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CUISINE: Vietnamese
ADDRESS: 79 Berry St., Brooklyn, NY 11211
at N. 9th St.
PHONE: 718.218.7063
HOURS: Tue-Sun, noon-4pm and 6pm-11pm; Mon, closed
CARDS: MasterCard, Visa
BOOZE: BYOB
AVERAGE ENTREE: $9-$14
MENU: Lunch | Dinner
SUBWAY: L Train to Bedford Ave
MAP: Click Here
DELIVERY: No
EXTRAS: Outdoor Dining
WEBSITE: www.silenthbrooklyn.com
EATER SAYS: The last wafts of the former Oznot's Dish restaurant on North 9 and Berry in Williamsburg are being flushed out with fish sauce. The space has been humming with activity, with construction and installation of a new restaurant concept called Silent H, and a potential slated opening for February. Just ask the skinny dude smoking a cigarette who is always out in front. His name is Vinh Nguyen. He's young and scraping by, but he is passionate and resourceful and he has a heart of gold and an awesome looking menu to come. I think his inspiration to start his own business came from his days when he bartended and managed Father's Office in Santa Monica (LA), where he trained under the tutelage of the owner Sang Yoon. There he fell in love with beer and business, and the concept that you can impose and dictate a simple, yet meticulously crafted menu with no customer alterations, something that might have to do with the fact that Vinh refuses to serve 'pho' at his new spot. And I am sure his Vietnamese heritage and his mom's cooking factors heavily in here as well. Since he has been in NYC, he's been working in catering before breaking off to focus on launching his own restaurant. Vinh is a sponge for knowledge across food, brews and booze and he is one of the funniest, friendliest fuckers you could meet. More importantly, he is bringing badly needed, authentic-inspired Vietnamese cuisine to the hood and he promises its not going to be done like the vomitous SEA and Planet Thai compromises of southeast asian cuisine are. (Sorry no hanging bubble chairs ever here.)
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