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Sauvage, From the Maison Premiere Team, Debuts in Greenpoint

Plymouth Rock pot-au-feu with chicken-skin schmaltz toast.
Plymouth Rock pot-au-feu with chicken-skin schmaltz toast. Photo: Melissa Hom

Fresh off their James Beard Foundation win for Outstanding Bar Program, Maison Premiere’s Joshua Boissy, Krystof Zizka, and chef Lisa Giffen have opened their much-anticipated second project — a full-blown restaurant in Greenpoint, named Sauvage.

While it’s only open for dinner at the moment, Sauvage will soon become an all-day restaurant, with breakfast and lunch service, as well as a takeout window for coffee and pastries. For now, Giffen’s menu leans a bit French: a leek terrine with clams and pink peppercorn, pot-au-feu (beef stew) with chicken skin and schmaltz toast, and stuffed arctic char, for two, with absinthe mignonette and beef-fat potatoes.

Though this is less of a bar than Maison, booze is still a focal point, and bar director Will Elliott’s menu includes more than 200 “under-the-radar and small-batch” spirits. Impressively, he’s using six different forms of hand-chiseled ice in the cocktails. Natural, biodynamic wines are prominent, too.

Boissy is meticulous about design, and with Urban Aesthetics, the idea of wild, natural surroundings informed the space. Look closely to see vintage embossed chairs, hand-blown-glass chandeliers, and a French walnut bar.

Carrot carpaccio with buckwheat and carrot top gremolata.
Carrot carpaccio with buckwheat and carrot top gremolata. Photo: Melissa Hom
Spring peas with sweet onion and favas.
Spring peas with sweet onion and favas. Photo: Melissa Hom
Ricotta dumplings with spring onion and barley consommé.
Ricotta dumplings with spring onion and barley consommé. Photo: Melissa Hom
Pike with mountain vegetables and sour-beer sabayon.
Pike with mountain vegetables and sour-beer sabayon. Photo: Melissa Hom
The space seats 68.
The space seats 68. Photo: Melissa Hom
McCarren Park is super close.
McCarren Park is super close. Photo: Melissa Hom
Pastis cobbler with ArGala Pastis, cherry, quina, and chamomile.
Pastis cobbler with ArGala Pastis, cherry, quina, and chamomile. Photo: Melissa Hom
Sloe Moon's Rose with Reisetbauer Sloe, framboise, lime, Edinburgh gin, and bitters.
Sloe Moon’s Rose with Reisetbauer Sloe, framboise, lime, Edinburgh gin, and bitters. Photo: Melissa Hom
Chef Giffen.
Chef Giffen. Photo: Melissa Hom

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Sauvage, 905 Lorimer St., 718-486-6816

Sauvage Debuts in Greenpoint