Jimmy’s back with Southern revival

Brother Jimmy is back. Twenty years after selling his Southern BBQ chain, Jimmy Goldman bought back the two New York City Brother Jimmy’s locations — and is about to start expansion at both spots, Side Dish has learned.

The 13-year-old Madison Square Garden location, at 416 Eighth Ave., will soon include a 3,500-square-foot rooftop beer garden that will seat about 150 people, Goldman said, adding the renovation will take around six months to complete and that the restaurant will remain open during this time.

The flagship, at 181 Lexington Ave., at 31st Street, is also being renovated “to bring more of a Southern industrial look and feel,” Goldman said.

Signature dishes include a Black Angus brisket, smoked for 14 hours, while new dishes will include chicken and waffle skewers with a maple mustard dipping sauce, and a southern seafood boil with shrimp or crawfish, corn on the cob and potatoes.

Goldman opened the first Brother Jimmy’s on the Upper East Side in 1989, shortly after he graduated from college. He sold control of the company in 1998 and relocated to Saint Martin with his newlywed bride, Jodi Solomon, to launch restaurants like Bamboo, Sky Beach and Tantra.

Goldman, separated from Solomon, returned to New York last year after Hurricane Irma devastated the island — including his business.

After reaching out to his former company to negotiate rights to the BBQ chain in Saint Martin, he felt his love for the chain rekindled. Plus his 11-year old son, living in the Big Apple with his mom, asked him to move back to the city.

“How can a dad say no to his only child, and how can a man say no to a brand he created just after college, which needed vision?” Goldman said.

Just in time for the High Holy Days, Acme Smoked Fish, the fourth- generation family-owned business whose products are sold at places like Zabar’s, Barney Greengrass and Zucker’s Bagels and Smoked Fish, opens its doors to the public every Friday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 30 Gem St. in Greenpoint, Brooklyn — offering 20 percent to 50 percent discounts and unique offerings, like Thai chili cold -moked salmon for Yom Kippur.