(212) 219-0666

120 Hudson St (Hubert Street)
New York, NY 10013 40.7197 -74.0083

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Neighborhoods: Tribeca, Downtown

www.bubbys.com

Hours:

Daily 24 Hours

Price:

$$$

Last updated 1.24.11

Category:

Restaurants, Barbecue Restaurants

Payment Methods:

American Express, Visa, Discover, Diners Club, MasterCard

Restaurant Special Features:

Family-Friendly Dining, Brunch

Cuisine:

Traditional American

What People Are Saying About Bubby's

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The Scene – You may not recognize him with his clothes on but, yes, that probably is Harvey Keitel at the next table. Bubby's offers just the kind of clean, healthful cooking that should appeal to the method actor looking to shed a few pounds before his next skinflick. A snack canteen for nearby Miramax-ers during the week, it's overrun by uptowners at weekend brunchtime. – – The Food – The cuisine has the same kind of stylish, determinedly casual feel as the decor. You can stick to the tasty sandwiches or order up more substantial fare (some think the pies alone make…

ambiance
100.0% positive
  1. Yes, the decor is adorable- you will feel like you stopped at a charming bed and breakfast while driving through the countryside.
  2. Sometimes you go to a friend's country place and they seem to have everything -- atmosphere, the right food, good portions.
  3. Both the atmosphere and the eats are consistent, cozy, comfortable.
  4. Usual wait on weekends is about 45 minutes as its very popular with local twentysomethings, celebrity sightings are common, relaxed atmosphere, child friendly as well.
  5. Happy farmhouse decor, complete with groups of out-of-towner girls who think everything is one big S&theCity episode.
  6. Bubby's is best at lunch and brunch, and the bright open space provides the perfect ambiance for a relaxing meal!
dessert
85.0% positive
  1. Food was mediocre, bloody mary was below-average, pie was great.
  2. wouldn't return -- they do have good pie, but only when haven't run out.
  3. Hands down the best pie we ever had.
  4. The sour cream pancakes were out of this world and I would highly recommend the cheese grits as a side.
  5. Bubby's consistently turns out good food: the breakfast is excellent with lots of great choices; their pies are the best in the city, maybe in the country; they make their own ice cream (the buttermilk ice cream is delicious).
  6. the desserts are pretty good.
  7. ps: the pie is still good though
  8. If your focus has changed from people who liked your bbq and pie that have kids to mothers and crayon toteing 3 yrs.
  9. Not that you want dessert to wrap up a syrup topped bacon filled start to a day, but the pies and cakes are delish!
  10. The tables outside wobbled, the biscuit (I think thats what it was, either that or left over over-baked pie dough) was inedible.
drinks
60.0% positive
  1. We had horrible service and had to prompt the waitress for everything from drinks, to bread to our check.
  2. wouldn't say Bubby's will blow you out of the water, but they provide a solid bunch served with good coffee.
  3. There are great drinks and baked goods all under one roof!
  4. The bad coffee was a harbinger of things to come.
  5. Food is good, staff is friendly but speed of service is too painful except for drink cocktails at the bar.
food quality
68.33000183105469% positive
  1. Are now ridiculously overpriced post-coital eggs.
  2. We had horrible service and had to prompt the waitress for everything from drinks, to bread to our check.
  3. The service was fine, but if you're actually looking for good food, stay away.
  4. Overall it was a good meal but I wouldn't want to go there again as it would have been boring.
  5. Dang good food
  6. Their breakfast special was delicious and the service was great!
  7. The food was good, not great, but pretty good.
  8. Bubby's is best at lunch and brunch, and the bright open space provides the perfect ambiance for a relaxing meal!
  9. We had to wait forever to get in, the place was way too loud and crowded, the grits were nasty, the rest of the food was horrible, the water had stuff floating in it, and it was WAY overpriced!
  10. don't mind paying high prices for good food, but this was not even close.
  11. Both times I have been to Bubby's for brunch the food was cold, flavorless, and the condiments non-existent.
  12. The bacon was nice but a bit too fatty.
  13. Not everything on the menu is tasty but they do make some dishes well.
  14. highly overpriced post-coital eggs.
  15. The fresh squeezed OJ was delicious though!
  16. My husband and I were placed in the farthest corner of the restaurant, practically INSIDE the little side room for the dirty dishes, squeezed between a constantly swinging door and a wall.
  17. The menu is great and is the only place that I have eaten where the food is as good as I can cook at home.
  18. The food was good, but nothing to write home about.
  19. The menu is full of yummy comfort food and the bloody mary's are GREAT.
  20. absolute best burger in town.
  21. The food is way overpriced and those two biscuits they bring out before breakfast were harder than rocks.
  22. The food is so bad that we didn't even want to try the pies which I'm reading in other review is terrfic.
