Back Forty 190 Ave. B (@ 12th St.)
East Village
212.388.1990
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Back Forty:
It's an old cliché that success breeds success. But mega success? We’ll just have to wait until Bill Gates impregnates Oprah and see if that little genius mogul takes over the world or ends up with a bundle a day smack habit. For now Peter Hoffman, the talent behind SoHo's uber-trendy Savoy, makes his own run at mega success with his anthropomorphic procreation of Back Forty. Whether or not it’ll reach “Gatephry” success, who knows, but Hoffman certainly knows how to get the young and the well dressed into a restaurant (the attractive staff helps). This swank eatery would be better referred to as the Local Meeterie, given that everyone is cramming an elbow to get in. Traffic at the bar was six deep since day one. Save room for the tasty combos like Maine shrimp and bacon beignets and grass-fed beef burgers that bring out the comfort food-craving animal in everyone. Everything goes well with a Back Forty cocktail (a whiskey sour in disguise), though you'll have to fight the masses at the bar to get one. Open Mon-Thu. 6-11pm, Fri. 6pm-midnight, Sat. noon-3pm and 6pm-midnight, Sun. noon-3:30pm and 6-10pm.
I've lived in NY for almost all of my 35 years and have NEVER been greeted by such an arrogant pr!@k as the self stated "partner" Jeremy who was working as host. First he refused to add our party of four to the HOUR LONG waiting list (they don't take reservations) because only 2 of the 4 people were there. Now I appreciate that you can't seat us until our party is all present, but come on...you can't add me to an hour long waiting list until my whole party is there. OK...moving on to 15 minutes later, our party is all there, now he tells us of our now 45 minute wait and that that even though his bar is over crowded with no seating or even standing space for us to access a drink much less rest it somewhere, if we leave his bar for more than 5 minutes, he'll take us off the list. Not “if I call your table and you're not there I'll seat the next party.” If we leave his bar, he'll take us off the list. Apparently if we leave his bar for 20 or 30 minutes he's "taking a reservation" and he doesn't do that. This guys was shockingly rude in both demeanor and policy. I'm embarrassed for Peter Hoffman, whom I know from the neighborhood and have always thought highly of. I would never step foot in this restaurant again for fear of having to interact with Jeremy "the partner", the most obnoxious and arrogant restauranteer I've ever come face to face with. Wow, that was a bad enough experience to have me sitting here at midnight after a lovely dinner at a different neighborhood restaurant, still needing to blast Back Forty online.
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