One of my missions while planning brunch is to pick a place that's near something fun that I can do after I eat my heart out. Saturday's brunch came in mind when we decided that we wanted to spend the day at the Frying Pan, a docked ship/bar on the Hudson River. There's nothing like day drinking in the sun on a boat in the river. Unfortunaely, the Frying Pan is all the way on 12th avenue - quite a schlepp for most east siders like me. But the good news is that there are actually a good amount of restaurants popping up on Tenth Avenue in Chelsea. With the Highline and Frying Pan right around the corner, these places have become more and more popular. We decided on Trestle on Tenth after reading about it in this year's Vanity Fair Summer Guide (if you haven't received it yet - let me know!) and it got my attention because it has a back garden.
Although two of our friends slept through our 12:30 reservation, the rest of the group arrived at the restaurant a little too sweaty to sit outside. We opted for indoors and ordered ice coffees right away. The menu had a lot of things I was unfamiliar with, but the waiter explained them well and they all sounded interesting but good! Many dishes are Swiss inspired and we ordered almost all of them. I got the "Bure Rösti", which was basically hash browns with onions covered with cheese and two fried eggs on top. The potatoes had an interesting spice in them and every other bite or so had a huge kick. The eggs were runny and the dish on a whole was filling.
Lindsey got the other Swiss influenced dish: duck confit hash with poached eggs in a Bearnaise sauce. Duck for breakfast was kind of intense but it was something different and we had to try it. One egg was a little overcooked, but the other was perfect.
Jenna was a plain Jane that morning and just got 2 eggs any style with the same hash browns as me, toast and bacon on the side. Nothing special to report there.
As a side we were deciding between the paprika dusted french fries that looked pretty good and the pizokel. Having never had pizokel, we decided on that and it wasn't our best decision. If you're not familiar with pizokel, it tasted kind of like gnocchi without the potato filling. There was little taste unless you got a bite with the caramelized onions and it was supposed to be with Gruyere cheese but I couldn't taste any.
Overall, it wasn't the best brunch I've had in New York. I give it some points for being different than the standard and some more points for having outdoor space but I'm not rushing back there. Dinner might be a different story, but if you're heading towards Tenth Avenue, I would go to Cookshop instead.
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