The Smith

Nope, you’re not seeing double: Following the opening of Smith’s, Danny Abrams’ swank railroad-style joint in  Greenwich Village, comes The Smith, a industrial-style American brasserie in the East Village. “I think he’s really going after me,” cracks The Smith co-owner Jeffrey Lefcourt, who’s known Abrams for years—the two once considered a restaurant partnership. “I have a seafood restaurant on the Upper West Side, [Neptune Room], and five blocks away he opened Mermaid Inn,” he laughs. “I think he’s a great restaurateur.” The Smith delivers casual, affordable American fare like pork chops with apples and chipotle onions, and salmon with Brussels sprouts and bacon. (Prices hover at around $17, and there’s a $12 burger-and-beer special on Sunday nights.) But there are also a few global twists, like vegetable bibimbap and lamb schnitzel. “When we say ‘American brasserie,’ it is to us what a brasserie is to New Yorkers,” Lefcourt says. “There’s a European influence, an Asian influence. This is what New York is all about.” 

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