With a few exceptions, Downtown Brooklyn is one area that definitely hasn’t felt the touch of the borough’s newfound enthusiasm for good food. That’s about to change…Official word broke last week about Dekalb Market, a new outdoor venue on a long-vacant space in the heart of downtown that will feature a market comprised of local artisanal growers, makers and chefs housed in a futuristic hive of refurbished shipping containers. With a farm. And live music and stuff.
Hmmm…might this young upstart threaten to topple King Flea? Only time will tell, but the oddsmakers would probably say that there’s plenty of room for more market fun in Brooklyn. Keep ‘em coming!
Dekalb Market is set to open in early summer at 322 Flatbush Ave, just across from the L.I.U. campus in downtown Brooklyn.
“On Evan’s very first brew day here, he got heatstroke.” -Craig Frymark Simply put, local upstart Barrier Brewing is killing it. The year-old, two-man operation has already made a name for itself by brewing an impressive variety of notably well-crafted beers on a tiny single-barrel brewing system, out of a small garage-like space in Oceanside, New York. Evan [...]
Christopher Nicholson’s day job is interesting enough. His daily commute takes him from his Greenpoint home to the Red Hook harborfront, where he’s a winemaker at the Red Hook Winery , shepherding Long Island and Finger Lakes grapes through the long and complex journey from vine to barrel to bottle. But his other work may be even [...]
A mere stone’s throw from bustling Flatbush Avenue, on the charming residential Carlton Ave, lies the restaurant 
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By Leda Meredith Two delicious vegetables plus several kinds of herbal medicine from one plant: what’s not to love? The plant is burdock ( Arctium lappa and A. minus ). One of the two vegetables it produces is in season for only a few weeks, and that season is now. I often say “One person’s weeds are another person’s dinner,” [...]