  23. The food is way overpriced and just not that good(apart from the amazing matzoh ball soup).
  24. The service was disjointed, the food was sub-par (I agree with previous reviewer's comment on the biscuits), and the prices were ridiculous ($78 for three to eat breakfast!)
  25. Loud, overpriced, slow - average food - nothing spectacular.
  26. The food was mediocre.
  27. Eggs were over done, toast was cold.
  28. The service is friendly and the food is real down-home good.
  29. The eggs and homefries were amazing!
  30. The service was awful, the food mediocre at best (and that was the food that actually arrived - one entree arrived a good half hour after the others).
  31. It was great, food was excellent, they did the best Bloody Mary I've had in my 17 years of being old enough to order one!
  32. Sometimes you go to a friend's country place and they seem to have everything -- atmosphere, the right food, good portions.
  33. Best barbecue in Manhattan and best side dishes anywhere!
  34. For lunch, the Garlic burger with brie cheese is a good bet.
  35. Mac & cheese is nothing to write home about; the beet salad is boring, mostly lettuce; tuna sandwhich - boring, mostly mayo; the french fries looked re-fried and were cold; the "excellent" pork sandwich came on one of those supermarket hot-dog buns.
  36. Biscuits are good and flakey, with the delicious strawberry jam on the table, and the food is good, but overpriced.
  37. The food is great.
  38. The perfect restaurant for kids and adults alike, even at the busiest times the food is always superb.
  39. Great food, excellent breakfast and comfort food if you are staying in the tribeca/soho area.
  40. It wasnt a total wash you still have the best potato chips in town.
  41. Shamelessly overpriced, serving tasteless food
  42. Overrated, bad food screaming kids
  43. Not that you want dessert to wrap up a syrup topped bacon filled start to a day, but the pies and cakes are delish!
  44. Everytime I go there I have great food, fast service and an A-List celebrity sighting.
  45. Yes, they occasionally have spectacular reuben sandwiches and good bacon, but really, really, I have HAD it.
  46. If your focus has changed from people who liked your bbq and pie that have kids to mothers and crayon toteing 3 yrs.
  47. Overall Good meal
  48. It's the best comfort food in the world and Bubby's makes a good one.
  49. Eggs were perfectly cooked and everything was fresh and tasty!
  50. loooooved it, amazing food, can have a light or heavy breakfast with the huge selection on the gigantic menu.
  51. The food was bland, the service was terrible.
  52. had a great time and a great meal but found that the prices on everything were a few dollars more than most other well known brunch spots.
  53. have to say the food was pretty good, and the "Fair Trade Coffee" as well.
  54. breath of fresh air from the normal NYC bling-bling-bars.
  55. olds who need a Salad and a happy meal you should have warned me before I sat down.
  56. The food was delicious and the portions were huge!
  57. Bubby's consistently turns out good food: the breakfast is excellent with lots of great choices; their pies are the best in the city, maybe in the country; they make their own ice cream (the buttermilk ice cream is delicious).
  58. Perhaps it's because it is the only place in Tribeca to get a quick, cheap, meal but still feel like your part of the cool crowd because, hey, it's Bubbys.
menu variety
83.33000183105469% positive
  1. Once you are (finally) seated, you will be treated to attentive service and some of the best brunch selections in the city.
  2. loooooved it, amazing food, can have a light or heavy breakfast with the huge selection on the gigantic menu.
  3. The menu is great and is the only place that I have eaten where the food is as good as I can cook at home.
  4. Bubby's biscuits make it worth a wait on weekends for their excellent brunch selections.
  5. Not everything on the menu is tasty but they do make some dishes well.
  6. The variety and value of the many menu offerings is always amazing.
  7. The menu is full of yummy comfort food and the bloody mary's are GREAT.
  8. Bubby's consistently turns out good food: the breakfast is excellent with lots of great choices; their pies are the best in the city, maybe in the country; they make their own ice cream (the buttermilk ice cream is delicious).
overall
100.0% positive
  1. This is a great place.
  2. Try at it, a great place to crash after 5 hurs of shopping!
  3. The menu is great and is the only place that I have eaten where the food is as good as I can cook at home.
  4. In my opinion (perhaps I'm partial because I've been going there for about 5 years) it is the best casual restaurant in Tribeca.
  5. Then I believe that I have the best place possib.
  6. Definitely a great place to come with friends and family!
  7. Bubby's is a great place to have dinner/lunch/brunch with a group or just two people.
return potential
100.0% positive
  1. wouldn't return -- they do have good pie, but only when haven't run out.
  2. Overall it was a good meal but I wouldn't want to go there again as it would have been boring.
service
77.58999824523926% positive
  1. The service was awful, the food mediocre at best (and that was the food that actually arrived - one entree arrived a good half hour after the others).
  2. The staff was friendly.
  3. The table service was horrible.
