Back Forty

East Village
190 Ave. B, near 12th Street
212-388-1990
backfortynyc.com

We came into the city to welcome Zachary to the planet. He's been traveling inter-galactically until now. We were on the East side so we decided to try Back Forty, the lower priced Savoy spinoff in the East Village. We sat in the garden on a lovely night, and began with a Red Currant Gin cocktail and a Red and Black, a margherita with strawberries and pepper. The latter was very good. Then lemony, crisp garden salads with spicy arugula, a steamed out hearts of artichoke dish, soggy rosemary salt fries, a hard goat cheese with apricots and honeycomb, and grilled pork sausage with white bean and olive puree and chives. We couldn't resist blueberry pie with vanilla ice cream, and didn't. The pie was a winner. The walk home reminded us of how much we like the East Village.
OVERALL RATING: B on B