We had the pleasure of having dinner at The Grocery Restaurant in Carroll Gardens last week, and loved the super drab, olive green and grey coloring of the interior and exterior. It's all very Martha Stewart 1990, or very WPA Project 1930's, or simply European in its tremendous sense of restraint. There was even a raw turnip on our table...
The pumpkins and gourds outside were so non-orange!
Excuse the cell phone pics. The Grocery has very little signage, but the style is distinctively vintage. You can check out the website here: TheGroceryRestaurant.com.
Inside, there are no pictures on any of the walls and the music is so low that you don't even hear it. The color of the walls is similar to the outside color, and the range looks like it comes from a Farrow & Ball collection (example below).
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OK, I'll be the pedantic jerk who points out that the thing on 'our' table is a parsnip, not a turnip. At this time of year it's hard to tell if root vegetables are coming more into vogue as a symbol of hard times, or whether it's a normal seasonal shift from summer to winter produce.
That petrol green colour is good though.
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I suddenly find myself having to revise my mental picture of Baldrick's turnip. Parsnips always sprang to my mind, incorrectly.
Beautiful restaurant, for sure.
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I love both the food and the decor at The Grocery. Very calming.
I saw the green pumpkins and gourds outside during the day, and I thought that although beautiful and strange, the color was so close to that of the restaurant's facade that it looked kind of bland.
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Turnips are usually confused with rutabagas and kohlrabi, not usually parsnip (which people sometimes think is a white carrot)...
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/ext/senior/vegetabl/turnip1.htm
Here in Switzerland, parsnips are as rare as hen's teeth. I'm always on the look-out for them because they are an essential ingredient in my chicken soup. I bought some once in a farmer's market, and a little old lady (about 75) stopped me to ask what they were and what you did with them -- imagine, she had never seen a parsnip before! And a couple of weeks ago, I was surprised to find them in one of the larger Swiss supermarkets, under a sign encouraging people to try this "antique" vegetable that they are trying to reintroduce!
(can't find rapini here either, btw).
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