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The Good Fork Pub
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There’s a perpetual coziness to Red Hook, even post-Ikea, and we require that all establishments there maintain this coziness. If you’re going to identify as a pub, even more so.
Previously known as Good Fork, this beloved neighborhood restaurant shut down during the pandemic, then reemerged as a pub with a bigger bar and a cute backyard with enough stray weeds snaking through it to remind you you’re allowed to unwind. This place has all the warmth of your favorite English pub—inviting barn doors, brick walls, amber light—and it also happens to have some of the more interesting bar food out there.
photo credit: Good Fork Pub
Instead of your typical fish and chips or shepherd's pie, they serve a small, ever-changing selection of snacks and mains with a Korean twist. We’re forever loyal to their veggie burger, a fried green mung bean patty that gets a slightly smoky flavor thanks to Vegemite aioli. The menu also has other items like a gooey Korean cheesesteak and a fried chicken sandwich with gochujang sauce—but if you don’t want to have a full meal, you’d be just as happy coming with a group to drink some beers and share a pot of the spicy-sweet kimchi beer cheese.
Good Fork Pub is the sort of place where you wander in for a late snack or dinner and have a conversation with the bartender that goes on far too long for a weeknight. Only this time, you can eat something other than chicken wings and frozen burgers. Red Hook lost a capital-R restaurant but gained something more sacred, a homey neighborhood watering hole where your friends can pop in and out as they please.
Food Rundown
photo credit: Good Fork Pub
Veggie Smash Burger
photo credit: Good Fork Pub
Korean Cheesesteak Sandwich
Kimchi Beer Cheese
Fried Chicken Sandwich