  4. The worst service you can imagine magnified by ten.
  5. In a city with as many wonderful restaurants as New York, it is beyond me why so many people rave about this place.
  6. The service was fine, but if you're actually looking for good food, stay away.
  7. Everytime I go there I have great food, fast service and an A-List celebrity sighting.
  8. Food is good, staff is friendly but speed of service is too painful except for drink cocktails at the bar.
  9. Decent place, subpar service and overpriced.
  10. Their breakfast special was delicious and the service was great!
  11. live two blocks away and I see more famous people on the street.
  12. It's pretty shabby, with a few exceptions for some great servers that shine among those that are really sub-par.
  13. The price is reasonable and the service is very go.
  14. The wait staff are very nice and the dining area is airy.
  15. We had horrible service and had to prompt the waitress for everything from drinks, to bread to our check.
  16. The food was bland, the service was terrible.
  17. Bubby's is a great place to have dinner/lunch/brunch with a group or just two people.
  18. There are few truly baby/family friendly places in the downtown area, and Bubby's in one of them.
  19. Great service and reasonable prices.
  20. Listen carefully to your server as he or she provides the description of the specials:the creativity is endless and the taste is always wonderful.
  21. Usual wait on weekends is about 45 minutes as its very popular with local twentysomethings, celebrity sightings are common, relaxed atmosphere, child friendly as well.
  22. The service is friendly and the food is real down-home good.
  23. Want a friendly environment?
  24. The actual place was friendly but a little cramped.
  25. This place is only good for B-list celeb spotting and for people with not taste buds and being deafened by screaming kids.
  26. If your focus has changed from people who liked your bbq and pie that have kids to mothers and crayon toteing 3 yrs.
  27. Once you are (finally) seated, you will be treated to attentive service and some of the best brunch selections in the city.
  28. My friendly bartender slaps a can of PBR in front of me even before i sit down!
  29. The service was disjointed, the food was sub-par (I agree with previous reviewer's comment on the biscuits), and the prices were ridiculous ($78 for three to eat breakfast!)
value
59.58000183105469% positive
  1. Shamelessly overpriced, serving tasteless food
  2. Perhaps it's because it is the only place in Tribeca to get a quick, cheap, meal but still feel like your part of the cool crowd because, hey, it's Bubbys.
  3. The variety and value of the many menu offerings is always amazing.
  4. Our breakfast was good, nice big portions, but a little overpriced if you ask me.
  5. loooooved it, amazing food, can have a light or heavy breakfast with the huge selection on the gigantic menu.
  6. The price is reasonable and the service is very go.
  7. The food is way overpriced and just not that good(apart from the amazing matzoh ball soup).
  8. Bubby's biscuits make it worth a wait on weekends for their excellent brunch selections.
  9. The food was delicious and the portions were huge!
  10. The service was disjointed, the food was sub-par (I agree with previous reviewer's comment on the biscuits), and the prices were ridiculous ($78 for three to eat breakfast!)
  11. Bubby's is a great value!
  12. Denny's serves a better Grand Slam breakfast--and at a quarter of the price (I paid $21 w/o tip for b-fast--I went back a second time, because the restaurant was highly touted and I thought the first bad experience was a fluke.
  13. The food is way overpriced and those two biscuits they bring out before breakfast were harder than rocks.
  14. Great service and reasonable prices.
  15. Decent place, subpar service and overpriced.
  16. Biscuits are good and flakey, with the delicious strawberry jam on the table, and the food is good, but overpriced.
  17. don't mind paying high prices for good food, but this was not even close.
  18. The prices were kinda expensive too!
  19. highly overpriced post-coital eggs.
  20. Sometimes you go to a friend's country place and they seem to have everything -- atmosphere, the right food, good portions.
  21. We had to wait forever to get in, the place was way too loud and crowded, the grits were nasty, the rest of the food was horrible, the water had stuff floating in it, and it was WAY overpriced!
  22. had a great time and a great meal but found that the prices on everything were a few dollars more than most other well known brunch spots.
  23. Loud, overpriced, slow - average food - nothing spectacular.
  24. Are now ridiculously overpriced post-coital eggs.
wait time
75.0% positive
  1. Perhaps it's because it is the only place in Tribeca to get a quick, cheap, meal but still feel like your part of the cool crowd because, hey, it's Bubbys.
  2. Usual wait on weekends is about 45 minutes as its very popular with local twentysomethings, celebrity sightings are common, relaxed atmosphere, child friendly as well.
  3. love the brunch here - especially the biscuits and cheese grits - but you have to get there before 11am, or the wait is heinously long.
  4. Loud, overpriced, slow - average food - nothing spectacular.
1 Star Rating: Poor

