Cafe Mutton has quickly become a hot spot in Hudson. It is only open for breakfast and lunch except on Fridays, when it is dinner only, and that’s when we tried it. The dinner menu changes every week and there are usually some organ meats, which we love. Portions are quite large so I suggest not ordering too many dishes. We had 2 appetizers and 2 mains and it was more than we could finish.

Appetizers we had were pig’s feet and chorizo stew, brown bread topped with caramelized onions, cheese and pig’s ear mortadella. If they have this dish again I would ask for just a plate of the mortadella as it was the highlight for me. For mains we had smoked whitefish pie, which was enough for 2 by itself, and blood pudding on a bed of mashed potatoes, which was not bad but unfortunately rather one-note.

Overall, we enjoyed it very much. With a bottle of wine, tax and tip, the bill was $210.

https://www.cafemutton.com/menus/

This had been recommended by Indian friends some time ago, but I was hesitant because the menu is mostly vegetarian. As it happened, we were going to be in the neighborhood, and searching restaurants I found it would be convenient, so I took another look at the menu and saw enough meat and fish choices.

The prix-fixe menus are $88 for 3 courses and $98 for 4. 3 was more than enough food for us. The style is modern Indian, very creative and quite different from the typical Indian dishes we are used to.

We shared everything, including lamb dumplings, pork dumplings, rock shrimp, pickled pork ribs, chicken malai tikka and beef tenderloin. For accompaniments we picked smoked bacon kulcha and dal with naan.

Everything was so good I would consider trying some of the vegetarian choices next time. A bottle of a very good Riesling was $70, a high markup from retail, but we enjoyed it and the slight sweetness worked really well with the flavors of the food.

Service was absolutely flawless.

https://www.indianaccent.com/newyork

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