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New Eatery by Former Commerce Restaurant Chef Opens at Hudson Square Hotel

By Danielle Tcholakian | September 27, 2016 8:35am
 The bar at Harold's Meat + Three (left) and a hanger steak with three sides (right).
The bar at Harold's Meat + Three (left) and a hanger steak with three sides (right).
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Harold's Meat + Three

HUDSON SQUARE — The new restaurant by Harold Moore, the former chef of now-shuttered West Village neighborhood favorite Commerce, is finally open at the Arlo Hudson Square hotel on Renwick Street.

Moore's new eatery, Harold's Meat + Three, offers Southern-inspired fare in the "meat plus three" style of Southern cafeteria restaurants, where guests choose a main "meat" for the center of their plate and then add three side dishes.

“Guests really have a chance to choose their own destiny,” Moore said in a statement. “I was drawn to the concept because it allows for people to just have what they want, without compromise.”

Center-plate items include Beer Can Chicken, a whole roasted lobster, pork ribs or grilled salmon (below), all prepared over burning wood.

Side dishes include broccoli with burnt garlic, basil fried rice, country club potatoes, twice-baked avocado, quinoa and seasonal vegetables.

Other menu items at the 110-seat indoor and outdoor restaurant include a whole roasted chicken for two served with foie gras bread stuffing, potato puree and seasonal vegetables and a prime rib of beef (below) that is sliced tableside.

Moore is also offering more traditional Southern daily specials, with anticipated dishes like smothered pork chops, shrimp and grits and fried chicken.

Harold's Meat + Three is also serving brunch seven days a week from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Brunch menu items include French toast sticks (above), shakshuka (below) and eggs with grits and ham steak (at top).

The dining room features Harold's Table, which gives diners a view into the open kitchen, as well as banquette seating and repurposed wood tables.

It is located on the ground floor of the new 11-story, 325-room Arlo Hudson Square hotel at 2 Renwick St. (separate from the hotel entrance at 231 Hudson St.), and takes up 2,400 square feet of the hotel's total 97,000 square feet.

The hotel was designed by architect Gene Kaufman with an eye to using aged brick to meld with the neighborhood's industrial building façades, and was built with the purchase of two sets of air rights from neighboring buildings.