{"id":347836,"date":"2025-11-01T11:13:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T11:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/347836\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T11:13:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T11:13:32","slug":"brooklyn-restaurant-jr-and-son-serves-reinvented-italian-american-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/347836\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Restaurant JR and Son Serves Reinvented Italian American Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jrandson.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JR &amp; Son<\/a> is a <a href=\"https:\/\/ny.eater.com\/2025\/5\/1\/24421799\/jr-and-son-opening-kelloggs-williamsburg-restaurant-patricia-vega\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reborn Brooklyn haunt<\/a> in Williamsburg. The space started as Italian supper club Charlie\u2019s in the 1930s, then became the JR and Son dive bar in the 1970s, and now, a polished Italian American restaurant and bar that still keeps its worn-in character with dim lighting and dark wood walls. That\u2019s in part thanks to a food menu run by chef <a href=\"https:\/\/ny.eater.com\/2025\/3\/11\/24382557\/junior-and-son-jr-and-son-patricia-vega-kelloggs-opening-relaunch-williamsburg-italian-restaurant\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Patricia Vega<\/a> (formerly of Thai Diner), who adds intriguing flavor depths to standard red sauce dishes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Snag one of the cozy booths, where you can study the walls crammed with old photos and vintage sports memorabilia (go Mets).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Pastry chef Amanda Perdomo turns the iconic rainbow cookie into a luxurious and beautiful slice of cake ($15). Bonus: Made with coconut sponge cake and layers of raspberry jam and dark chocolate ganache, it\u2019s completely vegan!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JR &amp; Son is a reborn Brooklyn haunt in Williamsburg. The space started as Italian supper club Charlie\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":347837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,141333,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-347836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dining-report","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkcity","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115474151042758860","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}