"If there's one thing worse than too much of a good thing, it's too little of it. That was the knock on Ha's Snack Bar, which opened last year to such instantaneous acclaim that word spread the proprietors were immediately looking for a larger second location. The Snack Bar was great, but with two dozen seats, most of them not especially comfortable at that, it could be a treat on the palate and a pain in the ass."
"The promised follow-up is here, and the crowds have again descended on Bistrot Ha - with the terminal t, as the French would have it. Less than 300 feet from its predecessor, Bistrot Ha is a more fully fledged restaurant with a proper dining room (45 seats to the Snack Bar's 24) and a proper kitchen (to the Snack Bar's induction burner)."
Bistrot Ha expands Ha's Snack Bar into a larger 45-seat bistrot with a full kitchen and more substantial bar less than 300 feet from the original. Ha and Sadie Mae Burns collaborate on the menu, baking, plating, and innovative desserts such as meringue-domed ice cream bombes. The kitchen now contains an oven for beef Wellingtons and a fryer for frites, enabling classic bistrot dishes. The menu retains Franco-Vietnamese flavors, including tamarind-butter escargots and vermicelli-studded pâté chaud. The dining room remains moodily lit with James Cherry's parchment-skin fixtures and offers a house martini with the drinker's choice of spirit.
#restaurant-expansion #franco-vietnamese-cuisine #bistrot-classics #dessert-meringue-ice-cream-bombes
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