Food
Seasonal and
Sustainable
BY ANGELA MATUA
AMATUA@QNS.COM
Anew restaurant in Long
Island City is serving up
New American cuisine with
ingredients sourced from
farms along the East Coast.
Bellwether, which opened on April
3 at 47-25 Vernon Blvd., is a 60-seat
restaurant headed by Chef and Co-
Partner Preston Madson, who grew up in
Georgia and has worked in restaurants
throughout New York City and around
the country.
The menu includes items “with inflections
of Mediterranean, North African
and Asian cuisine,” according to a
press release. Snacks include the Parker
House Rolls with naturally leavened
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bread, sea salt and goats butter milk
and grilled fava beans with black salt,
chives and lemon.
Entrees include the Half Goffle
Road Cornish Hen with arugula,
mixed radish, charred lemon and
chermoula. The poultry is sourced
from Goffle Road Poultry Farms in
New Jersey. The braised lamb neck
for two includes butter bean hummus,
spicy house pickles and pistachio
flatbread.
Fish options include a seared black
bass with asparagus, Tropea onions,
parsley, roasted pepper and Meyer
lemon (a hybrid citrus fruit native to
China), black bass crudo with serrano
peppers and celery and a seared octopus
with sea island red peas, potatoes
and salsa verde.
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Photo by Ava Ranger
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