Bleu Nuk Bk — Restaurant in New York

A fantastic new addition to the neighborhood!!! I love everything about Bleu Nuk Bk. For starters, it's simple, elegant style with great attention to the nuanced detail of comfort go a long way. Minimalist yet padded bar stools are a key factor, gorgeous lighting, beautiful wall design, and rustic chic bar shelving with excellent glassware are just a few of the things that immediately elevated your experience. The staff is noticeably happy, which tells me it's well run by caring owners and great management. The menu is a beautifully curated mix of delicious local favors with a modern yet classic approach. Everything we tried was a taste sensation, made with great love. The mussels stood out in high regard for me. It was a nice appetizer portion, with full sized tender mussels which is a skill in itself, but the great surprise was how well this heavily garlic broth stood out. Garlic can be tricky, and is often the gross, prechop, often rancid, kind, and when I saw how much garlic was in this dish I was ready to be disappointed but to my great surprise it was one of the BEST, most well prepared, garlic forward broths I have ever had!!! It has to be fresh and it has to be added to the mix at the right time, and this chef knew exactly how to handle every ingredient. Just spectacular! My coconut rice chick pea was comforting but still light. My anti pea, nut, legume husband absolutely LOVED my dish and much to my surprise, he couldn't keep his fork out of my dish!. That's high praise!! His steak dish was so flavorful and expertly cooked, still soft, juicy med/rare which is rarely(see what I did there) accomplished on the thinner cuts. We loved everything about it. All the sides were bursting with flavors. Nice quantity to feel satisfied without feeling too full. The only suggestion would be a few additional wines to round out diverse pallets. We're so excited to have another great walk to restaurants in our growing food destination...

This was an ehhh experience.

We had to wait 15-20 minutes to be seated, awkwardly standing around in the front of a rather small place. The service could have been significantly better, especially considering that it was Mother's Day.

It took about 10 minutes to receive a menu once we were seated, only to discover that it was a very limited Mother's Day menu. We should have been notified about this when making reservations, or while waiting those 20 minutes to be seated, or even during the first 10 minutes we spent at the table reading from the regular menu online. My experience is somewhat unique as I didn't have access to the full food offerings Bleu Nuk provides. However, the waitress was very dismissive about the last minute menu change, and her attitude really dampened the vibe because we just wanted to celebrate and enjoy a good meal for Mother's Day. We didn't feel welcomed, but it was too late to find another place, so we stayed and ate from the limited menu. They even gave us a hard time about making simple substitutions like replacing chicken for shrimp scampi for my two siblings who are allergic to seafood and had to make do with the few options available.

The food was pretty good, but the portions were small and not worth the final bill or the service. Inattentive waitress, forgetting to bring drinks, bringing the wrong food to the wrong table multiple times, needing to ask for simple things like syrup for waffles multiple times. Once again, my experience was unique as I didn't have access to the full menu, but I wouldn't go back or recommend it to anyone else because the service was slow and...

We stopped here for food and a cocktail after noticing it while riding down Nostrand looking for a new place to check out. The space is really nice and open. Loved that they had 2 TVs and a really large bar. We sat at the booth seating behind the bar with a great view of the TVs. The derby and the NBA was on and that made me happy. They are a wine and beer only establishment and we ordered the sangria hoping it would not be too sweet. It wasn't and that was another plus for us. We ordered the spring rolls and oxtail pot stickers. The springs rolls were magnificent the sauce it came with was dynamite! The oxtail pot stickers were decent but probably would try something else next time. Definitely recommend the spring rolls. We were enjoying ourselves so much we ordered an entree the jerk chicken pasta. It was good and I added the sauce that came with the spring rolls and that really kicked it up. They had a 90s R&B playlist that was loud enough for you to hear and sing along lol but not so loud that you would not be able to have a conversation. Our server Natalie was awesome. Very responsive and was handling all the tables with ease. Her pleasant attitude made the experience here even more enjoyable. We met one of the owners and was happy to let him know that we were very pleased with our first visit and would be back. This place is a gem in the neighborhood. We will be back very soon to try more dishes. Great for a date night, catch a WNBA game, meet up with friends or just a chill solo outing they will have...