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# The Dogwood Lands Love From The New York Times
- URL: https://bklyner.com/the-dogwood-lands-love-from-the-new-york-times-ditmas-park/
- Published: 2014-08-22T15:00:56.000Z
- Updated: 2014-09-29T23:23:20.000Z
- Author: Anna Gustafson
- Tags: Ashley Weavil, Dogwood, Southern cuisine, #API-Imported

*[![Dogwood with Chef Ashley ](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Screen-Shot-2014-08-22-at-11.50.16-AM.png)](/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Screen-Shot-2014-08-22-at-11.50.16-AM.png)* *Photo via [The Dogwood](http://instagram.com/p/gBp27JxMSH/?modal=true&ref=bklyner.com)*

Since [The Dogwood opened its doors](/blog/business/scenes-from-the-friends-family-opening-of-the-dogwood-soft-opening-tonight) at 1021 Church Avenue to [the land of Southern food](/blog/food/bite-of-the-day-a-bevy-of-brunch-options-at-the-dogwood) 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](http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-dogwood-brooklyn?ref=bklyner.com)) among neighbors – and those trekking from outside our ‘hood.

Now, almost exactly a year after the restaurant opened, [The Dogwood](http://www.dogwoodnyc.com/?ref=bklyner.com), and its chef Ashley Weavil, has landed [a glowing writeup from the New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/27/dining/hungry-city-the-dogwood-in-prospect-park-south-brooklyn.html?ref=bklyner.com), with the Gray Lady heaping love on the collard greens, cornbread, fried chicken, and more.

![The Dogwood Brunch: Chicken & Red Velvet Waffles](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/dpc_dogwood_brunch_chickenwaffles.jpg)

[From the Times interview with Ashley](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/27/dining/hungry-city-the-dogwood-in-prospect-park-south-brooklyn.html?ref=bklyner.com):

> 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.

[![Dogwood](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Screen-Shot-2014-08-22-at-11.53.54-AM.png)](/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Screen-Shot-2014-08-22-at-11.53.54-AM.png)*Photo via [The Dogwood](http://instagram.com/p/fgXU40xMXy/?modal=true&ref=bklyner.com)*

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](http://willygantrim.bandcamp.com/track/ramblin-man?ref=bklyner.com), 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.

![Dogwood](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Screen-Shot-2014-08-22-at-11.45.59-AM1.png)

*Photo via [The Dogwood](http://instagram.com/p/nJrZQgxMd1/?modal=true&ref=bklyner.com)*

In related Dogwood news, the restaurant will be offering outdoors dining and other specials during the [Church Avenue BID’s sidewalk sales event](/blog/business/outdoor-dining-music-shopping-bargains-coming-to-church-avenue-and-flatbush-avenue-for-sidewalk-sales-this-friday-through-sunday), which is running from today, Friday, through Sunday.

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