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Bushwick Comfort Food Restaurant and Bar Receives Top 20 Ranked NYC Restaurants on Yelp

Husband and wife duo want to bring a communal space to Knickerbocker Avenue.

Bushwick Comfort Food Restaurant and Bar Receives Top 20 Ranked NYC Restaurants on Yelp

Bushwick Comfort Food Restaurant and Bar Receives Top 20 Ranked NYC Restaurants on Yelp

Husband and wife duo want to bring a communal space to Knickerbocker Avenue.

Bushwick Comfort Food Restaurant and Bar Receives Top 20 Ranked NYC Restaurants on Yelp

Rona Davis had a dream and left her dusty job as some kind of assistant in the city to pursue it. The child of Guyanese immigrants, Davis is a lifetime striver and sits pleasantly, amicially inside her debut creation: a now year-old, 60-seat bistro on Knickerbocker Avenue called, with relieving frankness, 191 Knickerbocker. It is, perhaps, this side of Bushwick’s only real major thoroughfare. The restaurant is situated a few blocks shy of Maria Hernandez Park, a little past the flurrying bustle of discount retailers and closer to the rarely occupied record store that also sells graphic novels.

The food comes courtesy of her business partner, husband and kitchen chief, the pleasant Jesse Davis, who is serious about food but permanently relaxed. The dream of Rona and Jesse…

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