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3159 Coney Island Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11235

718-616-0494

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Critics'
Pick
Best Mackerel
Award Winner 2009

Cuisine(s): Ukranian

Hours: Daily 10am-10pm

Price: $$
Payment Types: cash

Features: Delivery, Takeout

Serving: Dinner, Lunch
Alcohol: None

Reservations: Accepted, Not Necessary

Parking: No Parking

Description

As indicated by the 10-foot-tall pot teetering on the roof, this cozy restaurant specializes in crock-baked Ukrainian specialties, including braised lamb shank, and forgoes the compulsory Casio charges and bottles of vodka frozen in blocks of ice.

2009 | Best Mackerel

Holy mackerel! Funny that, because of its newly acquired "sustainable" status, mackerel has become one of the most revered of fishes. We can remember when diners, encountering it in East Village Japanese restaurants for the first time, stuck out their tongues and hollered, "Yuck!" Now we're seeing the strongly flavored fish--which has oily flesh a color somewhere between brown and gray--tendered in all sorts of new contexts. We found it at Allen & Delancey slobbered with spiced... More »
2007 | Vladimir Putin's Last Meal

Maybe you thought Putin would demand a dish of poutine, the French-Canadian morass of french fries, curds, and gravy; but no, he'll be camped out at Café Glechik sampling the peasant fare his mother served him in his hometown of Leningrad. His final meal would begin with a steaming bowl of kulesh (a dilled barley soup), then continue with the excellent rabbit stew, or maybe-- to remind him of his KGB days in Ukraine--he'd gorge on the lamb-intensive Odessa stew. More »
2000 | Best Bunny

Brighton Beach's newcomer Cafe Glechik proffers a burnished-skin half bunny in a ceramic crock, braised in a vegetable cream sauce and heaped with crushed garlic, and wascally wabbit never gets better than this. More »

Crocked

By Robert Sietsema | Tue, September 12, 2000

Cafe Glechik goes out of its way to distinguish itself from the other Russian joints in Brighton Beach. There's no Casio, no attempt to lure you into a big splurge featuring bad caviar, free-flowing vodka, and endless courses of desiccated smoked ... More »

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Café Glechik

3159 Coney Island Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11235

718-616-0494

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2009 | Best Mackerel

2007 | Vladimir Putin's Last Meal

2000 | Best Bunny

Crocked

By Robert Sietsema | Tue, September 12, 2000

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