Ici
Brooklyn, NY 11205
Phone: (718) 789-2778
- Price:
- $$
- Cross Street:
- Vanderbilt Avenue
- Directions:
- G at Clinton-Washington Aves
- Hours:
- Sun, Tue-Thu 8am-10pm, Sat 8am-11pm
Editorial Review for Ici – by Cadien Clark
In Short
The soothing, leafy backyard garden and main dining room with white-washed brick walls provide the perfect backdrop for this unpretentious addition to the neighborhood. Manhattan restaurant insiders Laurent and Catherine Saillard have brought their expertise to Brooklyn in the form of farm-fresh ingredients and reasonable prices. Gastronomic highlights include the salad with arugula, spaetzle, cod, hanger steak, and for the finale, a chocolate pot de creme. There is also an excellent European wine list.
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User Reviews for Ici
05/12/2008 Posted by h4569
This is my first restaurant review, but my experience at Ici was so distasteful, I felt it my civilian duty to warn others. We went to Ici for mother's day--my mother had been excited about going for a while. When we got there, they seated us in the heated tent in the back garden--which was incredibly uncomfortable because the heater was set to extra high. I had to use my menu as a fan, which worked out ok, because it took forever for the waitress to take our order. The meal started out on a bad foot because the waitress did not know what "scotch" was, and the menu did not have the dish my mother had been looking forward to for weeks. In fact, the menu was so unexciting that we had trouble finding something that each of us wanted to eat. After one hour, the waitress brought our appetizers (also 20 minutes after all other parties in the hot tent were served, regardless of how long after us they were seated). The appetizers left much to be desired, the egg and anchovy mousse looked like processed spam with some wilted lettuce. It did not taste much better. The waitress failed to clean up our increasingly unappetizing looking starters for thirty minutes, at which point, we decided we did not want to wait for our main course. We promptly asked for the check--with the waitress providing no apology for the poor service. Even though we didn't stay for dinner, our bill was over $100. I think it was $100 worth spent for not having to eat a main course at Ici.
10/17/2007 Posted by shani12
We went there last Sunday for Brunch with a party of 8 and had a really good time. Great waitress, fresh and tasty food, could not asked for a better Brunch in Brooklyn! Keep it up!
Pros: professional service, organic food
Cons: wait for brunch
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