Heavy Woods
“do the chicken biscuit, or the pork+crab po'boy; do any of the sides, particularly the red beans+rice.”
“Tchoup shop set up shop (heh) inside Heavy Woods and that was the reason for our visit.”
“We hit the Bloody Mary's pretty hard, and Heavy Woods knows how to mix em.”
Heavy Woods
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Happy Hour: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
8 reviews
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I'm surprised I haven't written a review for HW. Although it's been some time since I've visited, I can say with utmost certainty that my opinion hasn't changed. The staff is great and the drinks are well balanced. Depending on what time of the day/week you swing by, it can get a little hectic, but since they've opened up the back room I'm sure that the traffic jam situation has died down.
The only reason I'm not a regular here is because it's quite out of the way from where I live in BK and where I work in Manhattan (alas, like so many wondrous things in the 'Wick). However, if I'm anywhere within a half mile radius of this spot, I usually try to convince any companions to tag along, and with good reason.
the food is rich/heavy (no uh, pun intended?) but if you're boozin' hard, you'll probably be thankful for something substantial so soak up all that alcohol.
REVISED REVIEW:
I came here for breakfast / lunch this past Saturday morning with a friend who absolutely swears by this place and raves how good it is here.
Straight to the point, we walked in was greeted and seated right away.
We ordered:
– Crispy Chicken Biscuit
– Crawfish Mac & Cheese
– Crabby Jacques
He was right, everything was beyond deliciously good.
With that being said, 4 stars for this place. It would have been a 5 star for me. However due to our encounter months back. When he took me here and we were greeted w/ a "hi seat yourself" and the waitress was gone like the wind. Totally not acceptable. (I'm still not over that)
Maybe, my next encounter. I'll get over it
I came here a few weeks ago for brunch. It doesn't really like a brunch place, as it really just looks like a bar in the harsh light of day. But once you get past what this place should be during the day (probably just closed), you can appreciate it for what it is.
This is good, heavy, morning after a heavy night of drinking kind of food. Biscuits. Pork belly. Gravy. Eggs. Yes. The cocktails are a little pricey, but if you're coming here with the right intentions, alcohol is probably the last thing you want anyway.
Another solid meal at Heavy Woods.
Had the BBQ shrimp. Came with a side of warm baked bread. Great for dipping. Filling (granted it's mostly a fake full because of the bread, but nevertheless).
Sauce was flavorful. It was difficult to eat though as the shrimp come head-on and the sauce is sticky so you have to put up with that.
Chicken biscuit is always a crowd pleaser.
We also both had the Duck-Okra Gumbo. At $6 a bowl it's at the top of the mark as far as price, though was deep brown, hot and flavorful.
The biscuit was amazing! The crawfish mac and cheese was really good but I wasn't a fan of the pork po boy. Margarita was standard and not special at all, the Green Kiwi would make a great brunch cocktail but was good, not great.
We were in the area and looking for a place to have a quick dinner on Friday night so we stopped here as the menu looked good.
We walked in and helped ourselves to seats at the bar. The place has in interesting look. The seating was an eclectic collection.
As for food, we ordered off of the daily special menu. I had the watermelon feta salad and ordered a biscuit on the side. He had BBQ Cajun shrimp dish. As for the salad, it was simply the most amazing, tastiest salad I have ever had! What ever slightly spicy delicious dressing they used for this dish, it made me want to lick the plate. The biscuit was slightly over baked but it was still quite good. As for his shrimp BBQ, the taste was spectacular. The only thing we didn't like is that the shrimp came completely in it's shell…legs and all. The dish was really saucy and it was hard to get the meat out of the shell as we were afraid the red sauce would splatter on our clothing. We didn't really feel like working for our food and using our hands to separate the shell. We left quite a few shrimps for this reason.
For the service, we sat at the bar so not much to comment on. Someone was available when we needed something.
The bathroom grossed me out. It was covered wall to wall in graffiti and grime and no mirror. Would be nice to get a cheap mirror or something from IKEA as us women like to check ourselves out before departing a restaurant.
I wouldn't be totally opposed to coming back if ever in the area again.
I was so confused when I found this place on Yelp. I saw two listings (this and Tchoup Soup) with the same address and both had very similar menus with the exception of 1 or 2 dishes. I finally pieced the puzzle together and realized Tchoup Soup is the Creole food featured at the Heavy Woods bar. Why two yelp accounts though? You get free gumbo with check-in at Tchoup Soup but not Heavy Woods. Weird.
Nonetheless, we headed over to Heavy Woods for dinner the other night and I was incredibly disappointed. I walked in and stood at the entrance for a solid 2 minutes, which is a long time when you're just standing there. No one acknowledged me. There was no waitress or waiter in sight and only 1 bartender manning the bar. I go up to the bartender and she tells me to sit wherever. I head to the back where it says "Lounge" to get away from the noise. There was a couple already seated back there so I was glad to know we wouldn't be ignored.
I sat for another 5 minutes while I wait for my boyfriend to arrive then I see a girl walk by so I ask her for 2 menus. She brings them over, then while I'm using the restroom (which is gritty and filthy) she takes away one menu. Maybe she needed it but when my boyfriend arrived she never gave us another. It's a short menu anyway, so ended up deciding on cracklin's to start and the chicken biscuit and pork po' boy for our main. I tried the Kiwi Green cocktail which was a decent summery drink.
I'm going to side track here and say we just got back from NOLA the day before so we were riding off the vacation high and was craving more creole food.
Cracklin: Crazy small serving, but who should have too much of this anyway, right? My main issue with this dish was how greasy the pork belly was. It was like they let it sit in the fryer for 2 minutes too long. Every bite you took grease would pour into your mouth. It was soo unappetizing. I had to damp it into a napkin before taking another bite.
Chicken Biscuit: While the chicken had good flavor, this just didn't do it for me. The biscuit to chicken ratio was off, with almost no biscuit. The dish was too simple, it came with nothing, not even garnish. There were 3 highlighted ingredients, chicken, biscuit, jam, which just left a lot to be desired.
Pork Po' Boy: So dry it's crazy. Granted I asked for no mayo, but the slaw and the pork should've been the juicy ingredients. The sandwich had an overwhelming amount of bread which made it even drier (opposite to the chicken biscuit). If they had added more slaw and maybe had juicer pork this wouldn't have been too bad.
Service was blah, our waitress was mainly out front and barely checked on us. I really wanted to like this place since it has good reviews but it seems like the chef just handed over the menu to inexperienced line cooks and let them butcher it up.
I'd rather head over to Montana's 3 blocks away.
A long time ago I gave this place 3 stars, stating that the food was amazing, but the service was terrible. As the service got better, I deleted that. But it has only this year gotten good enough to warrant a 5 star rating. Johanna is a ridiculously good waitress. You just don't expect people to be that agreeable and efficient in Bushwick. (Let's face it, Bushwick has shitty service overall.)
The food here is still amazing, even if they took the BBQ Shrimp all the menu (cry). The bartenders are pretty damned good, a great step up from the ones they had when they opened. (They've always had one or two good server bartenders, but now it is across the board.
The new room in back is also super nice.