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A PHOENIX Eating-Out GuideKing Tut%u2019s decor is immediately noticable to anyone passing by and the motif is repeated inside with a small bust of the Boy King. There is Molokhia, Egyptian Cornish hen at $5.95, Cairo Fatta, a bread covered with broth, rice, meat and a garlic sauce for $4.95. But there arp also thp more familiar kafta kebobs, cous-cous, moussaka and hurnmos and falafel for appetizers. For lunch, King Tut serves some European dishes such as Veal Marsala or Veal Francaise. King Tut, 230 Atlantic Avenue, open 7 days a week 11 am to 11 pm. No credit cards. Bring your own wine and beer. 625-8287.The Almontaser family, with its ALMONTASER%u2019S restaurant on Court Street, has made an interesting combination of Yemen and French dishes on its menu. A fava bean appetizer might be eaten with a french seafood casserole for $5.95. There is also Saana Glaba, lamb sauteed in green peppers, onions, garlic and covered with tomato sauce and spices for $4.95. Almontaser, 218 Court Street, open 7 days a week from 11 am to 11 pm, bring your won wine and beer. American Express. 624-9267.Other Almonaser enterprises in similar menu and stvle and the same healthy portions include ATLANTIC HOUSE, the original, Almontaser restaurant which literally started the Mid-Eastern restaurant boom in 1968,and TAIZ on Court Street, the most recent edition. Tate Yemen Restaurant, 172 Court St. Every day, from 11 am to 11 pm. Master Charge and Visa. Bring your own wine or beer. Atlantic House Yemen Restaurant, 144 Atlantic AVe. Mon-Sun 11 am to 11 pm. Bring your own wine or beer. 858-7732.The oldest of Downtown Brooklyn%u2019s MidEastern restaurants is EASTERN STAR, which has languished and flourished through many owners over the past many years. Current management has pumped new life back into the venerable dean of Atlantic Avenue%u2019s Mid-East cuisine and service is attentive and food is now generally of quality again. New Eastern Star, 205 Atlantic Ave. Moil.- Sun. 11 am to11 pm. Bring your own wine or beer. 625- 8657,596-1919.Another noteworthy Mid-Eastern restaurant isADNAN RESTAURANT, 129 Atlantic Avenue. Open Mon.-Sun. 11 am to 11 pm, bring your own wine or beer. 625-8697.FRENCHJust mention French cuisine and most Americans will be in awe of its reputation. The French themselves believe that it isnot the complexity of a dish but the quality and freshness of ingredients that will make a perfect meal. Julia Child%u2019s popular cooking lessons have de-mystified much of the French haute cuisine and may have taken many cooks to their pots and pans to try a few recipes.It is not d ear wnai started it, but downtown Brooklyn now has some of the most distinguished French restaurants around at considerably lower prices than their Manhattan counterparts. Hubert%u2019s has become a cult object for many who think they have discovered a Victorian jewel. Lisanne on Atlantic Avenue with its spare, modern look is the newest addition. Pate Vite%u2019s unique tiny dining roomkitchen dishes up some of the most delicious simple meals in town.LISANNE is the newest addition to the French dining experience in Brooklyn. Entering the restaurant, patrons have the opportunity to inspect the tidy but busy kitchen as they pass. Upon entering the large stark-white dining room, diners are greeted by the sight of a delightfulydecorated buffet table laden with pre- and post-dinner treasures. Dinner is prix fixe, ranging from a very reasonable $12 to $16 on one recent night. A range of five or six entrees is usually available with a similar choice of appetizers and desserts. Recent entrees ranged from a curried-sauce breast of chicken to a roast veal stuffed with spinach and sausage. Appetizers included an interesting pumpkin soup, the house pate and an escabeche. The dessert menu ranged from poached pears to a delightful applesauce-walnut cake. The evening menu is posted on a board in the front window, and, in person, is delivered by host Joel Wolf,for whom the restaurant is a labor of love. Lisanne, 448 Atlantic Avenue. Reservations requested, 237-2271. Dinner, Tues thru Sun. 6-10 pm. Sunday brunch at noon. Available for catered luncheons. Visa, Mastercharge, American Express. Bring your own wine.In the unlikely setting of a restored Victorian bar, HUBERT%u2019S is one of those places that would be worth the price of ameal