Brendan Sodikoff converted a nineteenth-century West Village carriage house into a supper club built on a single conviction: prime rib, done with absolute correctness, needs no reinvention. The room seats perhaps forty in deep banquettes, the lighting the colour of aged bourbon, the waitstaff dressed as though the decade never quite settled — somewhere between 1955 and last Thursday. The prime rib arrives on a silver cart, carved tableside, its exterior crusted with salt and herbs, its interior the precise shade of rose that separates a great roast from a competent one. Yorkshire pudding accompanies, as it must. The martinis are cold and correctly proportioned.
Location
West Village, New York
Insider Intel
The prime rib — it is the name, the purpose, and the point. Carved tableside from a silver cart. Yorkshire pudding as its essential companion. Creamed spinach and the baked potato, loaded without apology. A martini to begin. The banana split for dessert, if the spirit moves you.
Reserve well ahead — the intimate carriage house fills quickly and the coveted reservation has only intensified. Dinner for the full supper club experience. The room is built for date nights and the kind of evening where you dress up without being asked.
4 Charles Street, West Village. Christopher Street-Sheridan Square station (1 train), three-minute walk. Reservations required — book via their website. Prime rib approximately 70-85 dollars, sides 16-22 dollars. Cards accepted. Jacket suggested but not required. One of the hardest reservations in the West Village.