This Canadian-inspired restaurant in Greenpoint restaurant comes courtesy of Aidan O’Neal and Jake Leiber, who met while working in the kitchen at Cafe Altro Paradiso.

Now they’ve teamed up with Brooklyn restaurateur Josh Cohen to relaunch Jimmy’s Diner as Chez Ma Tante. Canadians will recognize the name: it’s O’Neal’s tribute to a legendary hot-dog-and-French-fry shack in Montreal, where he lived before moved to New York. While there are dogs at lunch, the dinner menu is more refined. The menu is broken into categories for raw and cooked shellfish, charcuterie, salads and vegetables and mains. There are dishes like marinated mussels and clams, country pâté and skate wing. Desserts include rhubarb custard tart and a sorbet with Polish vodka.

Ideal For

A comforting meal in Greenpoint

Signature Dishes

Pebbled salmon tartare cured with maple syrup and gin, grilled veal steaks paired with creamy, corpulent butter beans, fans of skate wing over sabayon and leeks, and wagyu short rib steak, teamed with wedge-style frites and prune-anchovy ketchup.

Signature Drinks

Locally distilled liquor finds its way into classic cocktails like an Owney’s-rum daiquiri and a Dorothy Parker-gin negroni.