BUSHWICK — Bushwick's growing dining scene won more accolades Thursday after two local restaurants joined the Michelin Guide's affordable gourmet list for the first time.
Homemade pasta restaurant Faro, which opened this year, earned a spot, and Falansai, a Vietnamese restaurant that opened in 2013, was added as well.
They join more than a dozen restaurants in Williamsburg, Greenpoint and Bushwick on the Bib Gourmand list, which highlights the best neighborhood restaurants with meals under $40.
Faro, located at 436 Jefferson St., has been impressing reviewers since it debuted.
Robert Sietsema called it Bushwick's "new star" in Eater.
The New Yorker teased the restaurant's trendiness — "You half expect hashtags to form in the steam above it (#NoFilter, #EatLocal)" — but ultimately commended the quality of the food.
"Faro should, by rights, be annoying, precious, and easily dismissed," reviewer Amelia Lester wrote, "but there are so many pleasing details, like pickled mustard seeds in the beef tartare, and chèvre cream beneath the fire-roasted beets — not to mention all those idiosyncratic plates scraped clean."
Falansai, at 112 Harrison Place, has been around for longer, slowly becoming a neighborhood staple serving Vietnamese food with French and Chinese influences.
Chef and owner Henry Trieu is known to experiment with flavors and once released a series of fusion phos, including a mole pho, Peruvian pho and a Southeast Asian pho.
Roberta's pizza is the only other Bushwick restaurant on the Bib Gourmand list.
British eatery Dear Bushwick, at 41 Wilson Ave., is no longer on the list, but that doesn't necessarily mean Michelin Guide reviewers think the restaurant has declined in quality.
The guide often ends up giving coveted Michelin stars to former Bib Gourmand restaurants, a different and higher honor that isn't announced until next week.
Further north, Williamsburg and Greenpoint restaurants continued their strong showing — particularly South Williamsburg, which boasts eight restaurants on Michelin's affordable gourmet list.
Mediterranean restaurant Zizi Limona, at 129 Havemeyer St., joined the Bib Gourmand list for the first time. The spot opened in 2012 and is known for its hummus and falafel.
Mainstays like Diner, Egg and Marlow and Sons also kept their spots on the list.
Here's a full list of all the restaurants in Williamsburg, Greenpoint and Bushwick that made it on the Bib Gourmand:
Baci & Abbracci, 204 Grand St.
Diner, 85 Broadway
Egg, 109 North Third St.
Falansai, 102 Harrison Place
Faro, 436 Jefferson St.
Marlow & Sons, 81 Broadway
Paulie Gee's, 60 Greenpoint Ave.
Roberta's, 261 Moore St.
Rye, 247 South First St.
Shalom Japan, 310 South Fourth St.
Traif, 229 South Fourth St.
Xixa, 241 South Fourth St.
Zizi Limona, 129 Havemeyer St.
