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It’s fair fowl at one Red Hook restaurant

By Gersh Kuntzman
The Brooklyn Paper
Leisah Swenson and Monica Byrne, who own Home/Made in Red Hook, are having a chicken dinner on Aug. 25 with eggs and poultry grown in the neighborhood.

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First, they moved the restaurant three blocks up Van Brunt Street — and turned it into an Amish barn-raising.

Now the owners the Red Hook eatery Home/Made — formerly the Tini Wine Bar — have a new way to nourish a foodie community: They’re having a chicken dinner.

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And not just any chicken dinner, but a feast of fowl and other poultry protein that was all raised locally.

“We’ve been getting all eggs from [name of farm withheld because the arrangement is a bit on the down-low] and now we’re going to do a full meal with about 25 chickens,” said chef Monica Byrne, who owns Home/Made with her partner Leisah Swenson.

Byrne said the $35 prix-fixe would include coq au vin, a “classic roasted chicken” and some “fun wings.”

“I’ll even make a pate from the livers,” she said.

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There’ll also be salad from “the truck farm man,” whose pickup is often parked nearby.

“We’re about community,” Byrne said.

Red Hook chicken dinner at Home/Made [293 Van Brunt St. between Pioneer and King streets, (347) 223-4135] on Tuesday, Aug. 25.

©2009 Community Newspaper Group

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JZ from red hook says:
went there for breakfast few weeks back..absolutely love the food. it was yummylicious
Sept. 5, 2009, 11:53 pm

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