The Butterfly
Black Coffee
Highball with Michter’s Rye and Smoked Coke
Fried Chicken Brunch Basket – 3 Piece Bell & Evans Chicken, Coleslaw, Honey Butter, Biscuits
French Toast – Nutella with Bourbon Glazed Bananas
Undoubtedly the most casual of Michael White’s growing Restaurant Empire, Tribeca’s “The Butterfly” served as an impromptu stop while gallery hopping before dinner and although the original plan to sample a few cocktails and dessert quickly fell by the wayside when we were informed that the dessert menu is not offered during brunch it proved no difficulty for us to make do with what was available, cocktails, sweets, and savories included. Fashioned as a mid-century cocktail bar, long and narrow with reclaimed wood balanced by soft lighting and earthen colors, and featuring a soundtrack including everything from The Rolling Stones to The Silversun Pickups plus friendly service it would not take long to determine our order and with the restaurant largely empty as the team prepared for staff-meal drinks and plates arrived quickly, though we were encouraged to linger and actually did just that until the first patrons began to trickle in for supper. Personally opting only for coffee while my sister elected a Highball both of us were duly impressed by the extra layer added by the house-smoked cola and moving onward to the cuisine itself, while certainly not Italian both the juicy sage and rosemary tinged fried chicken and crisp-gives-way-to-custard French toast were superlative while the multi-layered biscuit with honey butter set a new standard for best in the city.
