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SNEAK PEEK: Inside SweetWolf's

SweetWolf's, a soon-to-open restaurant on Sixth Avenue and 12th Street, built its menu from the community's suggestions on Facebook.

SweetWolf's, a restaurant that is slated to open any day now on Sixth Avenue, by asking future patrons to post menu ideas on their Facebook page  this summer.

Finally, cultivated from the ideas posted on the restaurant’s Facebook wall and tweaked with their own taste, the menu is set.

Although the owners, Tim Judge (the former manager of ) and Eric Wolf, are keeping it a secret until the soft opening, they did let Patch in on a little secret.

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Four items below will be on the menu:

  • Smoked bacon tempura fried in duck fat with house made pickles
  • Waygu beef burger with sweet chili, Jameson onions and aged Gouda cheese
  • Lobster mac and cheese with quinoa pasta (gluten free) 
  • Clams in the wood-burning brick oven

Wolf and Judge said that the menu will revolve around “classic American cuisine” cooked in a wood-burning brick oven. It will also be vegan, vegetarian, and Gluten-free friendly, but will also boast American staples like steaks and burgers.

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Food that did not make the fixed menu will appear as specials. There will be three to four specials a night.

An item that the owners have promised since the beginning, Belgian fries cooked in duck fat, will also be served.

During Saturday’s snowstorm, Patch stopped by to see the new digs, which is between 12th and 13th streets, and is almost complete.

There will be 40 to 45 seats and about half of them will be communal style. They have two 10-foot long tables with a 20-foot long mahogany banquet along one wall in order to push the community vibe of the restaurant.

At these tables they will serve appetizers for patrons who “scoot” over to make room for a newcomer. Wolf likes to call this the “scoot factor.”

The walls are exposed brick, the bar’s surface is copper topped with epoxy, the lights are Edison bulbs and a chandelier hangs near the front door, which was in Wolf’s home for 35 years.  

There is a flat screen TV behind the bar, but it will be hidden behind a chalkboard most of the time. The chalkboard is attached to a pulley and can be taken down when there is a special game that patrons want to see.

They have 8 beer taps and will also serve coffee by Forty Weight Coffee Roasters. 

The kitchen will be enclosed by frosted glass, but it will be transparent enough for diners to see the brick oven, which was built by a local mason.  

The soft opening is not set yet, but the community members who submitted items for the menu on Facebook will be invited.

“We look forward to opening a neighborhood place and be part of the community,” Judge said. 


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