Ox Cart Tavern Menu

Monday, June 28th, 2010

ox cart menu

Thanks, Craig, for emailing over.

- Liena

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  • whoknows

    Looks great. Can’t wait for this place to open. Hopefully it will encourage others to do the same.

  • lauren

    This menu looks kinda gross.

  • Liz

    Mmmm… onion rings! Looks delicious.

  • Steve

    Mouth watering for sure – wish there was a healthier option on the menu though. But this will be nice for a treat.

  • iloveargyleroad

    what happened to the lamb chops that were posted on an earlier version of the menu?…..LAMBCHOPS please!

    i am so NOT crazy about the menu…i really have to wonder what they were thinking when they put it together. it’s odd and not all that interesting……

  • Jamie

    I’m really not feeling that fried bologna sandwich. But presumably they know the market better than I do, so I wish them well.

  • Dncmilch

    I really wish them all the best. The first two or three items on here sound great.

    That said, as long as we’re complaining, I don’t understand why a restaurant in New York City wouldn’t have at least one vegetarian entree. I mean, I’m not expecting a restaurant called the Ox Cart to win any vegan menu of the year honors, but we have a number of vegetarian friends, and it’s nice when we go out for everyone to be able to eat a full meal, instead of picking and choosing from appetizers.

  • http://beanygetsablog.wordpress.com/ bean

    nothing – nothing on the menu that someone can eat who doesn’t want tons of fat or butter or fry oil can have. yes, could i ask them to hold the chili butter off the chicken? but i don’t like to go somewhere that i only have one option to make a healthy choice that’s yummy when i go out to eat.

  • A Merelis

    This looks to me like a very enticing menu, and might bring me, with friends and/or family in tow, to this quaint corner spot on “my side” of the neighborhood much more often than the restaurant’s previous incarnation did.

    I stopped frequenting Pomme de Terre after I went there for brunch and they were completely out of Bacon. (Leaving me and the others at my table with the intense culinary quandry: “how can you allow your restaurant to run out of Bacon during brunch???” It wasn’t busy nor was it late in the weekend.)

    I have my fingers crossed that similar lapses in organization do not plague this new attempt at what I hope will be a continued trend-setting institution on Newkirk Ave. Good luck, guys! I know this menu, over the next months, will be just the beginning!

  • 4TheLoveOfGod

    Bean – It’s a PUB. For the love. Of God.

    Restaurants are not tailor made for individual human beings. They pick a theme/style/aesthetic, and then build the menu around that. That is why, for example, there is no homemade hummus on this menu; because it’s a pub. That also explains (one would think) why all of the food is unhealthy.

    Do you go to diners and wonder aloud why they don’t have Pad Thai?

    I love this blog. The most entitled people on the face of the earth – everything exists for them to complain about. Wonderful!

  • Jaguar

    I just hope their hours of operation will accommodate those readers who have to commute to Manhattan early in the morning . . . .

  • Anonymous Gero

    when is this opening?

  • 4TheLoveOfGod

    I’m sorry, my comment was a bit more bitchy than it needed to be, Bean. I’m not trying to be an asshole. And I have no right to be holier-than-thou about people who leave meaningless comments on blogs when mine are just as meaningless. I just find the internet to be such an appallingly silly place sometimes. But so is the inside of my head, I suppose.

    And with that, I bow out of the blog commenting business. Peace and happiness to you all.

  • Freddy

    After reading the menu, I miss PDT even more!!!

  • NoProblemWithTheMenuAtAll

    Obviously the menu is comprised to offer a contemporary twist on classic American/Euro pub food as this is going to be a place devoted more to the drinking than the culinary offerings.

    Albeit this menu is totally not for everyone, that is to be expected with a tiny menu devoted to the aforementioned theme. It looks pretty delicious anyway if you ask me and seems to offer something different to folks in the hood. PDT was also indeed different, but was deemed a failure, so it’s natural to venture in a totally different direction.

    P.S. I anticipate the menu will adapt early on if there are severe troubles.

  • NoProblemWithTheMenuAtAll

    And I totally forgot to mention the ever-important issue of how reasonable (unpretentious) the menu is.

  • Freddy

    This is still a major bring down from PDT, no matter how you slice the bologna.

  • Bubbah

    I guess they’re trying to make it inexpensive. There are things that look interesting on there for a quick bite. I don’t think the 50-70 year old crowd that like PDT so much (that they got closed) is going to be so gung ho about this menu, so let’s hope for their sake some yipersnappers show up.
    Did PDT close up because it was losing money or just not making enough? Seriously, the restaurant was put into an old burned out bodega that had been empty for a long time on a kindah cruddy block, how much could the rent possibly be?

  • http://www.goodbehaviordays.com The Gooch

    I’m going to check this place out for the duck confit pot pie alone. How could that not be good?

  • Jana

    I like the prices, but I can’t really say I’m dying to eat here… Bummer.

  • http://beanygetsablog.wordpress.com/ bean

    @4TheLoveOfGod: i get it. it’s a pub. i love to eat out. i am happy to spread the love over multiple eating establishments so that they thrive and prosper. i don’t mind that anyone else orders all-fried app, main and even a fried frozen milkyway for dessert. but i don’t and won’t eat that way anymore. will i eat a burger? you betcha. with plain salad on the side. i lost 35 pounds over the past 2 years and my health got increasingly better (if you read my blog you know that i am a bc survivor). i’m not pissy or holier-than-thou about eating healthy. and i’ve been known to indulge in a few fries off my husband’s plate. but almost everything on that menu screamed fried or buttered or cheesed. it just is a big turn-off for me. i’d rather have a great simple pan-roasted chicken, good veggies and indulge in a big beer with dinner than eat a bunch of fried or buttery food. i’d love to help them stay open…we frequented pdt a lot. i’ll have to spread the patron-$-love elsewhere.
    have a soft pretzel with cheese sauce and a duck confit pot pie for me!

  • http://www.tomorrowland.org bob

    it’s basically a Bennigan’s menu. fried, fatty, slathered food for the cast-iron stomach crowd.

    not saying every restaurant needs to be a healthy, pan-global, Purple Yam flavor explosion, but sheeesh… they could have at least veered toward the fresh/local side of things. morbid obesity is so passe. seems like Oxcart didn’t get the memo.

  • http://www.ditmasparkblog.com Ben

    That looks incredibly yummy to me.