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What to Eat at French Louie, the Buttermilk Channel Team’s New Boerum Hill Restaurant

Get ready to channel your inner French-Canadian lumberjack.
Get ready to channel your inner French-Canadian lumberjack. Photo: Melissa Hom

Doug Crowell and chef Ryan Angulo, the team behind Buttermilk Channel, have just opened a 50-seat restaurant on Atlantic Avenue in Boerum Hill. The food’s French-American, of course, and the moniker is on loan from the tale of the 19th-century hermit, guide, and trapper of the same name. The menu includes and a foie-and-country-ham terrine, flounder Grenobloise, smoked sardines, and three different steak-frites options — the most expensive of which is a 28-day dry-aged specimen, which comes in at a reasonable $36.

Pastry chef Erica Ohrling, an alum of Vinegar Hill House, will oversee desserts like profiteroles with fennel-pollen ice cream (veggie dessert alert!) and a pineapple-tarte tatin. Designer Joseph Foglia decked the dining room out with a hand-painted mural of an Adirondack mountain landscape and a wood-paneled bar. There’s also a tree-canopied garden space that seats 40.

The restaurant is open for dinner now; expect breakfast, lunch, and brunch service soon — complete with Counter Culture coffee and Bien Cuit pastries.

Point Judith flouder with blood-orange Grenobloise, brioche croutons, and roasted cauliflower.Photo: Melissa Hom

Buckwheat pappardelle, oxtail ragout, broccoli rabe, and cured egg.Photo: Melissa Hom

Brussels sprouts almondine.Photo: Melissa Hom

Kabocha squash with heirloom bean stew and Kaffir lime pistou.Photo: Melissa Hom

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French Louie, 320 Atlantic Ave., 718-935-1200

What to Eat at French Louie, the Buttermilk Channel Team’s New Boerum Hill