Back Forty West

07/21/2016

We are having a big sale of the contents of Back Forty West all week!!! It includes SarPottery! Each day from 11-8. We'll be selling coffee and bar beverages as well! Come on over to 70 Prince St!

Bar stools, kitchen equipment, art work, tables, chairs, etc

07/21/2016

We are selling all contents of restaurant (not including fixtures).
Pots, pans, inserts, sheet pans, Vitamix, Robo Coupe, waffle irons, utensils, white plates of all sizes, artwork, bar stools, tables, chairs, lighting fixtures, glassware, decorative items, utensils, antique podium, SarPottery, plus a lot more! Sale technically ends on Friday but we are around next week. Hours are 11am-8pm. Come on over to 70 Prince.

07/07/2016

Dear Friends,

After 26 years on the corner of Prince and Crosby Streets, I am moving away from a bricks and mortar involvement with the restaurant business. July 16th will be our last day of service for Back Forty West.

My interests have evolved over the past decades and so I am shifting my efforts beyond day-to-day operations of a food service business to work on broader food and agriculture issues. Since its inception Susan and I strove to build a passionate community of neighbors, patrons, employees and suppliers. We succeeded.

That community has sustained us in myriad ways and we are deeply grateful. We are also proud of the cooks and service staff we mentored, of all the dollars we committed to purchasing local or sustainable ingredients, and of the memorable meals we cooked and orchestrated for thousands of diners who share our aesthetic and social values. These efforts have indelibly altered the food economy, shifted how we think about food and made us all healthier and happier people.

In addition to any activist work you might find me involved with, look forward to curated events, pop-ups, and more published prose from me. It’s not that running a restaurant is any more challenging today than it was when we took over an old luncheonette on a crack vial strewn block of not-really Soho in 1990, I am just less stimulated by the prospect of meeting those challenges.

Writing a food memoir and deepening my relationships with the activist food community is what I have set my sights on. Please stop by for a Back Forty West cocktail or a meal and share some memories with us. Or post it here on Facebook. We’re happy to hear from you in any form.

05/12/2016

Thank you Taste Talks for the shout out about Calcotada happening this Sunday, May 15th and Monday, May 16th!

04/29/2016

Calcotada on Sunday, May 15th AND Monday, May 16th. It is a wonderful festival celebrating spring! You can read more about it and purchase tickets by clicking image below.

04/29/2016

by Chef Peter Hoffman, Back Forty West

12/01/2015

Thanks Grub Street and New York Magazine for the write up!!! Come check out our carp. and thank you Ronny Hopkins for the endless supply of fish!!!

Chef Mike Laarhoven cures, smokes, and serves them not with barbecue sauce but a za’atar-spiked crème fraîche.

10/17/2015

There are still tickets left for Eliot Coleman / Barbara Damrosch Dinner on Tuesday night! Link below:

http://bso.sh/harvest_dinner

A Harvest Dinner with the Constant Gardeners

Eliot Coleman, called an “agrarian elder” by the New York Times and his garden partner wife Barbara Damrosch will join us from Maine for a harvest dinner on Tuesday October 20th. Over a meal celebrating the best of the autumn market and our local organic farmers, Eliot and Barb will discuss the nature versus nurture argument of agriculture- Seeds or Soil? Is it what we grow or how we grow? Four courses with paired beverages $85 plus tax and gratuity available for purchase here or at backfortynyc.com. For more information call Back Forty West 212-219-8570.

Salad of Treviso, Jerusalem Artichokes, Pear Mostarda and Womanchego

Fluke and Scallops in Clam and Trinidad Pepper Broth with Cannellini Beans, Fennel

Duck Confit, Kuri Squash and Roasted Shallots on Tomatillo Pumpkin Seed Sauce

Apple Quince Tart

09/30/2015

Back forty west is tonight! Serving weisswurst, bratwurst, duck confit, house made kraut (that's been fermenting in the wine cellar for weeks now) and plum cake. Tickets for the dinner are available on our website www.backfortynyc.com

We've also changed up our tap line to boot! (Pun intended) as we have a boot for you to please come in and challenge your friends to drink.

We are serving now schlenkerla rauchbier, weihenstephaner weiss, Brooklyn Oktoberfest & wurzburger dunkelweiss

Stay for the dinner, or come by for a sausage plate and beer

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09/28/2015

The team at Nylon Singapore stopped by to enjoy our Pulled Pork Hash

Pulled Pork Hash at Back Forty West in SoHo.

08/26/2015

Thank you smitten kitchen for cocktail shout out at Back Forty West. We have just added Live Juice Cocktails this week!

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08/04/2015

Back Forty West is a farm to table restaurant with items including smoked pork shoulder, suckling pig, and a working fireplace.