Café Mars
Restaurant · Gowanus
272 3rd Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11215
Highlights
Inventive Italian dishes, playful decor, and delightful, attentive service
Inventive Italian dishes, playful decor, and delightful, attentive service
"Delightful service with a personal touch, offering a carefree and unapologetic menu concept, where guests choose their own glassware and receive complimentary bubbly or kombucha." - MICHELIN Guide
"Housed in what used to be a pasta factory, the maximalist Cafe Mars is decked out with custom chairs with neon pink squiggly legs, and accents like a three-foot-tall pepper mill. Dishes are equally over the top, with some elements referencing Italian Itameshi cuisine. There’s Parmesan-cured fluke with “crazy water,” and a steak pizzaiolo with “penne fries” and tomatoes, and for dessert black olive marble cake." - Eater Staff
"A square of cake that looks like a typical marbled brownie, but as this kitchen excels at, the expectation is always flipped in some way. The lighter cake was a sweet olive oil pound cake batter while the darker was a black olive cake, which was more salty than sweet. It was finished with amaretto-soaked cherries and whipped cream. It was creative, and it came together well." - MICHELIN Guide
"Cafe Mars, the futuristic Italian restaurant that opened in May in Gowanus from alums of Wd~50 and Aska, is hosting a Feast of the Seven Fishes. While the restaurant is not open on Christmas Eve and Day, it will host the dinner on Friday, December 22, and Saturday, December 23. Think: fried calamari with sweet potato, endive salad with caviar vinaigrette, and oysters with tomato relish. The full menu is available online and can be ordered a la carte or as a set menu; reservations are up." - Emma Orlow
"A staff member, Madalyn Summers, received Michelin's Outstanding Service award in 2023, highlighting the restaurant's service strengths." - BySam Stone
