Brooklyn Heights Wine Bar

Brooklyn Heights Wine Bar
50 Henry Street
Brooklyn Heights, NY 11201
718.855.5595
www.brooklynheightswinebar.com
Wine bars are often thought to be pretentious, stuffy, and expensive.  They’re often cold and employ a staff that thinks they are superior to you because they know about wine, and you’re ordering pinot noir (because you’re a big fan of Paul Giamatti), and you can’t properly pronounce [...]

Henry’s End

Henry’s End Restaurant
44 Henry Street
Brooklyn Heights, NY 11201
718.834.1776
www.henrysend.com
I have found my death row meal; should I be on death row in Brooklyn; but isn’t the point of a death row meal to have anything you want from anywhere?  But I digress.  Henry’s End is located smack at the end of Henry Street in Brooklyn Heights [...]

Roberta’s | Take II

Roberta’s
261 Moore Street
Brooklyn, NY 11206-3816
(718) 417-1118
www.robertaspizza.com
On a rather unassuming stretch, home to many an industrial building, behind a cloaked exterior and curtained doorway in Bushwick, lies Roberta’s. Part Wood burning oven pizza joint, part locavore’s delight, part beer garden, part radio station, part bonfire site, Totally AMAZING.

Williamsburg | Barcade

Barcade
338 Union Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11211
718-302-6464
www.barcadebrooklyn.com
Barcade, a hidden treasure of Williamsburg, is a must visit for Gen-X and Gen-Y kids that grew up with arcade classics such as Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Frogger, Gauntlet and 1943. I say hidden, as the bar can easily be missed from the street, with only a small, poorly lit sign to [...]

Nature’s Grill | Finally Open!

Nature’s Grill
138 Court Street
Brooklyn New York 11201
718.852.5100
www.naturesgrillcafe.com
After months of delays, Nature’s Grill’s Cobble Hill restaurant is finally open!  They also have a restaurant on 3rd Ave in Bay Ridge.
Nature’s Grill offers a menu of fresh juices, smoothies, protein shakes, wraps, panini, hearty sandwiches, hot entrees, soup, salads, whole wheat pizza, breakfast, desserts, & lunch specials.  [...]

Pete’s Waterfront Ale House

Pete’s Waterfront Ale House
155 Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11201-6724
(718) 522-3794
www.waterfrontalehouse.com
Walking into Pete’s Waterfront Ale House reminds me, somewhat of walking into an old Ground Round restaurant.  It’s grimy.  The smell of free, hot, salty popcorn permeates the air.  There’s a bar to the right playing Nascar on the TV.  We seated ourselves at a cramped table next to a half-wall [...]

Who Makes The Best Red Velvet Cake In Brooklyn?

Last Friday I had the distinct pleasure of being a judge in a Red Velvet Cake competition as part of the Red Show held at the Brooklyn Historical Society.  Other judges were Deborah Schwartz, President of the BHS and Marty Markowitz, Brooklyn Borough President.  The event was sponsored in part by New York Creates. 

Roberta’s

Roberta’s
261 Moore Street
Brooklyn, NY 11206-3816
(718) 417-1118
www.robertaspizza.com
This past Thursday I finally made it out to Roberta’s, whose fried chicken and pizza have been touted as Bushwick staples. The atmosphere of the place is absolutely amazing-low lighting, rustic wood paneling, brick walls, and best of all -gangster rap playing quietly in the background. After ordering some drinks [...]

Brooklyn Label for Brunch

Brooklyn Label
180 Franklin Street
Brooklyn, NY 11222
718-389-2806‎
www.brooklynlabel.com
Looking for a bite after an excursion to the Brooklyn Brewery, I stumbled upon Brooklyn Label, a hybrid cafe / restaurant where Franklin Street and Java Street intersect.  Coincidentally — or ironically — Brooklyn Label is a coffee house on the corner of Java Street.

Drinking Brooklyn at the Brooklyn Brewery

Brooklyn Brewery
#1 Brewer’s Row
79 North 11th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211
718-486-7422
www.brooklynbrewery.com

First things first: Brooklyn Brewery does not serve its own food, but it does let you bring or order your own.  It even provides delivery menus.  What Brooklyn Brewery does serve is an impressive selection of craft beers.  The brewery is open to the public Friday nights [...]