WEST VILLAGE — A new location of the beloved Brooklyn swine shrine Fatty 'Cue will officially open on Carmine Street soon, and diners can expect a more sophisticated take on the restaurant's smoky entrees.
The 50 Carmine St. restaurant has begun serving dinner and will officially open on Tuesday, a spokeswoman said in a preview on Thursday.
Fans of the chain's original Brooklyn location may be dismayed to see that barbecued meat is not the main event at the new location. The current menu includes poached chicken and smoked eggplant, broiled sardines, smoked goat ragu and buttermilk fried rabbit.
While the frequently changing menu will differ from the Brooklyn location's offerings, the essentials are all there, the spokeswoman said.
"The heart of who we are is here — smokiness and a lot of good booze," she said.
The atmosphere of the restaurant is a step up from the ease of the Brooklyn location, too, with dimmed lights and green tufted leather banquettes in one section of the dining room.
"This is definitely a more elevated style of service than we've ever done," the spokeswoman said.
The new location is the first restaurant in the Fatty family — which includes locations of Fatty Crab in the West Village, Upper West Side and on the Virgin Islands; and Fatty Snack kiosks downtown and in Chelsea — to serve dessert, the spokeswoman said. The current dessert menu includes tamarind pudding with sesame tapioca and smoke, and coconut mangosteen sherbet with "dill compressed watermelon" and menthol ice.
Fatty 'Cue will offer Thai-style cocktail service, where diners buy liquor by the bottle and the restaurant supplies a cartful of mixers, according to Grub Street.
"Fatty" food is not mere barbecue, Zak Pelaccio and Jori Jayne Emde of the restaurant wrote on the website Food Republic.
"[The] real catalyst that launched what is now Fatty was [that] when it happened, the timing, the passion, naivete and frustration with existing paradigms … brought Fatty to the vanguard of flavor and a new style of dining," they wrote.
The restaurant will be open Tuesday through Sunday from 5 p.m. to about 2 a.m. and will serve food until midnight.
