Metzger Bar & Butchery
801 N. 23rd St. (Cedar St.) 
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Dinner Tues.-Sun., Brunch Sun.Features
- Dress code: Casual
- Full bar
- Reservations suggested
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: They say you can tell a lot about a restaurant by its restrooms. At Metzger Bar & Butchery, the requisite “All employees must wash hands” sign also reads, “Bitte hände waschen.” Still, German is more a point of reference than theme park cliché at this über-cool hipster eatery with a near-austere aesthetic (only nine wood-topped tables, industrial-looking chairs and a sterile, white-tiled bar) devoted to sausage and schnitzel. Its trio of founders, with sturdy backgrounds in butchering, fish mongering, cooking and wine sales, are as much artisans as restaurateurs. They offer a small charcuterie retail case up front (open select evenings) and a menu where every dish is a complex work, be it juniper-smoked duck breast with roasted cherries, grilled sweet onion, freekeh and anise; scallops with broccoli, spigarello, pickled raisins, lemon aïoli and speck; or beer-brined pork chop with wild mushrooms, spätzle and frisée. A meat-and-cheese board could be a Flegel still life. Thoughtful wines and beers veer to the Germanic, but try one of the innovative cocktails, and, come dessert, you won’t go wrong with a Deutschland delight like pineapple kuchen. |
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