* Vutera
ADDRESS: 345 Grand Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211
(Between Marcy Street and Havemeyer Street)
PHONE: 718.599.0069
HOURS: 6pm-midnight, daily
Wine Bar now open downstairs with Full Menu (pdf) available from 6pm-2am
CARDS: Discover, MasterCard, Visa
MAP: Click Here
SUBWAY: L at Lorimer; G at Metropolitan or J, M, Z at Marcy Ave.
WEBSITE: www.liveatrose.com
MYSPACE: Click Here
GOTHAMIST SAYS: The sibling owners of Rose Live Music on Grand Street in Williamsburg have given quite the face-lift to their eponymous subterranean restaurant. The intimate urban-rustic haunt has been renamed Vutera, and the exposed brick walls and wooden beams are now bathed in a candlelit glow for your dining pleasure. New chef Molly Del Monte, the former sous chef at Little Giant, is introducing a Mediterranean menu with a local-and-seasonal angle, complemented by a wine list curated by manager Hugh Crickmore (Mas). Grub Street has photos and the full menu, which features such delicacies as parsnip gnocchi with beet-green pesto, braised lamb shank with red wine and creamy polenta, and an appetizer of Spanish-mackerel escabèche. An review on Strong Buzz deems the place "immensely comforting. It’s the kind of place that beckons like a blazing hearth in an ice storm."
