Splendid news for beer lovers! Since last week your local beer drinking options just got a whole lot bigger: by 6,000 sq ft! Yes, Friday night saw the long-awaited official […]
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Vongole & Negroni at The Elm
A few seats to my right at the bar, an expensively-dressed middle-aged woman spoke loudly on her smartphone while the stoic waitstaff artfully transferred white beans from a polished steel […]
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Recipes Gone Wild: Jen G’s Bloomin’ Bread
Have you heard about this big sports game thingy tomorrow? As you can see by my drawing, I’m not much of a football fan. I thought a bronco was a […]
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Introducing the Brokelyn Beer Book!
Our pals at Brokelyn just dropped the long-awaited 2014 edition of their Beer Book. And if you were thinking about gifting a box of Duane Reade chocolates to your loved […]
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Good Eggs Is Bringing The Heat (In The Form of Hot Chocolate) to our Valentine’s Market!
If you LOVE local produce and hot chocolate – then you will LOVE Good Eggs, a featured Valentine’s Market vendor that works with 125+ farmers and foodmakers to bring the […]
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Pop-Up Filipino Feast SALO to Embark on a 50-State Tour!
Back in December, on the eve of our first proper snow-fall, I tramped through the slushy streets of Greenpoint on a mission to experience my first ‘Salo‘, an underground Filipino […]
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Lucky Luna: New Mexican-Taiwanese Restaurant Brings Dreamy Steamed Buns to Nassau Ave
One of our readers recently used the acronym ‘OSOM’ (pronounced a bit like awesome) to describe the area on “the Other Side Of McGuinness.” Now that another restaurant has opened […]
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Recipes Gone Wild: Beth Lewand’s Random Green Gratin
Before becoming a Greenpointer, I was a Williamsburger, living near the bridge with a lovely French lady and her feisty kitten, whom we’ll call Tache (to protect the innocent). In […]
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New Bistro Opens at Coco 66
Greenpoint’s Coco 66 (66 Greenpoint Ave) has had its ups and downs over recent years but, as of last Wednesday, its future is looking decidedly brighter. Â A new bistro has […]
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Mission Greenpoint Cheesesteak: Delilah’s Steaks on McGuinness Blvd. SOUTH
Blizzard number two this winter season and we had a Greenpointers field day turned mission to check out the new Philly cheesesteak joint called Delilah’s Steaks, literally a narrow triangular […]