Foodie website Serious Eats tells it like it is… so when they like what they taste, there’s little higher praise. Last week, the New York site gave a shimmering review to Cobble Hill intimate eatery Bittersby at 255 Smith Street, titled “Good Food Comes in Small Spaces,” heralding co-owners and chefs Joseph Ogrodnek and Walker […]
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New York magazine’s April 23, 2012 issue covers “Artisanal Brooklyn,” with a generous 8-page spread about the borough’s movement toward locally made edibles. The subhead: “A step forward for food or a sign of the apocalypse? And does it matter when the stuff tastes so good?” (Read the full story here.) A secondary piece showcases […]
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I’d had a taste of Brooklyn Brewery’s Sorachi Ace beer at Borough President Marty Markowitz’s presser for Dine in…
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Two 2001 graduates from Brooklyn Heights’ Packer Collegiate Institute—one of whom grew up in Cobble Hill—are staying true to the borough by opening an American restaurant in nearby Fort Greene. Pals Alan Cooper and Stephen Cohen plan to launch Prospect Restaurant at 773 Fulton Street in July, in the space of recently closed Mediterranean Aqualis […]
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On various trips to the Middle East my family has debated the merits of hummus in all its glorious…
February 20, 2012Cripes, where do we begin with this one? GQ Magazine has declared Brooklyn “The Coolest City on the Planet.”…
October 21, 2011A strip of Williamsburg waterfront was transformed into a smorgasbord for the senses on Sunday, as some 2,000 visitors…
September 23, 2011If you haven’t already been there, head down to the Tobacco Warehouse in Brooklyn Bridge Park for the Brooklyn…
September 17, 2011Cheryl Tan’s book, “ A Tiger in the Kitchen,” a Brooklyn Bugle Book Club selection discussed here, describes many…
September 14, 2011My goodness, New York. You really know how to get us all hot and bothered, now don’t you? I…
July 29, 2011