I Cavallini, from The Four Horsemen, Opens New Brooklyn Restaurant | Eater NY
"Opening in Williamsburg at 284 Grand Street (between Havemeyer and Roebling streets) on Wednesday, July 16, the new restaurant is larger than the team's older sibling across the street, with 64 seats (tables, bar, and counter) and a bigger kitchen. The dinner menu features in-house-made pastas, including the bucatini with tomatoes and ricotta salata ($30) and the gnocchi sardi with shrimp, beans, and herb butter ($32). Other dishes include the fried eel toast with pine nuts and golden raisins ($24); roasted golden chicken with garlic and grilled hearts ($49); and the olive oil cake with berries ($18). Drinks include an all-Italian wine list with more than 100 bottles and a new cocktail program for the team, many with amaro, such as the Shakerato Rickey with amaro, lime, and soda ($18); the Pomozoni with Italian gin, doladira, lemon, tomatoes, and salt ($19); the Safe Harbor with a dry gin, fino, coconut, cucumber, absinthe and soda ($18); and the after-dinner Dolce Amaro Fizz with amaro noveis, hazelnut, coffee liqueur, egg yolk, cream, and prosecco ($21), plus beers, nonalcoholic options, and coffee. Co-partners are executive chef Nick Curtola (who also oversees the kitchen of the team's older sibling across the street), managing director Amanda McMillan, James Murphy, Christina Topsoe, Randy Moon, and Stacy Fisher (who is the wife of the late partner Justin Chearno). The rest of the team includes wine director Flo Barth (who worked with Chearno at the team's older sibling), bar director Jojo Colona (who worked at Attaboy), general manager Kendra Busby, and sous chefs Jonathan Vogt and Max Baez. Reservations can be placed online, but there is room for walk-ins — good luck to anyone trying their luck at this on opening week!" - Nadia Chaudhury
