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If you are looking for a genuine American Traditional restaurant, then
better head for Prune on 54 East 1st Street in New York City. Prune is also
called an American Nouveau restaurant - but what does that mean exactly?
All diners at Prune know is that Prune chef Gabrielle Hamilton can create
dishes which basically are products of her grab-bag of multicultural,
multiethnic cooking influences. These dishes offer gastronomic satisfaction
in unpretentious, direct-to-the-point ways - if you are hungry, eat, eat,
eat. Her cooking is hard to pin down, but somehow diners at Prune just know
that the dishes represent true American-style cooking.
Some popular dishes at Prune are the Malpeque oysters, grilled lamb
sausages, your basic fried eggs served in tandem with a Monte Cristo and
red-currant jelly, and spaghetti carbonara. If you are looking for some
interesting beverages to soothe your parched throat, you can try their
Prune Juice version which is a combination of grapefruit, lime, orange, and
Meyer lemon juices (all freshly-squeezed after you order); or the Chicago
Matchbox product that is actually a merry mix of caperberries, pickled
vegetables, and some lemon vodka that Prune makes in-house. Prune offers a
full bar, so people who are always looking for new alcoholic beverages to
try may want to sample Prune offerings. Prune is considered an expensive restaurant (by New York City standards)
with prices of food ranging from $26 to $29. You may pay with your Visa,
MasterCard, or American Express cards. Perhaps Prune is justified in
charging high prices since it is also a multi-awarded restaurant. Some
awards it has garnered are: Best Brunch in 2002, Best Brunch with Parents
in 2004, Best Mid-Priced Burger in 2007, and also Best Lunch (also in
2007.) Not only that, but Prune made it to the List of 101 Best New York
Restaurants for 2006; the NYC Restaurant Picks for Lamb Lovers in 2007; and
The City's Best New Burgers (later on in 2007.) If you would like to see for yourself what all the hubbub about Prune is
about, then it is recommended that you make advance reservations for a
table before you head there. (Bear in mind, though, that Prune does not
permit reservations for Sunday night meals or weekend brunches.) Generally,
Prune serves lunch and brunch (with weekends being a hot time for Prune
brunches) from Mondays to Thursdays between 11:30 in the morning to 3:00 in
the afternoon; and is also open 6:00 pm to 11:00 pm on those days. On
Fridays, Prune can serve customers from 11:30 in the morning to 3:00 pm,
then again from 6:00 in the evening to midnight. You can head for Prune on
weekends starting Saturday at 10 am and lasting until 3:00 pm, and again
from 6:00 in the evening the same day ending at midnight. Sundays are an
equally busy time for Prune, which opens at 10 am and closes at 3:30 pm -
but do not worry, it re-opens in the afternoon at 5:00 pm and finally
closes shop at 10 Sunday night.
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