I enjoyed Cookshop and when I saw the owners were opening a new spot in the Village, Hundred Acres, I decided to give it a try: the whole front opens onto Macdougal on nice days like today; wooden chairs inlaid with dark brown leather; huge onion-shaped white paper lamps. Each marble tabletop is initially set with a candle and a tiny wooden bowl of salt. All ingredients are locally sourced and most entrees purposely hover in the $20 range. I had the Tamworth pork and wild nettles sausage (juicy!) on a bed of fava and cannellini bean rarou (bland!). I don’t remember what our cocktails were, but they were tequila-something-or-other refreshing. Soundtrack included “Go it Alone”" by Beck, “D’Yer Mak’er” by Led Zeppelin, “Breakdown” by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers and “Bittersweet Symphony” by The Verve. The place hasn’t even been open a week so it seems they’re still ironing-out some details: you have to walk through the servers’ station (and a clot of chatting servers) to get to the stairway leading to the restrooms downstairs where the taps are labeled in French but the restrooms themselves are labeled with handwritten cards taped to the doors. I’d return.

Hundred Acres

• 38 Macdougal St.
• (212) 475-7500
• Meal 33 of 52: sausage ($15).