pitmaster-owner, Hometown Bar-B-Que & Red Hook Tavern · 8 picks
Billy Durney spent almost twenty years in private security before opening Hometown Bar-B-Que in Red Hook in 2013, and later Red Hook Tavern a few blocks away. His own two restaurants are left out of the list below.
Le Bernardin is the most extraordinary seafood restaurant in the world, no less New York City.
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It was so important to me that I paid homage to it here at Red Hook Tavern with my burger.
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order: burger
Where are you desperate to try? Oh, that's easy, Foxface Natural.
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PDT and Attaboy - they're kind of rivals too, which makes this actually fun.
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We have Double Chicken Please now in the city. The cold pizza cocktail, the reverse espresso martini.
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order: cold pizza cocktail, reverse espresso martini
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Published 2026-08-31 · updated 2026-09-01