The Summer of Bâtard

Here are some first impressions of Drew Nieporent's Bâtard, courtesy of Tribeca Citizen: "I'm not sure there's much new about it at all. And yet, it succeeds as comfort dining par excellence—the aspects that make it work are ones valued uptown. You're taken care of marvelously but not stiffly, and the room is the same windowless cocoon it has always been, even if that felt like more of a relief in the 1990s, when these streets could still qualify as mean." [TC]