Former Momofuku partner Joaquin Baca hopes to make it on his own starting this month with the opening of Brooklyn Star in Williamsburg. In the latest issue, Rob Patronite and Robin Raisfeld analyze his penny-pinching start-up costs and use three words (Dr Pepper ribs) to entice us into wanting to see the rest of the southern-accented offerings. A sample menu is below; we’ll plug in the full version when we have it. Now, click through the slideshow to see his renovation of the onetime pizzeria.
Dinner
Menus subject to change upon opening.
Bread
Corn Bread
Buttermilk Biscuits
Hush Puppies
Small
Wedge Salad
Cucumber, Tomato Salad with Cornbread
Half Dozen BBQ Oysters
Half Dozen BBQ Little Neck clams
Summer Squash Casserole
Dr Pepper Ribs
Fried Green Tomatoes with Ranch Dressing
Pan Roasted Sweet Breads w/ Pickled watermelon and Mustard
Collard Greens with Ham Hock
Pig Foot and Hominy
Fried Pig Tails
Deviled Eggs
Big
Country Fried Steak with Mashed Potatoes and Greens
BBQ Catfish with Fried Cucumbers
Roasted Trout with Creamed Corn
Whole or Half Fried Sweet Tea Glazed Chicken, Spoonbread
Smothered Pork Chop, Scalloped Tomatoes and String Beans
Pan Roasted Skirt Steak, Twice Baked Potato and Baby Arugula
Fried Whole Branzino, Hush Puppies and Tomato, Cucumber Salad
Meatloaf, Collard Greens, Pot Licker, and Mashed Potatoes
Drinks
Coke/ Diet Coke
Boylan’s Ginger Ale and Root Beer
Coffee and Iced Tea (Sorry, no decaf coffee)
Pints and Pitchers Pabst Blue Ribbon
Brooklyn Brewery Lager
Hopf helle weisse
Anchor Steam
Schoenramer gold lager
Lone Star
Wine
33 Havemeyer St., nr. N. 7th St., Williamsburg, Brooklyn; 718-599-9899
