Long before Roberta's started churning out pizza toppings fresh from their Bushwick backyard, American Flatbread served up delicious, addictive organic pizzas made with locally-sourced goods in a little hippie haven in Vermont. They're now a very popular chainlet in that state (and ship frozen pizzas out all over the country), but NYers won't have to travel through the Green Mountains to try a fresh pie: they've installed a couple wood-burning clay ovens in Tribeca and opened up this week!
The first American Flatbread restaurant outside Vermont, the Tribeca location opened on Wednesday at 205 Hudson Street. The menu's got a whole bunch of classic Flatbread pies—the basic Medicine Wheel, made with organic tomato sauce, whole milk mozzarella ($11-$15) and New Vermont Sausage, made with humanely-raised pork and a house-made, nitrate-free maple-fennel sausage ($15-$20)—plus a couple local newbies like the TriBeCa Community Revolution Bread ($13-$18) topped with organic camelized onions and mushrooms. And while they're currently sticking with Vermont and Maine farms for fresh supplies, the New York outpost plans to team up with local producers when they start building a network here, so Flatbread cultists can look forward to a few upstate farm specials in the near future.
American Flatbread is located at 205 Hudson St at Canal St in Tribeca (212-776-1441, americanflatbread.com)
