The Dogwood Lands Love From The New York Times

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Since The Dogwood opened its doors at 1021 Church Avenue to the land of Southern food last year, it has quickly developed a following (even a southerner loathe to admit that their home cuisine could be good in New York City has fallen in love with the barbeque sandwich and cornbread) among neighbors – and those trekking from outside our ‘hood.

Now, almost exactly a year after the restaurant opened, The Dogwood, and its chef Ashley Weavil,  has landed a glowing writeup from the New York Times, with the Gray Lady heaping love on the collard greens, cornbread, fried chicken, and more.

From the Times interview with Ashley:

Buttermilk biscuits and fried chicken alike are lashed with honey butter until they verge on dessert. Stout-braised beef ribs intimidate, appearing almost a foot long. (“Six to nine inches,” she demurs.) They present well “if you’re Fred Flintstone,” one of my companions said. Best are the burned ends; the rest is mostly fat and the sticky malingering of molasses.

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As we’ve been able to enjoy the live bluegrass music on Wednesdays, we can definitely back the reporter’s assessment:

Come on Wednesday, when there is live music, and you may find a bluesman hunched in a corner with a hollow-body and a thumb pick, his voice as rutted as a 78. “I love you, baby,” he half-yodels, scraping up to the high note. “But you got to understand.” Dollar bills curl in a Mason jar. Buy him a drink and as the night drains down let him tell you the story of his life, of every Greyhound bus that led him here.

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In related Dogwood news, the restaurant will be offering outdoors dining and other specials during the Church Avenue BID’s sidewalk sales event, which is running from today, Friday, through Sunday.

Congratulations to Ashley and all the hard-working folk at The Dogwood!