Today marks the start of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, and what better to celebrate the opening ceremony than with a big bowl of borscht? I’ll admit that […]
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Valentine’s Dinner + Bouquets at Adelina’s (2/14)
(sponsored) This Valentine’s Day Adelina’s will offer a prix fixe menu culling from some historical Roman aphrodisiac ingredients + gorgeous bouquets! (This is called killing two birds with one stone […]
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Dirck The Norseman: Brooklyn’s First Brew Pub Officially Open!
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 […]