YORK TRAVEL
HEART OUT Words By: Ella Walker
n Red Rooster, www.redroosterharlem. com; mains from 25 USD (about £20); reservations and walk-ins available
FAMILY STYLE Don’t like sharing? Family style - where portions are made for divvying out amongst your party - might not be for you, but it’s only a matter of time before egalitarian scoffing becomes a ‘thing’ in British restaurants. On the edge of Madison Square Park, away from the hordes that queue for ShakeShack burgers in the middle of the leafy space, is the cosily understated Black Barn. The mentality here is one of farm-to-table, with little faffing in between - and the portions are absolutely colossal.
n Harold’s Meat + Three, haroldsmeatandthree.com; mains from 18 USD (about £14); walk-ins only
n ATRIO, www.conradnewyork.com; mains from 22 USD (about £18); reserve ahead
We feast on platters of barbecued beef ribs, each one as wide and thick as a hardback book, foraged mushrooms on chunks of toast and a bubbling rum and butterscotch bread pudding that pads out my stomach lining, and presumably my arteries. It’s hearty, homely fare that makes you feel well fed and well loved, much like at ATRIO, at the downtown hotel Conrad New York, where American chef Gerron Douglas, a former sous chef at the Waldorf Astoria NY, serves hunks of halibut on a mattress of lentils, alongside vats of spaghetti Bolognese, because, he says, nothing “makes you feel at home like spaghetti”. He has a point. n Black Barn, blackbarnrestaurant.com; mains from 19 USD (about £15); reserve ahead
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