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Sometimes you want to step inside a place and feel like you're somewhere else—but not anywhere too strange. Somewhere like...Belgium.
Opening tomorrow, Resto is your one-way ticket to a neighborhood brasserie in Brussels. Enter owner
Christian Pappanicholas's (ex-manager of 'inteca and Otto), who knows a thing or two about
atmosphere—cozy, oak-heavy establishment and head to the marble-topped bar,
where you'll have access to seven Belgian beers on tap (like Delirium, Grotten Brown) and 55 more in
bottles. Not to be too beer-centric, there are also 60 wines offered from Europe, and even Spa Belgian
water. Cuisine-wise, chef Ryan Skeen (Cafe Boulud) will serve both Belgian mainstays like mussels and fries,
plus fresh pork, lamb and duck sausage that's ground daily in-house.
And for an up-close look at that hanging sausage, you can snag a spot at the four-person marble table inside
the kitchen. As cooks buzz about, Skeen will pair wines with a tasting menu that's always changing. If you
ask nicely, he might even whip you up some hefty Liege waffles.
Somehow, we always knew we liked the Belgians.
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