Gone Fishing: Marietta Transforms into Peaches Shrimp & Crab
Brooklyn’s beloved B+C Restaurants group has become synonymous with chicken, be it barbecued at Smoke Joint, deposited in gumbo at Peaches, or spiked with ghost chilies at Hothouse (which gets considerable credit for stimulating NYC’s prevailing obsession with Nashville hot chicken). But at Clinton Hill’s Marietta—where the bird of choice was classic southern-fried—the second most popular item was actually blue crab spaghetti, a fact that sent the enterprising team’s wheels spinning.
“It was actually our chef Damien’s idea,” explains co-owner Craig Samuel. “After the fried chicken, six or so of his most-ordered dishes were seafood—which is great, because cooking seafood makes us all happy.”
“On the other hand, people were coming to think of Marietta as a special occasion place, for Friday and Saturday night dinner or Sunday brunch,” he continued. “And so, we thought transitioning into an affordable, casual seafood concept seemed like a logical step to take.”
285 Grand Ave., Clinton Hill
Photos by Maggie Shannon