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It's a quarter after one, you're a little drunk and you need food now.

POSTED: Wednesday, October 27, 2010, 6:24 PM

Filed Under: Dealage | Food News

Courtesy of Barbuzzo

Safran (left) and Turney

How many times have you found yourself outside some bar, some night, on the descending end of a buzz, starving? Too sober to house a basket of carbs. Too lubricated to just go home and cook an omelette. Once upon a time, late-night dining meant Chinatown or a diner, but lately local restaurants are stepping up their after-hours game. At Valerie Safran and Marcie Turney's new Medi spot Barbuzzo (110 S. 13th St.), join servers fresh off their shifts at the dove-gray marble bar for a selection of $10 late-night bites offered Sunday through Thursday from 10:30 p.m. to midnight. They'll change frequently, but the current starting line-up includes Neapolitan pizza, house-ground beef burger, seasonal veggie board and a "pasta fresca" of Turney's choosing. (Drinkage include $3 drafts, $4 glasses of sangria and $5 glasses of wine.) Further south, Fifth and Bainbridge's Adsum (read the official review) is an incubator of after-hours action, luring in the 'toxed and hungry with promises of malt-vinegar popcorn and sunchoke chips, $3 pulled pork sliders, $6 guanciale-and-caramelized-fennel flatbread washed down with $3 cans of Narragansett, Sly Fox and 21st Amendment. Follow their Twitter account and you'll never be subjected to sub-par late-night eats again.

danya

Posted 2010-10-27 14:47:23

Neither of those places will help you at quarter past one, however...

Posted by Adam Erace @ 6:24 PM Permalink | Post a comment

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