Franklin Street Works, a contemporary art space and café in Stamford, has launched a new lunch and weekend brunch menu prepared by Chef Erin Emmett. The vibrant and seasonal menu highlights locally sourced ingredients and even fresh vegetables and herbs from FSW’s Backyard Garden. The café, which is an integral social component of Franklin Street Works’ mission as a forward thinking art space, ensures that the eating experience is as unique as the viewing experience.
Chef Emmett’s from-scratch menu includes signature sandwiches like the grilled sweet manchego pannini with fig jam and sopressata. For a snack or light lunch, toasts will be offered, including smashed avocado toast with lime and chili flakes. Salads include arugula, beet, and farro as well as a Southwestern cobb with black beans, jack cheese, avocado, bacon, roasted corn and chipolte lime vinaigrette.
Chef Emmett also brings her sweet side and background as a pastry chef to Franklin Street Works in the form of and her Sweet Pistachio baking company. Daily baked scones, muffins, hand pies, cookies, and her soon-to-be-famous house made granola will be offered. Sweet Pistachio will also feature its signature macaroons in such varieties as salted caramel, earl grey, and of course, pistachio.
Fair trade coffee by Brooklyn Roasting Company is a key highlight of the café’s new offerings. (We’ll add in their coffee is great. We’ve enjoyed it at their cafe in NYC.) Franklin Street Works baristas provide visitors with handcrafted espresso drinks in addition to a rotating daily drip coffee and a cold brew iced version. The café will continue to offer wine and regionally brewed craft beer.
Franklin Street Works will be opening for brunch from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm on Saturdays and Sundays beginning June 6, 2015. Brunch includes a quiche of the day, croissant bread pudding, roasted vegetable frittata, yogurt bowl with house made granola and Mimosas.
Franklin Street Works
41 Franklin
Street
Stamford, Connecticut
The art space and café are open to the public on Wednesday– Friday: 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm, Saturday, and Sunday: 8:00am 5:00pm. Franklin Street Works does not charge for admission during regular gallery hours.
