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Prime Meats
It may be superficial but when it comes to eating out, for me the room is as important as the food. Prime Meats certainly has a definite look, kind of a cross between Deadwood, and the fantasy of a working man’s bar in Brooklyn circa 1900.
I grew up in many bars as a child,(another post on another type of blog) and I am very attuned to the atmosphere of such places. Maybe that is why Prime Meats leaves me a little cold. The two times there I have had no complaints about the food or the service. However the staff tend dangerously close to acting like extras in ’Once Upon A Time In America’.
I have no doubt that this restaurant will be well reviewed and successful and I love the aesthetic of the owners. For me I prefer the charm and chaos of Vinegar Hill House which does take me back to 1900, but to a less dour version of the time, with organ pipes behind the bar, next the to the sadly doomed Admiral’s row and the Navy yard.
The dichotomy is striking outside of Vinegar Hill. At the same time that a trend of turn of the century American Victorian bar fashion is rising in Brooklyn, a truly historic row of Second Empire federal residences will soon be razed for a Pathmark to complement the urban blight of the navy yard projects.
As if there were no other tracts available in the neighborhood, the US Army Corp of Engineers is turning the land over to the city for development.
After cocktails at Vinegar Hill, well worth a walk down the Belgian block streets past the ghostly 19th century Officer’s Quarter’s shells to the Navy Yard.
Bloomberg’s heritage of rapid development will be considered for years to come.
Music to eat and read by featuring two icons; from the past and future.
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