Dine in Brooklyn is Here!

Hide the children and pack up the valuables, kids. Dine-In Brooklyn has arrived. In what promises to be the most current Restaurant Week on record (see what I did there?), the old standbys along with some new blood are coming to the party. Some people think of March and get excited for silly things like [...]

DUMBO BBQ & Brunch

To some, brunch is a way of life.  A Sunday privilege…no, a Sunday right, if you will.  To me, brunch is a four letter word.  To start eating eggs at noon or later and waste 3 + hours sitting in a restaurant and spending considerably more money than necessary for what I’m eating doesn’t make [...]

Grimaldi’s Pizzeria

Grimaldi’s is one of the most authentic pizzerias in Brooklyn. And having to compete with the countless other pizza places in the area, that is no easy prize to claim.
Red-and-white-checkered tablecloths drape the crowded cluster of tables that overwhelm the floor space. Swarms of people walk in the door famished due to the endless line [...]

Water Street Restaurant – DUMBO

For my maiden post to Eating Brooklyn I thought it might be appropriate to start where I started 2009, at The Water Street Restaurant in DUMBO.

Situated on an unassuming block, and neighboring Jacques Torres chocolates and a couple friends of mine, I’d often found myself drinking the lonely pint at this somber hole. I’d never eaten here prior to NYE, and by NYD I still hadn’t touched a morsel of food, but my friends tell me that what the onces shunned, was now pretty decent. It looked decent. The place was packed with NYE party-goers eating and drinking. I was witness to the consumption of numerous raw oysters and lobster tails, burgers, steaks, and Buffalo wings.