Some restaurateurs whose talents are publicly rewarded rest on their laurels. Not Yuu Shimono, head chef and owner of the eponymous Restaurant Yuu in Greenpoint. Despite the restaurant’s having received a Michelin Star last year and been named more recently the best new restaurant in America, the young chef is tireless in seeking out ways to reshape and refine his concept.
The latest refinement is the addition of a four-course dessert tasting menu complete with tea pairing plus take-home sweets for $100 per person. Among the offerings on the menu conceived by Executive Pastry Chef Masaki Takahashi is a reimagined mont blanc. In this take on the nineteenth-century French classic, the whipped cream piped above the sweetened chestnut purée is laced with 12-year-old Yamazaki Whisky. For a touch of drama, the dessert arrives enveloped in a cloud of smoke. An apple pie, perfect for fall, is crafted in a fashion reminiscent of a tarte tatin using Honeycrisp apples and Calvados.
The take-home sweets are presented to you as you leave and consist of a mason jar filled with house-made almond and hazelnut chocolates.
Seatings are at the six-seat bar with a new seating every half hour from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
This limited-time menu will be available the 17th, 18th, 19th, 24th, 25th, and 26th of September.
Restaurant Yuu, 55 Nassau Avenue (Guernsey Street), Greenpoint, Brooklyn, 347-422-0270.
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