6/23/2023 0 Comments Ardyn hattip![]() There are links to many new military songbooks & hash house harrier songbooks. Nevertheless, if all the world’s a stage, the food may need to revise its next act to become a neighborhood go-to with real longevity. Update: After a three year hiatus, we have started to add additional items to the collection. On a recent visit, getting people through the door seemed like a nonissue. Naturally, Ardyn can fit more party-buff slots. Noctis grants himself a total of 3 framed buffs + 2 generic ones, while Ardyn grants himself only 2 framed buffs max but has 1 unique effect icon. Still, the best dish was the buttery New Jersey scallops ($27), served with sunchokes, corn and maitake mushrooms. Noctis needs his LD buff Bonds of Amity/Bonds with Close Friends active (which grants 80 Initial BRV Up and BRV regen based on that exact value). Overall, the main courses could benefit from more plant-based options, especially given Ardyn’s branding built around greenery. While first courses flail, the Spanish octopus ($26) with chorizo and white beans is worth trying for one thing, the tentacles are moist without being gummy with some balanced heat from the meat. It’s unclear whether the menu hopes to innovate the fine-dining format, which, much like the play, satirizes the pastoral while delivering on those same conventions. It also doesn’t help that the cuisine is billed as “seasonal,” a farm-to-table cuisine that, however lovingly made, does not typically give a restaurant an identity. Co-owners and chefs Adam Bordonaro and Ryan Lory didn’t cut their teeth at trendy restaurants but instead pull their experience from Fig & Olive and Charlie Palmer. The press has perhaps unfairly overlooked the opening of Ardyn. An heirloom-tomato salad ($16) needed salt. The stone-fruit salad ($17) was pleasant but the purée of vanilla and sunchokes was muted. An appetizer features a lonely but delicious, ricotta-stuffed fried squash blossom ($16), surrounded by rolled zucchini you might find at a summer picnic spread. Everything is plated elegantly, with brushstrokes of sauce and precisely placed garnishes. With its low ceilings and dark-green walls, the space felt more cavernous than the Forest of Arden in Shakespeare’s As You Like It, but we wanted to give it a chance. We were drawn in by this new Greenwich Village restaurant’s romantic aura. Ardyn appeared to be a hopeful turn for a tumultuous stretch of 8th Street plagued by open storefronts. ![]()
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