About The Restaurant

 

Perched on the corner of Court Street and Kane street in idyllic Cobble Hill, Watty & Meg first opened in May of 2009 and has become a neighborhood fixture. A culmination of Chef/Owner Sosie Hublitz's 25 year-long career in the restaurant industry, Watty & Meg is named after close friends and is an homage to the type of family relationship that grows between the dedicated people who work in her restaurant.

 

Watty & Meg serves New American food inspired by the variety of ingredients and ethnic influences that filter through Brooklyn. With an imaginative approach to local, seasonal and fresh ingredients, Watty & Meg offers a menu that strives to satisfy all types of diners.

 

Designed by Sosie Hublitz and John Kole of Hecho Inc., this 72 seat restaurant with two distinctive dining rooms and patio seating offers an intimate and elegant setting thanks to warm lighting, reclaimed oak church pews from Harlem and mahogany "bookstore" shelving. The blackboard is updated daily with specials from the kitchen, cheese plate and picnic plate offerings as well as current beers on tap.

 

About The People

 

Sosie Hublitz, Chef/Owner worked as an art director and set decorator before she started her career in the restaurant business. For the last 25 years she has combined her knack for designing a beautiful setting with her talent for composing vibrant, seasonally inspired dishes to create restaurants that easily become neighborhood favorites. Her illustrious career includes Millie's the famous Richmond hot-spot that continues to thrive and that New Yorkers are always fond of when they visit.

 

Chef Mary E McGrath has been working in restaurants since she was 18 years old with her first gig as a dishwasher and "salad girl" at Points East, a small restaurant in her hometown Westfield, Massachusetts. She attended New England Culinary Institute in Montpelier, Vermont where she earned an Associates in Science and Culinary Arts. In 1992 she moved to Louisiana to join the restaurant community of New Orleans where she worked at Mike's On The Avenue. In 1996 McGrath moved to New York where she worked with Anita Lo at Mirezi followed by three years at Manhattan's well-known Cafeteria in Chelsea where she became Executive Chef. After a leave of absence from New York City spent working in Cape Cod and the Berkshires, McGrath is happy to call Brooklyn home.

 

Ian Kita – Dining Room Manager, is a Brooklyn transplant, originally from Minneapolis. He attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison and received a Bachelor of Arts degrees in English literature and History; and is a twenty-year veteran of the restaurant business. Kita honed his management skills with the Minneapolis-based restaurant group, D'Amico and Partners, commanding the group's celebrated flagship, D'Amico Cucina. His New York City resume includes Spigolo, a New York Times two-star-rated restaurant, for which he was the general manager. Kita calls Carroll Gardens home and is happy to be a part of the management team at Watty and Meg.

 

Sharon Clark is the office manager and pastry chef in training at Watty & Meg. Originally from Western New York, she moved to Brooklyn in 2006 to pursue a BFA in poetry from Pratt Institute. With Watty & Meg since 2009, Sharon co-curated the monthly Blue Letter Reading Series, held in the restaurant's back room from February-September 2011, which was voted Best New Poetry Reading Series by The L Magazine.