{Chicken and waffles are still offered on Plush’s new, snack-focused menu.}
If you’ve visited Plush since late June, you may have noticed changes to its dining options. The Midtown entertainment venue has called an end to table service and replaced its full menu with minimal snack offerings.
“We are focusing on apps and small foods that go well with the lounge and music events,” owner Maebelle Reed said via email.
Plush opened on New Year’s Eve 2011 as an eclectic combination of a bar, a diner, a coffeehouse and a live music venue. Under the direction of executive chef David Zimmerman, the menu included a smorgasboard of scratch comfort foods for breakfast, lunch, dinner and late night. (We loved the smoked tomato and cracked pepper waffle so much we asked Zimmerman for the recipe.)
However, Zimmerman left Plush three months ago due to health reasons. Courtland Eiland, who worked with Zimmerman for many years, now helms the kitchen.
The new menu includes items like loaded fries and loaded nachos, wings, chicken and waffles, beef and veggie sliders, wraps and a Macken muffin, a muffin version of Plush’s Macken Cheese featuring cheddar and Colby. More Macken muffin flavors are slated to appear in the fall. While Zimmerman developed the recipes, Reed said the kitchen has “tweaked some of them for easier presentation.”
This article appears in Readers’ Choice 2014.