08/22/11

Never Again!!

by unit8246

I ate their on a trip to NYC. I, later, read an article on who the head chef was. Curtis Brown use to be a singer of one of the craziest rock bands out (not a good crazy). I saw him once play with his self and then wipe a guys head in the front row, then poured a beer on his head! He followed this up by trying to start a fight with everyone in the front row. He also cooked at this joint in Los Angeles and smoked weed in the back and was very rude to customers. I am disgusted that I ate food that his hands touched! And, by the way, it was way over priced for the type of food it is.

1 Star Rating: Poor

06/09/11

DO NOT WASTE YOUR HARD-EARNED MONEY!!

by mimimaloo2

How can a restaurant name Bubby's (Jewish term for grandmother) have it's menu literally packed with bacon and pork products?? Poor Bubby is spinning in her grave. Even the over-rated freeking biscuits have bacon fat in them, for christ's sake!

It looks as if they got a chef or management that thought, wow, lets make the menu southern comfort food... and then got a cook who is from Jersey to cook it. My friend this stuff is simply awful! My husband had the meatloaf with collard greens. He said the food was so greasy he could not eat it. I ordered fried chicken, green beans and mac/cheese (only veggies that did not contain bacon or pork fat.). If you guys wanna go southern, then at least learn to make the dishes. This was AWFUL! No one is the south puts bacon or pork fat in their dishes any more; it just ain't healthy to do anymore. The chicken was favourless and a greasy mess. No herbs, no spice... just greasy crunch... and EXTREMELY salty. They brag about brining (really called Koshering) the chicken; guess they don't do a second soaking in water, as you should before preparing to remove excess salt.

