This weekend: The “Flavors Of Lebanon” festival takes place Saturday June 2 and Sunday June 3 in the heart of Brooklyn Heights from noon-6 p.m., each day. Featured alongside plenty of Lebanese & Middle Eastern food will be live music, spinning DJs, games, competitions and a bazaar. Also in the mix: A “folkloric” dance troupe […]
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Gran Electrica, the Mexican restaurant that opened in March at Five Front Street on the DUMBO border, gets the full treatment in a New York Times review. Mind you, our own BHB Karl Junkersfeld has already weighed in. His verdict: “Delicioso.” The Times’ Robin Finn remarks that the restaurant “is a brick-walled, votive-lighted, tin-ceilinged amalgam […]
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Oh My Pasta! has gone limp. After opening about nine months ago, on September 3, 2011, the Italian eatery at 142 Montague Street has shuttered. The locally run restaurant was owned & operated by Marco Lasala, a native Italian from Barletta in southern Italy, who had moved to Brooklyn Heights, serving a menu of family […]
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The Bonnaroo of food, Googa Mooga, hit Prospect Park this weekend. And if you ask the Twitterverse it was…
May 20, 2012The first New York Book Fair opened today at the brand-new Wythe Hotel in Williamsburg, and continues tomorrow and…
May 4, 2012Craig Claiborne, who was born in 1920, took until he was nearly 40 to find himself. Born in Mississippi,…
May 4, 2012Just as another season of alfresco dining and drinking in the neighborhood is getting underway, a new sidewalk café opened for business yesterday at the NU Hotel Brooklyn. Encompassing 416 square feet, the outdoor space has seating capacity for 30 patrons. Current hours of operation are from 4 p.m. to 1 a.m., with food served […]
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A petting zoo, rides, merry-go-round, dancing and plenty of eats will highlight the 2012 Families First Brooklyn Spring Carnival in Cobble Hill, Saturday, May 12, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event takes places on Baltic Street between Clinton and Court streets. Rides are $2 apiece and an all-day pass is $25, benefitting the […]
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The annual Court Street “Brooklyn” Festival takes place this Sunday, May 6, in Carroll Gardens, from Union Street to 9th Street, comprising about 200 vendors. The event includes kiddie rides, live entertainment, music and more street eats than there are kernels of corn on a cob. The Festival runs from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. […]
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Serious Eats seems to have some serious love for the ever-evolving restaurant scene in Cobble Hill. A week after serving up a loving review of intimate eatery Battersby (255 Smith Street), the webbie is licking its chops over La Vara, a new Spanish restaurant at 268 Clinton Street, which explores the Moorish and Jewish flavors […]
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