the tablehopper | 3:09 pm | July 30, 2008 | Foodie 411 | Add a comment
Moving into the former Palmetto space in Cow Hollow will be Nettie’s Crab Shack. Co-owner Annette Yang is the Nettie behind the name, who many locals may recognize from Spruce (she was the opening manager), plus Jack Falstaff, and Gordon’s House of Fine Eats, where she met Nettie’s chef and co-owner Brian Leitner, who was working at Gordon’s as an executive sous chef. Chef Leitner was at Chez Panisse for five years, and was a co-owner in Living Room Events, a local catering company. He’s putting together a menu of regional seafood that will not only highlight New England specialties, but places like New Orleans as well. And Leitner’s Chez Panisse background will mean highlighting seasonal and honest ingredients prepared and presented in a way that they really shine, simply. Think pails of piping hot steamers and pots of bubbling chowder and fish stews made with the freshest local ingredients.
Jim Zack of Zack/deVito (Gordon’s House of Fine Eats, Globe, Bacar, Tres Agaves, and Orson) is the architect who is transforming the front glassed-in area into an actual outdoor patio, and the bar and flooring are also being changed. The dining room will be filled with chunky, rustic wood tables covered in butcher paper, comfortable seating, and simple but genuine décor. There will be daily changing chalkboard specials, plus the full bar means pitchers of house cocktails, and buckets of icy cold beer. The opening is looking like fall, perhaps late September. Lunch Mon–Fri, dinner nightly, and weekend brunch.
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