Basil Pizza & Wine Bar | |
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Restaurant information | |
Street address | 270 Kingston Avenue |
City | Brooklyn |
County | Kings |
State | New York |
Postal/ZIP Code | 11213 |
Country | United States |
Coordinates | 40°40′13″N 73°56′32.5″W / 40.67028°N 73.942361°W |
Basil Pizza & Wine Bar is a restaurant in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.
Basil is credited with "ushering in the new era of fine kosher dining in the neighborhood, " so that by 2017 The Jewish Week described Crown Heights as "an eating destination."[1] The menu features a range of vegetarian and fish dishes, in addition to pizza baked in a wood-fired oven.[2][3]
Frank Bruni of The New York Times describes Basil, which opened in 2010 on the West Indian side of a neighborhood with a mixed population of Orthodox Jews, immigrants from the West Indies, that was beginning to attract hipsters and upscale purchasers for it fin de siecle row houses, as a "cross-cultural experiment, trying to promote better integration of, and communication between, groups in Crown Heights that haven’t always mingled much or seen eye to eye."[3][4][5][2]
Moshe Wendel was part of the team that opened Basil.[6] The Forward called Wendel, one of the "small band of chefs has led the way in kosher dining, with restaurants that rival their local non-kosher competition."[7]
References
- ↑ Levin, Chaim; Dreyfus, Hanna (9 March 2017). "Crown Heights Now Artisanal Kosher Haven". The Jewish Week. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
- 1 2 Firger, Jessica (26 August 2010). "Café Serves All, Lubavitch Style". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
- 1 2 Bruni, Frank (7 October 2010). "Keeping It Kosher". New York Times. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
- ↑ Feder, Shira (5 January 2018). "Kosher Pizza Goes Avant-Garde". The Forward. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
- ↑ Udasin, Sharon (5 March 2010). "The Rebbe's Rosé". The Jewish Week. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
- ↑ Blatter, Lucy (26 May 2019). "Chosen Chefs: Moshe Wendel of Brooklyn's Pardes". The Forward. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
- ↑ Furst, Devra (26 July 2011). "As Chefs Become More Observant, Kosher Menus Go Gourmet". The Forward. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
- ↑ Kilgannon, Corey (28 March 2017). "In Brooklyn's Pizza War, Modern Tastes Battle Ancient Law". New York Times. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
- ↑ Honig, Michelle (29 March 2017). "Kosher Pizza War Simmers On After Brooklyn Rabbis Rule". The Forward. Retrieved 26 May 2019.