Jefferson Review

February 06, 2003 Finally, some West Village love... We have a soft spot for West 10th from the year we lived near its intersection with Bleecker, and we always enjoyed the strange little dining spot Cafe Asean (W. 10th @ 6th Ave.), which serves affordable Asian-influenced cuisine in a casual, low-key setting. A few months back, the owners of Asean opened up another restaurant two doors down called Jefferson that's Asean's mirror image: sleek, hip and expensive. Ate there last night. Conclusion? Not a bad show, especially if you like Asian-influenced cuisine cross-polinated with American fare. But we'd go back to Asean before hitting Jefferson again. (Random shoutout to old fave Thali just around the corner, one of the coolest Indian hole-in-the-walls in NYC.)