Clover Hill
Permanently Closed
Seafood-forward tasting menu; Michelin-starred, Black-owned Brooklyn Heights gem
Seafood-forward tasting menu; Michelin-starred, Black-owned Brooklyn Heights gem
"A Michelin-starred restaurant that opened in 2019 and served as an early high-caliber sign of the neighborhood’s potential to support standout, chef-driven dining." - Andrea Strong
"Under new chef Sam Rogers, one-star Clover Hill features a tasting menu with dishes like sunchokes and prawns; Boston mackerel; and Cavendish Farm quail that starts at $245." - Eater Staff
"Squirreled away on a quiet street in Brooklyn Heights, this intimate restaurant is a charming box of elegance and comfort. Under the leadership of Chef Sam Rogers, this tiny but mighty kitchen now enters a new chapter. He and his team are a focused bunch, working in perfect sync to deliver an abundance of courses that draw inspiration from Latin America. Little tarts stacked with poblano peppers and guanciale give way to a single boiled potato coated in a Huancaína-inspired sauce flecked with caviar. Find spice and smoke deployed across a range of local fish and American wagyu, with one highlight being a grilled, dry-aged sirloin paired with a stunning cabbage puree. Service matches the setting, quiet and calm in all the right ways." - Michelin Inspector
"One MICHELIN Star Clover Hill—one of Brooklyn’s most charming restaurants that’s quietly been plating some very high-level French-rooted, seasonal plates for the last two years—welcomed new executive chef and partner Sam Rogers, who most recently served as executive sous chef of Tribeca’s One White Street. This transition follows the darling restaurant’s loss of its former chef Charlie Mitchell (now leading FiDi’s fine dining Saga), who put the tiny dining room on the map, earning this year’s James Beard Award for New York’s Best Chef, and snagging a Michelin Star along the way. But now under Rogers’ purview, Clover Hill changes course with a fresh culinary perspective. In place of that dialed-in French-rooted cooking, Rogers honors cuisines of Latin America where he grew up via dishes like a Camembert cheese and persimmon-filled Brazilian cuñape (an airy dough puff made from tapioca); and unctuous lengua, grilled American wagyu tongue with purple and white hominy-polenta." - Kat Odell
"Clover Hill is the Brooklyn Heights de facto destination fine dining spot that can go toe-to-toe with Manhattan restaurants of a similar tier and its former chef was a winner of last year’s James Beard Awards. The tiny, but intimate dining room, recently named a new chef: Sam Rogers, who comes by way of One White Street in Tribeca." - Eater Staff
