Cute and cozy bar with light bites; perfect spot for a date or small group of friends. Servers were friendly and accommodating. Their cocktail menu looks great, but I enjoyed the Pitt Nat they had by the glass
A M
Quality food and great drinks in a cozy atmosphere, by one of the best restaurant owners in Brooklyn.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Katharina Klee
Delicious and a gorgeous crew made us feel at home.
Lauren Hobbs
Absolutely delicious and unique — the gin/coconut cocktail was so interesting, not too sweet. Raw fish appetizer and chicken entree were both awesome. Will be back!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Julia Kim
Fantastic food and drink in a fun cozy atmosphere! Wonderful Korean chef and creative, ever-changing menu. Highly recommend a visit to Achilles
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Patrick No
Wow! Truly wow’d by this place. New chef Sunny is doing something really great here. The food program is wonderful, we had the Hwe, Spicy Tuna Hand Rolls, and Mochi Cake. The hand rolls are great, tuna delicious! $9 each, so not cheap but definitely a tasty bite. The Hwe was extremely delicious, think of it as Korean poke. The lemon gochujang was very nice, and not overpoweringly spicy. It had a really nice crunch factor as well, everything was definitely well thought out in the dish. We also got their dessert which was told to us by our server, who was great BTW. It was so good!Food fantastic, wine fantastic, service fantastic, music fantastic. I will be back here soon.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Andrea DiCastro
What a great vibe! Met a friend here for a couple drinks and food. Local vibe where they bring in rotating guest chefs for the food.The menu was Korean and it was all delicious. The cocktails were also inventive and tasty. The staff were so nice!Cost was not cheap but the quality was good. I would definitely go back here if I am around the area.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Alice Delaoustre
Excellent dishes to share. Very good service.Nice setting but very noisy.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
midnightofwhite
One of my favorite bars in the entire world for a cozy night of drinking on a cold winter’s eve.
When we arrived for our reservation, on a Saturday night, it was packed and bustling. There were no tables! How would this be possible? "I'll have your table momentarily," the hostess said to us, and just by her assured tone and the look on her face, it was instantly apparent we would be just fine and this was a very well-run establishment.Indeed it was. After a short stop at a bar table to look over the menu, the restaurant moved as if in a ballet, and seated us a in a comfy table in a corner. Everything was fabulous. Everything. The servers, the vibe, the drinks, the food.Achilles Heel is such a gorgeous space, very old Brooklyn, and I feel there are so few of these types of places left. I got hooked on these very intensely flavored gibsons. I asked what was in them exactly. Not content to know only half the details, the server came back, after consulting with the bartender, with an interesting explanation that the base gin was actually house-infused with garlic and leeks. YUM.The food is great, served & plated expertly. I even loved how the omniscient She Wolf sourdough was served. The now Asian-inflected menu is worth exploring and salivating over. The chicken was a home run, but don't sleep on those rice cakes either, it was all just so good.I'd been to AH a million times on lazy Saturday afternoons, but it had been a while since we'd been back, and this was our first dinner. I was kind of blown away? We'll be back soon, and that's the best compliment I can give the team here. Highly recommended.
Ryan M (Ryan)
I'm not a cocktail expert but I enjoyed my "Street Legal" drink here. My date who is more of a critic than I, did not enjoy theirs but I thought it was adequate. In both cases there was plenty of alcohol and I think the drinks are designed to make that more palatable with strong herbal flavors but my date was expecting something lighter and more fruity from their order.Service was great, speedy and attentive which was refreshing after many hostile experiences recently. I thought the atmosphere, completed by a roaring fireplace, was magnificent.Cost was a little high for me but I imagine is typical for greenpoint. No comment on the food; my date wanted out before I could even find out if there was such a thing.Would recommend but be prepared for powerful drinks (in more than one way) and a chunky but worthwhile bill at the end.
Atmosphere: 5
Service: 5
Bill Brooks
Best bar in
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Zipeng Zhu
Fun place ~ Unexpectedly Korean spot in Greenpoint. Great mocktails and personally love the rice cake.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
Shane Cobalt
This was one of my favorite restaurants. Everything used to be spectacular and I learned to trust the restaurant even if the menu turned me off a bit. They consistently surprised and proved my sensibilities wrong...Until this last visit. The menu is now largely Korean inspired, which is great and I was hoping for bold flavors with strong spice.The menu wasn't terribly interesting but that's okay, Achilles is known to wow me when the words do not. Sadly the opposite happened. Every dish felt amateurish. A handful of potato chips on top of a veggie slathered mackerel with heavy tomato notes. The attempt at adding crunch just made it unpleasant to eat. The flavor was one blah note, the chips for textural crunch, and the buried oily mackerel just wasn't good or fun to eat.The braised chicken was similarly muddled for flavors. Certainly the meat fell off the bone but the butchering of the bird left the back in which when served over a bed of croutons also made this dish tedious and unpleasant to eat. Did I just bite a crouton or a spine? That was a question I had to ask myself more than once.Overall the technique wasn't there. The finesse wasn't there. This was a favorite place to be delighted by unexpected elevation. Now it seems to be a monotonous flavor note with nothing worthwhile to highlight as worth your time or taste buds.
