{"id":367337,"date":"2026-10-07T23:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T23:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/367337\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T23:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T23:38:15","slug":"the-chef-at-cafe-charmant-is-one-to-watch-in-the-west-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/367337\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chef at Cafe Charmant Is One to Watch in the West Village"},"content":{"rendered":"

I visited Cafe Charmant<\/a> during its second week or so open, and here\u2019s the short version: I really like the cooking.<\/p>\n

The new West Village French brasserie comes from Eugene Remm, Tilman Fertitta, and Catch Hospitality Group, which has been on an opening tear as of late with the Corner Store<\/a>, the Eighty Six<\/a>, and Or\u2019esh<\/a>. Of those, Cafe Charmant may be the one I\u2019m most inclined to become a regular.<\/p>\n

The Rockwell-designed room is handsome without feeling like a theme-park version of a French restaurant. And the crowd is a little more sport-coat, guy-named-Chaz than my preferred scene. But the food makes me want to go back<\/p>\n

Chef Jake Tyler Brodsky<\/a> worked under the late James Kent<\/a> during his Eleven Madison Park years and spent the past seven years cooking at Palm Heights<\/a> in the Cayman Islands. That experience shows up in a few tropical ingredients and Caribbean touches woven into the brasserie menu.<\/p>\n

Bar manager Sophie McGale\u2019s cucumber sour was my favorite of the drinks I tried, served in a glass like an art project, with cucumbers arranged in a page inside the glass. The garibaldi was perfectly pink, and a Rob Roy was served with a small carafe surrounded by pebble ice.<\/p>\n

Dinner with someone who cares as much about the food as the room; drinks and something to eat at the bar, particularly the tuna Charmant.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss the chocolate mousse, scooped out of a giant bowl and served with a trio of add-ons: chocolate crunch, peanut butter cups, and malted milk balls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I visited Cafe Charmant during its second week or so open, and here\u2019s the short version: I really…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[17863,75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-367337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-dining-reports","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}