Bobbique
70 West Main Street
Patchogue, New York 11772
(631) 447-7744
web: bobbique.com
hours: M-T 11:30a - 10p, F 11:30a - 11p, Sa 3p - 11p, Su 2p - 9p
Owner & Chef: Eric Rifkin
On the last Tuesday of each month, Bobbique hosts a Brewmaster Dinner
Series. Brewers or Brewery representatives attend these five course
dinners where the feature beers are paired with each course. Past beer dinners have featured celebrity brewers like Garrett Oliver
of Brooklyn Brewery.
Arrive at 6:30 pm to mingle and the Dinner will get started at around 7. The price is $40 per person and reservations are suggested.
Quick Reviews
Directions
Right across the street from the Brickhouse Brewery.
Review: August 11, 2006
Update: Many things have changed at Bobbique since I wrote this review. David Attoe has since ventured out on his own. You can find his new place just down Main Street in Patchogue. It's called Once & For All. Eric Rifkin, the owner and chef at Bobbique, still maintains an excellent selection of beers and has launched a series of Brewmaster Dinners where brewers come and tell participants about their beer and pair the beers with Eric's barbecue. (1/25/2008)
Bobbique (70 W. Main St.
Patchogue, New York) is a new barbecue restaurant just across the street
from the Brickhouse Brewery
in Patchogue. At the moment, Bobbique has 70 bottled beers to choose from,
about a dozen taps---yes, they pour multiple local beers---, and they have
two casks. On my first trip they had one cask serving Blue Point's ESB and
the other serving Captain Lawrence
Double IPA from Captain Lawrence Brewing Company in Pleasantville, New
York (which is what I drank since I never had it before). On my second
pilgrimage, Hop Back Summer Lightning
from the Hop Back Brewery in the UK
was the only cask selection since the Blue Point ESB had just run dry.
The cellarman's name is David and he
keeps an ever rotating stock of beers. What's really nice is that David
knows his beer. He's tasted everything he stocks and stocks it because he
likes it (except for two or three items for the less sophisticated beer
palate). David is currently drafting a booklet-sized document that will
be available for patrons of Bobbique. The document is a fully annotated
beer menu complete with tasting notes and a glossary of terms. David gave
me and sneak peek at the beer menu/guide and it's sure to help the
adventurous beer enthusiasts who find their way into Bobbique.
David is
from the UK so he stocks a lot of interesting beers from England that I
hadn't tasted before like Monkman's Slaughter
Ale from Cropton Brewery in North Yorkshire, Entire Butt English
Porter from Salopian Brewing Company in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, and Ridgeway IPA
from South Stoke, Oxfordshire (which is on tap).
The restaurant is decent too. They
serve an unostentatious menu of barbecue standards. The lunch portions
are sized appropriately so you don't accidentally hurt yourself while trying
to squeeze in a couple of beers. I've had the Pull Pork Sandwich and the
Fried Shrimp Poboy. I'd recommend both. My only complaint is that the
collard greens were sweetened---I prefer mine spicy. My wife tells me
that sweetened collard greens is the authentic way to serve them if you
are in the South.
This article was originally posted on A Good Beer Blog on August 11, 2006 as " Bobbique on Long Island".