Cute and cozy bar with light bites; perfect spot for a date or small group of friends. Servers were friendly and accommodating. Their cocktail menu looks great, but I enjoyed the Pitt Nat they had by the glass
Quality food and great drinks in a cozy atmosphere, by one of the best restaurant owners in Brooklyn.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Delicious and a gorgeous crew made us feel at home.
Absolutely delicious and unique — the gin/coconut cocktail was so interesting, not too sweet. Raw fish appetizer and chicken entree were both awesome. Will be back!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Fantastic food and drink in a fun cozy atmosphere! Wonderful Korean chef and creative, ever-changing menu. Highly recommend a visit to Achilles
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Wow! Truly wow’d by this place. New chef Sunny is doing something really great here. The food program is wonderful, we had the Hwe, Spicy Tuna Hand Rolls, and Mochi Cake. The hand rolls are great, tuna delicious! $9 each, so not cheap but definitely a tasty bite. The Hwe was extremely delicious, think of it as Korean poke. The lemon gochujang was very nice, and not overpoweringly spicy. It had a really nice crunch factor as well, everything was definitely well thought out in the dish. We also got their dessert which was told to us by our server, who was great BTW. It was so good!Food fantastic, wine fantastic, service fantastic, music fantastic. I will be back here soon.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
What a great vibe! Met a friend here for a couple drinks and food. Local vibe where they bring in rotating guest chefs for the food.The menu was Korean and it was all delicious. The cocktails were also inventive and tasty. The staff were so nice!Cost was not cheap but the quality was good. I would definitely go back here if I am around the area.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Excellent dishes to share. Very good service.Nice setting but very noisy.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
One of my favorite bars in the entire world for a cozy night of drinking on a cold winter’s eve.
Atmosphere: 5
I love this
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Restaurantji Recommends
When we arrived for our reservation, on a Saturday night, it was packed and bustling. There were no tables! How would this be possible? "I'll have your table momentarily," the hostess said to us, and just by her assured tone and the look on her face, it was instantly apparent we would be just fine and this was a very well-run establishment.Indeed it was. After a short stop at a bar table to look over the menu, the restaurant moved as if in a ballet, and seated us a in a comfy table in a corner. Everything was fabulous. Everything. The servers, the vibe, the drinks, the food.Achilles Heel is such a gorgeous space, very old Brooklyn, and I feel there are so few of these types of places left. I got hooked on these very intensely flavored gibsons. I asked what was in them exactly. Not content to know only half the details, the server came back, after consulting with the bartender, with an interesting explanation that the base gin was actually house-infused with garlic and leeks. YUM.The food is great, served & plated expertly. I even loved how the omniscient She Wolf sourdough was served. The now Asian-inflected menu is worth exploring and salivating over. The chicken was a home run, but don't sleep on those rice cakes either, it was all just so good.I'd been to AH a million times on lazy Saturday afternoons, but it had been a while since we'd been back, and this was our first dinner. I was kind of blown away? We'll be back soon, and that's the best compliment I can give the team here. Highly recommended.
I'm not a cocktail expert but I enjoyed my "Street Legal" drink here. My date who is more of a critic than I, did not enjoy theirs but I thought it was adequate. In both cases there was plenty of alcohol and I think the drinks are designed to make that more palatable with strong herbal flavors but my date was expecting something lighter and more fruity from their order.Service was great, speedy and attentive which was refreshing after many hostile experiences recently. I thought the atmosphere, completed by a roaring fireplace, was magnificent.Cost was a little high for me but I imagine is typical for greenpoint. No comment on the food; my date wanted out before I could even find out if there was such a thing.Would recommend but be prepared for powerful drinks (in more than one way) and a chunky but worthwhile bill at the end.
Atmosphere: 5
Service: 5
Best bar in
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Fun place ~ Unexpectedly Korean spot in Greenpoint. Great mocktails and personally love the rice cake.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
This was one of my favorite restaurants. Everything used to be spectacular and I learned to trust the restaurant even if the menu turned me off a bit. They consistently surprised and proved my sensibilities wrong...Until this last visit. The menu is now largely Korean inspired, which is great and I was hoping for bold flavors with strong spice.The menu wasn't terribly interesting but that's okay, Achilles is known to wow me when the words do not. Sadly the opposite happened. Every dish felt amateurish. A handful of potato chips on top of a veggie slathered mackerel with heavy tomato notes. The attempt at adding crunch just made it unpleasant to eat. The flavor was one blah note, the chips for textural crunch, and the buried oily mackerel just wasn't good or fun to eat.The braised chicken was similarly muddled for flavors. Certainly the meat fell off the bone but the butchering of the bird left the back in which when served over a bed of croutons also made this dish tedious and unpleasant to eat. Did I just bite a crouton or a spine? That was a question I had to ask myself more than once.Overall the technique wasn't there. The finesse wasn't there. This was a favorite place to be delighted by unexpected elevation. Now it seems to be a monotonous flavor note with nothing worthwhile to highlight as worth your time or taste buds.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 1
Service: 4