Ursula Brooklyn
Restaurant · Bedford-Stuyvesant
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387A Nostrand Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11216
Highlights
New Mexican-inspired cuisine, breakfast burritos & pastries
New Mexican-inspired cuisine, breakfast burritos & pastries
"At Ursula, restaurateur Eric See makes it a point to employ an all-LGBTQ+ team of cooks, servers, and hosts. Beyond its commitment to the community, this vibrant pink and turquoise New Mexican cafe in Bed-Stuy has won a cult following for its hash brown-stuffed breakfast burritos. Ursula has a few tables in the front dining room, and a long bar in the back overlooking an open kitchen, where you should linger at night over cheffy small plates like snap peas with pecan salsa macha." - kenny yang, carina finn koeppicus, bryan kim, neha talreja, nikko duren, hannah albertine
"A meal at Ursula is the closest you can get to New Mexican food in New York, with chile peppers and other ingredients imported directly from the Land of Enchantment. It’s open all day, serving sandwiches and their legendary hash brown-stuffed breakfast burritos until 2pm. At night, they switch over to small plates, like mushroom carnitas tamal and kale salad, and cocktails." - will hartman, bryan kim, willa moore, neha talreja
"Owner Eric See of a New Mexican restaurant known for breakfast burritos reports that breakfast accounts for “50 percent eggs. That’s basically what we sell.” While liquid-egg prices for burritos have been relatively stable, the cost of loose eggs from suppliers has swung dramatically: prices moved from $45 for 15 dozen eggs in September to $80 in December and to roughly $102–$170 more recently. “I’ve never seen the prices increase this quickly,” See says. So far the restaurant has been eating the cost, but with already-tight margins and a generally slow January, that’s difficult: “you can’t put market price [on the menu] like you can for a lobster or a raw seafood platter,” he says. Before the most recent jump, See bought extra eggs and stored the overage in friends’ walk-ins because of limited space, but cautions, “But I don’t have the money to buy enough for a month or two months.” When he has to restock at even-higher rates, “I’m going to have to see how that affects the food cost and how much of that I have to pass on,” he says. Prices already rose last year; See raised the price of a breakfast burrito from $12.50 to $13 — “Not enough to actually cover the inflation of all the food costs,” See added in an email." - Bettina Makalintal
"Exciting pop-up Kreung Cambodia is morphing into this new tiny restaurant in the original Ursula space helmed by Chef Chakriya Un, with the help of her family and partner. Bong will serve casual Cambodian dishes. Much of the restaurant’s hard-to-find ingredients, like fresh makrut limes and galangal, are grown in the family greenhouse in South Carolina." - Nadia Chaudhury
"You’ll find some of the best Filipino food in the city at pop-ups, but Patikim is one that we really wish would stay put. We have a new crush on every new picture of bbq pork and coconut cream they post, so we’ll keep chasing them down until they stick around in one spot. This Saturday, stop by their pop-up at Ursula for kare kare noodle salad, coconut cake, and more. Pre-order . Walk-in availability will be limited." - neha talreja
