- Soho, West Village, Chelsea locations
- South African-Mediterranean kitchen
- All-day, brunch through dinner
- Counter and dining room
Jack's Wife Freda opened on Lafayette in 2012 and has held the all-day café format across three Manhattan rooms without modification — the green shakshuka, the rosewater waffle, the peri-peri chicken, the South African-Mediterranean register that has remained the city's most copied. The format is the most consistent downtown brunch and the morning queue is the verification.
Take the counter at ten on a weekday, the green shakshuka, the rosewater waffle, the morning juice. The address is the right answer for the brunch that wants the original of a format every other room is now copying.
The brunch that started the format.
