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Jim Mamary and Alan Harding Consider Their Brooklyn Empire
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Jim Mamary and Alan Harding Consider Their Brooklyn Empire And to think, it all began at Patois.Photo: Jonathan BourlandThe Times today profiled Jim Mamary and Alan Harding, the duo who brought Brooklyn such middlebrow standards as Patois, Pacifico, Pomme De Terre, Gowanus Yacht Club, Sweetwater, and a dozen other restaurants. This is one Brooklyn historians should file away, because, inevitably, it’s a history of Brooklyn over the last eleven years. The restaurateurs have gravitated toward run-down areas, including Smith Street, when Patois opened in 1997, and Newkirk Avenue, where they recently opened Pomme De Terre.
