best-new-restaurants

Inside Trendy Brooklyn Restaurant Aska

Images from Brooklyn's Aska, Andrew Knowlton's pick for 2013's tenth best restaurant in America
Image may contain Plant Rug Food and Produce
Tuukka Koski / All About Everything

Earnest, unyielding, and outspoken, chef Fredrik Berselius is serving hyperlocal New Nordic food in his Brooklyn restaurant, Aska.

  • Image may contain Plant Rug Food and Produce
    Tuukka Koski / All About Everything
    1/7

    A chip made from pig's blood, topped with sea buckthorn jam.

  • Image may contain Car Transportation Vehicle Automobile Pedestrian Person Human Bicycle Bike Urban and Town
    Tuukka Koski / All About Everything
    2/7

    Kinfolk Studios, a gallery space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, houses Aska's kitchen and dining area.

  • Image may contain Human Person Outdoors Garden Grass Plant Yard and Nature
    Tuukka Koski / All About Everything
    3/7

    Berselius forages nearby.

  • Image may contain Plant Food Confectionery Sweets and Vegetable
    Tuukka Koski / All About Everything
    4/7

    Pickled onions, yarrow, and daylily pistils await placement.

  • Image may contain Plant and Food
    Tuukka Koski / All About Everything
    5/7

    A dish of cured duck heart, pickled unripe mulberries, wild sheep sorrel, and reduced sunchoke juice.

  • Image may contain Plant Pollen Food Egg Flower and Blossom
    Hasselblad H4D
    6/7

    Smoked pike with pickled onions, egg yolk, yarrow and soured milk.

  • Image may contain Human Person and Lamp
    7/7

    Berselius prepares squid with scallions and radishes.

Deputy Editor. Andrew has worked at Bon Appétit since, like, forever (2000 to be exact). He oversees the magazine's restaurant coverage, including the annual Hot 10 list, and writes the rather opinionated Foodist column that has run in the magazine since 2008. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and ... Read More
Explore Bon AppétitAskaThe Hot 10 2013