposited on a lively bread salad the way they do it in San Francisco at Zuni Café, is highly recommended.







  • 2009 | Best New American

    RobtS: The designation "New American" is absurd because it's really a catch-all for all sorts of creative food that lacks one particular ethnic influence. SarahDG: Seconded. RobtS: Where the rubber meets the road is in places designated as bistros. While Joseph Leonard is clearly a French bistro, the status of Watty & Meg is uncertain. It flaunts its regional borrowings--shrimp and grits, for example--but the bedrock of the menu is clearly French, like red wine reductions in... More »

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  • Tweaking Convention at 10 Downing

    Tweaking Convention at 10 Downing

    | Wed, April 01, 2009

    Let's begin with the most scrumptious dish on the menu: a free-range chicken for two ($43)—a pullet, really, the tender young flesh marshaled in sienna-skinned fragments across an oblong heap of arugula. At the first forkful, the arugula seems lik... More »

Dinner Menu
Greens & Vegetables
$13.00
Fresh Garden Vegetable Salad
herbs, aged sherry, olive oil
$16.00
Frisee Salad Spinach,
hard boiled egg, cherry tomato, black olives, blue cheese, smoked bacon
$15.00
Baby Beet Tart Goat Cheese
red onions, aged balsamic
Shares
3 For $18.00
5 For $28.00
Local & Imported Cheeses
6 For $18.00
12 For $36.00
Fresh West & East Coast Oysters
mignonette, cocktail sauce
Each $7.00
4 For $25.00
House-made Terrines & Pates
18 month aged serrano, pork pistachio terrine italian soppressata, duck rillette
Grains & Legumes
$9.00
Potato Leek Soup
roasted olive oil, leeks
$16.00
Sweet Red Shrimp & Cheddar Grits
garlic, parsley, fried leek
Tartare & Crudo
$17.00
Ahi Tuna Tartare
avocado, sesame oil
$15.00
Hand-cut Prime Beef Tartare
quail egg, pimento aioli
Our Signatures
$19.00
$22.00
Curry Spice & Coconut Pot Pie
vegetable or roasted chicken, kaffir lime
$17.00
Add Bacon Or Egg $19.00
Kobe & Shortrib Burger
caramelized onions, lettuce, choice of cheese
For 2 $44.00
Herb Roasted Whole Chicken
choice of two sides, allow 30-35 mins
Fish & Shellfish
$26.00
Salt-butter Poached Sweet Shrimp
asparagus, gnocchi, olives, truffles
$26.00
Pan Seared Salmon
cherry tomatoes, dill cream, on arborio rice.
$27.00
Pan Roasted Mahi Mahi
corn-potato "hash", piquillo peppers
Beef, Poultry, Pork
$25.00
Hudson Valley Chicken
yellow squash, eggplant, fingerlings, pistou
$28.00
Pennsylvania Crisp Pork Belly
green lentils, peaches, baby arugula
8oz $31.00
Ottomanelli Dry Aged Filet Mignon
grilled asparagus, basil mashed, red wine reduction.
Housemade Pasta
$19.00
Hand Rolled Potato Gnocchi
garlic, browned butter.
$15.00
Add Scallops And White Wine Sauce $25.00
Fresh Cut Angel Hair
mushrooms, peppers, squash
$17.00
Add Sweet Shrimp $27.00
Fresh Cut Fettucine Alfredo
aged parmigiano reggiano
Sides
$8.00
Charred Shisito Peppers
$8.00
Anson Mills Cheddar Grits
$9.00
Roasted Brussels Sprouts
smoked bacon
$6.00
Duck Fat Sage Fries
pepper aioli
Dessert
$10.00
Peanut Butter And Jelly
peanut butter mousse, chocolate ganache, grape-jelly sorbet
$10.00
Chocolate Cake "brioche"
chocolate sauce, salted caramel sauce, marmalade, strawberry whipped cream
$9.00
Cinnamon-sugar Doughnut Holes
seasonal marmalade, mocha sauce
$10.00
Seasonal Panacotta
$12.00
Sticky Toffee Pudding
dates, cream, warm toffee sauce
$10.00
Three Scoops
selection of ice cream or sorbet
3 For $20.00
Artisan Cheese Board
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