just to visit. But when you finish it%u2019s hard to decide which was better%u2014the food or the atmosphere. It really doesn%u2019t matter, because the dining experience is a real total delight. Working out of a kitchen the size of an airline gallev. Len Allison and Karen Hubert set an outstanding tabic. Everything is a la carte with appetizers ranging from $2-$4, entrees from $9 to $14 and desserts from $2 to $3. Hubert%u2019s has built an interesting wine list to provide a full accompaniment to its fare. One innovation that provides the interesting variation on the normal restaurant routine is the Hubert%u2019s guest chef program which invites different noteworthy chefs to prepare an evenings menu every Sunday. On Oct. 21, author Irene Kuo will serve up chicken in mustard sauce, accompanied by a range of other unique Oriental treats. Oct. 28, Vermont's Millie Ownes comes to town to serve up unique dishes made with herbs and aromatics from her farm. A sample: brook trout Meuniere with marigolds. Hubert%u2019s, 148 Hoyt St. (at Bergen) 858-0400. Open 6-10 pm Mon. thru Sat. Guest chef dinners Sunday at 6 and 9 pm. Reservations a must for guest chef dinners. Wine list. American Express. Visa and Master Charge.To reachPATE VITE a visitor must step down a few steps to this small 24-seat modern decor restaurant on Atlantic Avenue. Waiting for dishes to arrive is hardly a chore because the chef is busy preparing them right in front of you. A recent menu showed a simple cucumber soup, rack of lamb with a salad. Desserts are delicious diablo chocolate cake, lemon tarte or chocolate mousse. Dinners are at a fixed price of $16.50. Pate Vite has custom catering for large and small affairs and frequently caters at Brooklyn Museum parties. People can also call to have some pate prepared or smoked chicken to take out. Pate Vite, 178 Atla. ,ie Avenue, Open Wed-Sat. Seatings at 7 and 9 pm, Sun. at 6:30 and 8:30 pm. Call tor reservations. Bring your own wine or beer. No credit card. 624-8852.K n ow y o u rn eig h b o rh o o dk iteh en m o n g er.My pick of the world%u2019s good kitchen equipment: woks to whisks to Waldow copper; cookbooks to Cuisinarts. Marble pastry slabs, pot racks, restaurant shelving and Calphalon. Also, copper retinnng and repair, knife sharpening, wine seminars and practical advice for the asking. Come in and talk of what might he.(ritu a l (go^178 AtlanticAvenue/ttrooklyn /834-8067i BtIWttN COURT STREET & CIIN10N iI'tenc/i cuhtHi'%u2018I r r /f u r n H W v flh iycc lne/i|j|| a n dfetaenRaymond Sokolov. Cur Magazine Joel Oppenheimer. Village Voice AThis dazzling little place is tiny gem on the top of the listK S X I'J .',%u201d N ow Open M o n d a y sOct. 21 Irene Kuo. During her distinctive career she opened and ran two of New York%u2019s most innovative and successful restaurants, The Lychee Tree and The Gingko Tree. She is the only non-French chef to have prepared a 15 course dinner for the Chevaliers de Tastevin. She holds the coveted Food and Wine Magazine%u2019s Golden Award.In addition to our Guest chefs, Hubert%u2019s Restaurant offers a full a la carte menu with nighm specials.upen Tuesday-Sunday 919 RBR-flAnnReservations Recommended ^ 1 Z-OOO-Uh u U'i^ J S l a t u r a l l y / ^n a tu ra lvegetarian sa n d w ich e swholesale*retall soon52 7th ave. tiU lyn .n y.tn n7B9-&332By Reservation 2 57-2271448 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn, New York 11217o i d %u2014H u n g a r y'An authentic Hungarian restaurant right here in Brooklyn'Beef Goulash, Chicken Paprika. Stuffed Cabbage.Palaesinta and other traditional dishes.%u201c Live piano music nightly%u201dLUNCH AND DINNER COCKTAILS %u2022 WINES %u2022 LIQUORS OPEN 7 DAYS Major Credit Cards Accepted|625-1649! i l l !142 M ontague St.Restaurant Charcuterie Cateringn o w open fo r lu n c h and d in n e r178 Atlantic Avenue.Brooklyn. N Y 11201 624-8852 reservations recommends.( ) ) ) %u00bb %u00bb Tel. 625-3927 625 -E397courteous1KRVICET A IZ Y E M E NRESTAURANT3 = Z Z t A*. ,z N j NM 3C.E E astern & fre ^ zh s e s ta %u00bb 2 u s ne%u20227 2 : : c R T ST REE~Bf. ZCS34ESS <%u00a3 AM/%u2019v E~BM a ste rc h a rg e & V is aBR2:372 Fulton Street (nr Boro Hall). For reservations call 875-5181. Open dailyWeekdays 11:30 A M. to 9:00 P M. Saturdays a:00 P M. to 11:00 P.M.Major credit cards.The very famous restaurant in Brooklyn.October 18. 1979, The PHOENIX. Page 19