HARLEM — A new restaurant is serving up America’s take on tapas.
Row House, which opened on 115th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard last Friday, features a menu of small plates that are meant to be shared among friends.
“That’s the way I like to eat,” said Camaron Fagan, one of the owners. “We are laying out the menu so a group of people can come in and try a bunch of different things. So you end up full but you are experiencing a lot of different flavors.”
The menu reflects New York’s history of being a melting pot. Dishes combine flavors like carbonara dumplings, stuffed chicken wings and pig in a blanket made with kielbasa.
They plan to change the menu four times a year and only use produce that’s in season. For the winter, that means different kinds of squash, potatoes, Brussels sprouts, mushrooms and root vegetables.
Tapas-style plates start at $6 and go to $16. There are also entrees from $12 to $29.
The Row House also has a separate bar in the basement, which has been dubbed “Under Bar.” While the first floor space has massive windows that let in light, white walls and hardwood ceiling, Under Bar is “dark, red and sexy,” Fagan said.
The space — which has elegant wall paper, red couches and dark floors — is open for both the public and private events.
Fagan and her co-owners — her husband Gareth, Sheri Wilson and Stephen Daly — are the same group behind Harlem Tavern.
“Harlem Tavern is our baby,” she said. “We didn’t want to compete against each other, we wanted to complement each other. One day you might want to go and watch a game and have some wings and then another day you want to be a little more mellow.”
