Faro
“Like his previous spot, Northeast Kingdom, Faro is focused on local and seasonal ingredients, in a useful and not corny way.”
“Expect filling pastas, porridges, and hearty root vegetables as sides.”
“Must try's: Cavatelli, squid ink, rigatoni, duck, sirloin, fire roasted beet and any special that chef Adey puts out there on a daily basis.”
Faro
Takes Reservations: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
8 reviews
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Beautiful restaurant and fresh ingredients, but I just can't give more than 2 stars to any restaurant that lacks sufficient vegetarian and vegan options on the menu. The menu offers a good amount of vegetables like broccoli rabe, cauliflower, and beets, but they are all mixed in with meat and/or cheese (usually meat). I'm disappointed in the trend that farm-to-table restaurants have found the need to have a very meat-centric menu and was happy that the chef was able to pull vegetables from various dishes and put them on a tasty pasta for me. The server was helpful but didn't seem overly excited to concoct a vegetable-based meal for me. I encourage them to be more creative with their menu and have vegetables front and center. Thanks!
I'm gonna keep this review short and sweet. Great food, good portions, great staff, cool space. The staff was extremely helpful and patient explaining the variety of pastas to us and recommended a great wine to pair with our shared selections. The space feels very "Brooklyn" which can go either way depending on your likes. We enjoyed it. We'd defiantly go back. The FOOD can't be beat. I recommend the Bucatini and the Wild Boar Ragu pasta.
Open a stunning, generous space with a big open kitchen in Bushwick that smells amazing & people will come. This place is what La Pecora Bianca wants to be, though can't be. Faro is the real deal. Lots of sourced food & multiple grained pasta.
Ate:
Beets w/ radish, pickled green strawberries w/ micro greens over lavender yogurt
Spacatelli w/ monkfish & pumpkin bits
Brussels sprouts in duck fat & Parmesan
Total: $46
The salad was superb- delicate & full flavored. I asked for the prep of the black ink pasta with rye spacatelli instead & they accommodated me- delish. Fine dining in Bushwick right near Jefferson St. Station.
Faro might be closer to a 3.5, but I'm also not super familiar with the Bushwick restaurant scene and how Faro stacks up. The space is beautiful, and the menu seems to be really well done. All the food was tasty, and I appreciated the slightly discounted prices to correspond with the cheaper rent. If it was closer to me, I think I'd add it into the rotation, and I'd definitely suggest it to anyone looking for a spot in that neighborhood (when they don't feel like Roberta's, that is).
The food was excellent. The bread was warm with a sprinkle of salt, homemade butter with buttermilk. The duck was to die for with fennel seeds adding a special flavor. The gnocchi wasn't what you expect but very good with a delicious Parmesan cheese cream and mushrooms. Nice meal!
Four and a Half.. The hype is legitimate, in fact, dare I say not even sufficient! Now although I admittedly only got to a small fraction of the establishments listed in the many "best of 2015" lists swirling around the NYC Zeitgeist as usual this time off year, I am hard pressed to think of another new place which I enjoyed so singularly and thoroughly, and couldn't wait to return to as much as this one. I could say with utmost confidence that this is my favorite new restaurant to open in the borough this year, and perhaps longer than that.
Perhaps due in large part to my Long Island roots, I am a sucker for all things pasta, and true to its name, this place treats the starch with the utmost reverence and showcases it in a myriad of ever changing shapes and flavors beautifully. The first time here I was instantly hooked by a delicious parley infused cavattelli tossed with a pork seamlessly blended beyond recognition with a delicious smokey and creamy fresh ricotta. I was back soon after with others, the more the better to sample the various rotating offerings with. Some of the other standout pastas wildly inventive, like said cavatelli, as well as a softer than usual bucatini served with an alpine cheese and pasteurized chicken (the only pasta I have seen continuously offered on every visit) and a rye pasta that seemed to be a homage to German spaetzle paired with braised beef and cartelized onions, and a thick rigatoni with an west indian inspired Goat ragu with kale and pistachios. Other pastas, while no less delicious were marvels of simplicity, like another rigatoni served with well cooked onions and pancetta, and a perfectly executed cacio e pepe that would surely past muster in whatever part of Italy the dish hails from. While I don't think I could ever come here and not order pasta, the non pasta offerings here have all proved to be uniformly excellent as well, including a inspired pairing that breathes new life into two all too ubiquitous mainstays of New American cooking, pork belly and cornbread, and a chicken cacciatore based around the juiciest chicken I can remember being served in quite some time.
The excellence of the food here is matched by the professionalism of the staff, and the impressive yet minimalist setting, in a loft space fashioned out of a former MOMA storage faculty that is both in keeping with the aesthetics of the surrounding neighborhood and symbolic of its inevitable progression towards full on grown-up status. Looking around the dining room, when not admiring the talented kitchen staff working in the open kitchen centered around the gorgeous wood burning oven, its impossible not to notice the wide range of age and um, "types " of patrons dining here, and to think that even a year or two ago it would be for the most party pretty unlikely to find them in these precincts, once reserved for the most hipster of hipsters. While Gentrification has no shortage of disturbing implications its hard to hate on a harbinger of it that is as excellent as Faro.
I think I died and went to hipster heaven. I mean pasta. But honestly all the well dressed bearded dudes are really cute. If you're into that.
Anyway.
Got pastured lamb tartar, candele with wild boar ragu and herb pistachio pesto, and rye spaccatelli with braised beef, caramelized onions, and Parmesan. There was wine and dessert, too, obviously, but pasta is the main star here. (Or is it the bearded hipsters?)
Would eat again.
I have to say, I really love this place. Yes, the portions are small, let's get that out of the way. But that's no need for a bad review. You are paying for high quality ingredients, phenomenal (and I mean phenomenal food), and a clean meal that isn't covered in melting greasy cheese and oil and useless carbs.
The ambiance is great. It's casual and laid back, but still romantic and intimate for a date. It's a pretty big space with ample seating, but you're not on top of your neighbors, which is nice. It's not too loud too because they have huge ceilings and aren't blasting any stupid music.
The kitchen is totally open, so you can see everything being cooked and the passionate chefs at work. The menu is small, but I found myself having trouble deciding between everything. The service was great. Attentive and sweet when you needed it, but left you alone to enjoy your meal and your company. My boyfriend had a lamb pasta dish which was amazing. I couldn't stop picking off of his. I had this amazing chicken confit and chili pasta dish with wilted basil that was probably the best thing I've eaten in a long time.
I will definitely be back. I never wanted to stop eating that pasta.