Photo: Kelley Debettencourt
There’s nothing I love more than a home-cooked meal. Except, of course, when it's someone else who's doing the cooking. With the new "Sunday Suppers" at Cook & Brown Public House in Providence you can enjoy creatively crafted dishes made from Rhode Island’s freshest, seasonal ingredients, and even make a friend or two.
Now three months since the restaurant’s March debut, owners Jenny and Nemo Bolin are bringing tables and food-lovers together every Sunday as they mix and match the dishes featured on the week’s perpetually changing menu. Non-adventurous eaters beware: what they have is what you get. There’s no ordering on Sundays, just good food—and good company thanks to family-style service.
What’s more to love at Cook & Brown? They’re serving up ingredients you can’t find anywhere else—unless you count the far reaches of Rhode Island’s wooded areas. Much of their produce, including mushrooms and herbs, is gathered by a local “hippy” foraging group that’s been known to deliver fresh morels the size of your fist. The Bolin's pride themselves on branching out from conventional providers who they say have already cornered the Rhode Island restaurant market.
If you're not quite ready to embraced the element of surprise, you can always check out Cook & Brown’s Twitter feed or Facebook page to keep up with the menu’s daily changes.
Maybe the best meal that I have ever had. I had the pleasure of eating Sunday supper at the bar, and it was truly a journey of culinary magnificence. Simple yet high-quality ingredients combined and caressed into artfully presented and delicious dishes. My first experience with bone marrow, it was well portioned and expertly timed. As more of a gourmand than a gourmet I was happy to find the staff knowledgeable, but never patronizing. I would highly recommend Cook & Brown to anyone who wants to experience of upper echelon dining in a relaxed and cordial atmosphere.