Tygershark
“Now, the food:
Shrimp bao – the little fluffy bao buns perfectly encased sweet little shrimps with a creamy, but slightly spicy sauce.”
“And while we ended the evening with some soju and another cocktail at White Tiger, I'm glad we wound up having our actual meal at Tygershark.”
“We loved the dumplings, the grilled rice cake and especially the Soondubu.”
Tygershark
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Outdoor Seating: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Good for Working: Yes
PokéStop Nearby: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
3 reviews
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Popped in with the lady on a Friday night around 9pm and we couldn't have been more happy with our decision. About a 30 minute wait – but to be expected for a newer joint.
Sat at the bar and were endlessly entertained by our main man Carlos. He tends and is simply a hero. Nicest guy ever and good with the pour. We only ended up getting the crab fried rice and then dumplings – both on point. I had a delicious vodka martini and my companion was privy to Carlos's negroni-esque concoction which was also quite delicious. We hung out for a couple of hours and had a grand time. Some B-list celebs showed up to cap off the evening.
See Carlos – drink, smile, eat and repeat
This place is worth getting excited about.
I had been scoping out Tygershark pretty much since they painted a big blue fish on a piece of plywood covering the front of the store back in the spring. I love seafood and this part of town really doesn't offer much in the way of fish, so I was really looking forward to their opening. I signed up for their mailing list and waited…And then! I got an invitation to a preview dinner tonight, grabbed a friend, and got exactly what I'd hoped: delicious seafood and a very welcoming new restaurant.
We ordered three of four dishes off their tasting menu (they'll have more when they open), including the octopus (soooo tender! served in a spicy, almost bbq-y sauce with chewy rice cake, crab, grilled scallion, and fresh basil, $12), the "pho-zole" (a more subtle flavor with smokey broth, big thick noodles, clams in the shell, seasoned fish…can't remember what kind maybe monkfish?, fresh mint, fresh scallions, onions, $17), and a sort of sashimi bibimbap (rice ball with delicious crispiness on the bottom, with fresh fish, roe, spicy sauce, pea sprouts, onion, and herbs, which I think was also $12?).
We also had two drinks, both $12; one called "Charlie Don't Surf" that I would describe as spicy/savory orange soda with sesame oil over ice (my absolute favorite, and don't even like orange soda) and another sweet/earthy drink called "Bitches Brew" with fall flavors, almost like cold mulled cider, with persimmon, served in a gold-colored metal dish.
This food is forward thinking, in the way I've seen my favorite Bay Area restaurants push food in new, interesting directions. Their food is similar to Mission Chinese in that it takes familiar flavors and builds on them in new ways, but different in that it has a decidedly fresh taste, with all the fresh veggies and herbs and deliciously prepared fish.
The owner, Doug Hwang (who I do not know; this is not a review from a friend!), was super nice and welcoming. It was very clear that this is his baby and that he's put a lot of care into all parts of the restaurant, which has a warm & inviting feel. The ambiance sort of makes me think of a surf town in Japan.
Watch for their full opening!
A friend of mine just moved to Prospect Heights. He invited me over for a drink at Covenhoven, where he was talking about some of the recent additions to the neighborhood. He soon mentioned two tiger-related places, White Tiger and Tygershark, that had opened within a few weeks just a block apart.
"Both are good," he said. "But Tygershark is better." So when reservations fell through later that evening for an Italian place, I went with a friend over to the better of the two tigers. Tygershark has a very loose "surf shack" theme, which probably must have seemed very important to the owner and designer but in reality is just some fancy dressing around the front window. (I am sure there are better places to get wax in this city than the front of a restaurant.)
My friend recommended several dishes to try, but when arrived at 9 p.m. on a Saturday, the menu was full of crudely hand-drawn Xs. Five dishes on the not very long menu were no longer available. What at first seemed to be slightly aggravating was the sign of rapidly changing dishes and a commitment to serving fresh food to dinners.
Turns out it didn't matter, because what came out of the kitchen was some of the best food I've had in Brooklyn in months. The massive tiger prawns sat in a Thai sauce, pungent and spicy with each bite. The flavors on the menu incorporate the tastes of Asia (mostly Thailand and Korea) without being dogmatic about a particular arrangement or style. The cooking is very bold and very flavorful.
A bun we had earlier in the meal, a large soup my friend had, it was all fantastic. And while we ended the evening with some soju and another cocktail at White Tiger, I'm glad we wound up having our actual meal at Tygershark.