FETTE SAU: 354 METROPOLITAN AVE., WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN
5/23/2009
At Fette Sau [German for fat pig], after you jockey for some precious real estate at one of the long picnic tables in the dining room or on the patio out front, you head for the long line at the counter. Here you order your barbecue by type and by the pound.
It is a beautiful thing,
Pulled pork. Beef brisket. Ribs. Boston butt. Pork belly. Pork sausage. Pork cheeks.
Yes, my friends, Berkshire pork cheeks!
The glorious cue, tender and smoked-to-perfection is piled high on a butcher paper covered aluminum tray next to your Guss’ half-sour pickles, German potato salad, baked beans, or sauerkraut.
Fette Sau is serious about their cue, evidenced by the wall-sized butcher’s diagrams painted on the walls. Everything I ate here was absolutely fantastic. And I ate a lot.
Fortunately they are equally serious about their beer and spirits, focusing on local craft brews like Blue Point, Sixpoint, Chelsea and a top-notch bourbon and single malt selection. The downside being that you can spend as much on booze here than on your meal. Easily.
If you can deal with elbowing through a crush of hipsters and negotiating for table space, you must go.
The hard-core carnivore inside of you will not regret it.
–CP
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