Make Ursula part of your world – James Beard nominee opens eatery in Brooklyn
GayCities spoke with Ursula owner Eric See about working for Beyoncé (yep, you read that right) and building queer community in restaurants.
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GayCities spoke with Ursula owner Eric See about working for Beyoncé (yep, you read that right) and building queer community in restaurants.
Eric See is opening Ursula at 387 Nostrand Avenue in spring 2023, now with dinner and drinks (and, of course, breakfast burritos)
Eric See opened Ursula in Brooklyn during the pandemic, and the quietly radical New Mexican restaurant quickly became a sensation, earning a James Beard nomination. Now it has to move — and the chef is thinking about what comes next.
You need these New Mexican-style breakfast burritos in your life Expect to wait on a very worth-it line when visiting Ursula in Crown Heights. By Advertising Believe it or not, although New York is a melting pot of ethnic cuisines that cater to all flavor profiles and cultures, the city has yet to fully awcknoledge and revel in the deliciousness that is New Mexican food. That, however, might soon change—courtesy of Ursula in Crown Heights. Opened by chef Eric See in the middle of the pandemic—on September 30, 2020, to be precise—the New Mexican cafe is a tiny spot that dishes out an ex...
The Atlantic’s Amanda Mull, an astute observer of modern life who writes about everything from pandemic-related restaurant guidelines to the difference between feeling safe and being safe, tweeted the following bit of gastronomic romanticism in late January: “Waited a little over an hour outside in line in a wind chill of like 30 this morning to get a very trendy breakfast burrito and somehow the burrito did end up being so good that I am not even mad about it.” The venue in question, burrito connoisseurs will instantly know, was Ursula, chef Eric See’s takeout spot famous for flour ...