La Bouillabaisse, the small red brick restaurant with a neon lobster hanging in the front window and pitted across the street from the monolithic Red Hook IKEA, had a soft opening on Friday night. Regular hours commence later this week. Like a Neil Diamond set list, the menu is an intentionally predictable group of standards, like poached pear with gorgonzola, and bowls of garlicky bouillabaisse. In fact, it’s an exact facsimile of the menu Ganic......

La Bouillabaisse: That new French bistro in Red Hook, across the street from IKEA and connected to Annabelle's bar (formerly Lillie’s), has just opened. As reported back in June, the restaurant is the baby of Neil Ganic, who won a following through previous iterations of Bouillabaisse on Atlantic Avenue in the ‘90s. Besides serving the bar crowd next door and in the backyard, Ganic’s menu features his old signature dishes like a poached-pear–and–blue-cheese salad, according......

Red Hook residents who used to party at Lillie’s bar on Beard Street may be surprised to discover that right next door to the decadent nightspot was an elegant restaurant waiting to be born. What was previously storage space has been thoroughly overhauled into a French bistro called La Bouillabaisse, which owner Neil Ganic (Petite Crevette) hopes to have running in time for the June 18th grand opening of IKEA, conveniently located across the street.......