Author Sherri Eisenberg has released a new 328-page book on the best eats in the borough. “Eton” in Gowanus and “Georgian Bread” in Brighton Beach made the cut. What are some of your favorite BK food spots?
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By Mary Plummer and Bradley Gallo
On April 18, New Yorkers gathered at The Bell House in Brooklyn to sample 20 competing lamb recipes. Local chefs spared off with dishes ranging from lamb cupcakes to lamb tacos. We sent our favorite meat lover Bradley Gallo to investigate and pick a winner.
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The members-only Park Slope Food Coop, known for its affordable produce and left-wing views, plans to challenge Barney’s Co-op over the use of the term ‘co-op’. The Barney’s fashion chain plans to expand into Brooklyn this fall.
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Though Greenpoint’s Peter Pan Donuts has long been a favorite of doughnut enthusiasts, it only recently entered comedian Tina Fey’s radar. Fey discovered the Polish bakery’s doughnuts recently while shooting nearly for “30 Rock,” as Gothamist reports. She professed her love for the pastries in an interview with Esquire.
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When Brooklyn Assemblyman Felix Ortiz (pictured left) proposed banning salt from all New York restaurants a few days ago—with a $1,000 penalty for violators—it raised eyebrows around the world, and drew an irate response from local chefs and food folk throughout the city. (”Anybody who wants to taste food with no salt, go to a [...]
After the Lundy family sold the restaurant, Lundy’s was never quite the same.
A cooking club at the JCH in Bensonhurst puts senior citizens to work with young children. The resulting activity is a sight to see.
Paris has come to Bed-Stuy and people are eating it up. La Table Exquise is new to the neighborhood and is already catching eyes.
By Leah Finnegan
The phalanx of Tupperware-clad students crowded around the microwave in Brooklyn College’s cafeteria either doesn’t notice or tries to ignore what’s scrawled on the wall above the machine, with an arrow pointing downward: “It’s very nasty.”
The cafeteria is technically titled the Metropolitan Food Café, and is decorated in shades of [...]
Thursday, June 17, 2010
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