Thursday, September 17th, 2009

After Center Cut, the steakhouse on the ground floor of the Empire Hotel (63rd and Broadway), closed in mid-August, owner Jeffrey Chodorow’s team quickly got to work on a restaurant makeover.  The result, Ed’s Chowder House, opens today.  The new restaurant is headed up by Ed Brown, the chef responsible for Michelin-starred restaurant Eighty One (81st and Columbus).  While Center Cut had an upscale feel, the new Ed’s Chowder House will feel more like a seafood shack, offering simple, user-friendly fare in the form of a chowder bar, a raw bar, and other seafood selections.  According to Brown’s interview for the blog Food and Things, “there’s nothing on the menu where you won’t be sure what it will be.”  The restaurant certainly offers something new in the Upper West Side, and it just may be worth checking out.

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