The atmosphere is so loud we could not have a conversation without shouting across the table. The beer was warm, so was the water they brought on a 95 degree day. When I asked for ice, they offered to get me a iced lemonade at 5 bucks (!!) a glass.

I know they have a captive audience down there in Tribeca. But I gotta tell you this place sucks so badly, I'd walk blocks in the 95 degree heat (or freezing cold) to find something else.

SMART restaurateurs, heed this and put up a good family restaurant in this area. You'll make a mint and Bubby's will be gone in a flash. No competition is their only edge... it sure isn't the food.

3 Star Rating: Average

11/06/09

A New York Institution

by NYC4ME

I have been brunching a Bubby's since it opened in 90'. The food is great. Both the atmosphere and the eats are consistent, cozy, comfortable. Brunch has become a bit of a scene and it can get a little crazy sometimes. There is always a line-up and tons of tourists and New York transplants. If you can stand being trampled at the bar by a loud family of six from Kansas - or getting bumped for Natalie Portman and friend - after you waited an hour for a table, then you're in for a treat. Once you are (finally) seated, you will be treated to attentive service and some of the best brunch selections in the city.

  • Pros: ::duh:: The Food - hello?
  • Cons: The crowds ::yuck::
1 Star Rating: Poor

05/04/09

It's Over For Me--No More Chances

by tadevosy

Over the years, I have developed a typical abused spouse syndrome towards this wretched brunch place. Every time I go there and get mistreated, I leave angry, swearing never to go back. Two weeks later, I hopelessly trudge back there for another take, and again, I storm out fuming and swearing it was the last time. Well, this time I have really, really had it. No more for me. I do not even know where to begin. The worst service you can imagine magnified by ten. Last time I went there on a Saturday morning, when the place was nearly empty. My husband and I were placed in the farthest corner of the restaurant, practically INSIDE the little side room for the dirty dishes, squeezed between a constantly swinging door and a wall. 35 weeks pregnant and rather huge, I asked the host if we could have a different, more comfortable table. His response? Well you know, we try to distribute the tables more evenly. The cups are habitually dirty. Getting bottled water is an impossible task. If you lose your knife, you better learn to cut with your teeth, because you ain't getting a new one. The home-fried potatoes are so overfried and burned, I think they recycle the ones from three weeks ago. My last dish there had two thick hairs on the bottom. The waitress didn't even offer to have it replaced. The bathrooms are a health violation. Yes, they occasionally have spectacular reuben sandwiches and good bacon, but really, really, I have HAD it.

  • Pros: Good bacon
  • Cons: Everything else
5 Star Rating: Highly Recommended

03/08/09

Great Brunch Spot!!

by amynewyork

I had been wanting to go to Bubby's for brunch for some time and am so glad I finally made it! The place was packed but our group of 6 was seated within 15 minutes. The food was delicious and the portions were huge! The mimosa had fresh squeezed orange juice and the bloody mary was spicy and seasoned perfectly. The sour cream pancakes were out of this world and I would highly recommend the cheese grits as a side. Will definitely be back again soon!

  • Pros: great food and great atmosphere
  • Cons: none! great spot!

The Details on Bubby's

Place Categories:

  • good comfort food
  • great actual place
  • overpriced average food
  • best pie
  • horrible table service
  • good meal
  • good nice big portions
  • not tasty everything
  • great subpar service
  • very best biscuits
  • wonderful perfect restaurant
  • excellent breakfast
  • bad experience
  • friendly wait staff
  • love brunch
  • not accessible bathrooms
  • worst eateries
  • excellent brunch selections
  • love cheese grits
  • love bubby
  • always amazing value
  • ridiculously overpriced postcoital eggs
  • full menu
  • reasonable prices
  • very best jam

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