Editors’ Note: This is the first in a series of posts about the art of dining for one. FIRST UP: Comfort staples The Bounty and Anella. I’m not sure where my penchant for solo […]
Tag: drink
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Holiday Market 2015 Recap + Where to Find Your Favorite Vendors
Sometimes art doesn’t imitate life and it’s too bad because the winter wonderland we brought this year’s Greenpointers Holiday Market was so beautiful! Miss V put down her Mehndi tools […]
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Five Boozey Slushies to Help You Through These Crazy Hot Summer Days
If there’s one thing all Greenpointers have in common it’s that we’re reaaallly struggling with the heat right now. As I sit writing this in my sweatbox railroad apartment, I’m […]
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Recipes Gone Wild: Lucky Luna’s Kimchee + Nori Bloody Mary
Last Sunday, the weather was so gorgeous, and for the first time in months I wasn’t daunted by the thought of leaving a roughly one-block radius. Jen G and I […]
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Meet the Baristas at Cafe Edna! #OSOM
(sponsored) At Cafe Edna, an #OSOM coffee shop on Nassau Ave in Greenpoint, the baristas rule! If you live on “the other side of McGuinness” not only will you get […]
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Coquito – That Funny Feeling Christmas Drink Popular Among the Puerto Ricans
When I was a kid my Titi Pat, whom my Dad called “the Irish woman,” (her real name was Patria) would drop off a big bottle of Coquito during Christmas. […]
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Greenpoint Community Cookbook
Ingredients for a Community Cookbook: 1. An awesome neighborhood (i.e. Greenpoint) 2. A variety of fun and delicious recipes — be them Italian, Polish, Nigerian, Israeli, Korean, Colombian, Japanese…the more […]
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Achilles Heel – Surviving its Youth
Achilles Heel (180 West St) is near everything and nothing all at once. Anchored by the East River and bolstered by Manhattan Avenue, this coffee shop and bar plays with the […]
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Cafe Edna Opens in Cafe Royal’s Place Tomorrow (Sat. 6/21)
What’s in a name? Cafe Royal (195 Nassau Ave) was shutdown and in its’ place the owners of the building, who for reasons unknown want to remain anonymous, reopen the […]
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Brunching for a Cause: Brunchtacular!
In Brooklyn, when we brunch we brunch HARD. But, to brunch AND be philanthropic all at the same time? Last Saturday Rally Downtown hosted Brunchtacular: the mother of all brunches, in […]