Neal Fraser’s Holiday Wish List:
1. Open Redbird.
2. Feed you rabbitchetta.
3. Serve draft cocktails under an open sky.
4. No, really. To open Redbird.
Holiday miracles do come true.
Here’s Redbird, a gloriously attractive new restaurant from Neal and Amy Knoll Fraser (Grace, BLD) in Saint Vibiana’s rectory—it’s now taking reservations for its soft-opening tomorrow.
And once you get behind its arresting iron gates, here’s how you’ll use it:
Drinks: Sit at the round marble bar. The half inside the modern-furniture-filled lounge. Order one of Julian Cox’s carbonated cocktails on tap or one of the long-lost drinks like the KCB, with gin, apricot and cumin-spiced kümmel. Just... bask. It’s here. It’s finally here. (See the slideshow.)
Dinner dates in the courtyard: It’s under a retractable roof with views of the soaring cathedral tower—and there’s the other half of that magnificent bar. Reasons to keep looking down, though, include Thai Dungeness crab soup, potato-crusted pork shank and that rabbitchetta. It’s basically rabbit porchetta.
Private dinners in the Nest: That’s upstairs, and it looks like a swanky apartment. Marble kitchen countertop, butcher-block table and... miniature cameras in the ceiling, in case you want to record whatever goes down.
For friends who can’t act naturally without those around.
1. Open Redbird.
2. Feed you rabbitchetta.
3. Serve draft cocktails under an open sky.
4. No, really. To open Redbird.
Holiday miracles do come true.
Here’s Redbird, a gloriously attractive new restaurant from Neal and Amy Knoll Fraser (Grace, BLD) in Saint Vibiana’s rectory—it’s now taking reservations for its soft-opening tomorrow.
And once you get behind its arresting iron gates, here’s how you’ll use it:
Drinks: Sit at the round marble bar. The half inside the modern-furniture-filled lounge. Order one of Julian Cox’s carbonated cocktails on tap or one of the long-lost drinks like the KCB, with gin, apricot and cumin-spiced kümmel. Just... bask. It’s here. It’s finally here. (See the slideshow.)
Dinner dates in the courtyard: It’s under a retractable roof with views of the soaring cathedral tower—and there’s the other half of that magnificent bar. Reasons to keep looking down, though, include Thai Dungeness crab soup, potato-crusted pork shank and that rabbitchetta. It’s basically rabbit porchetta.
Private dinners in the Nest: That’s upstairs, and it looks like a swanky apartment. Marble kitchen countertop, butcher-block table and... miniature cameras in the ceiling, in case you want to record whatever goes down.
For friends who can’t act naturally without those around.
