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peter.hobbs Jun 09
“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 [...] -
lentejasrojas Jun 07
Editors Note: Long before it was culinary chic to retrofit a truck to sling awesome food, the Red Hook Ballfield Vendors started doing it out of necessity. When the city threatened to shut down the freewheeling weekly Latin-American food fest, Cesar Fuentes took it upon himself to stand up for his community of vendors, and helped [...] -
peter.hobbs Jun 03
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 [...] -
jasonmgreenberg Jun 03
A mere stone’s throw from bustling Flatbush Avenue, on the charming residential Carlton Ave, lies the restaurant James. One of Brooklyn’s hidden gems. We talked with Chef Bryan Calvert who, along with his wife Deborah Williamson, owns and operates this small, intimate restaurant with an accessible, American-influenced menu.
So Bryan, can you tell me a little about how [...]
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peter.hobbs May 27
Sycamore Flower Shop & Bar in Ditmas Park is like an oasis in a dream. Stumbling into Ditmas after passing through the surrounding city’s dense canyons of brownstone, brick and concrete leaves many first time visitors awestruck, as they’re greeted by block after block of big Victorian houses, sprawling lawns, wraparound porches and quiet tree-lined [...] -
Jacque S May 27
by Jacque Lynn Schiller The Clover Club in Cobble Hill is, if anything, gorgeous: rich wood, tin ceilings, chandeliers… But don’t let the opulence intimidate. The bar staff is friendly and know their old time cocktails. And someone in the kitchen, Executive Chef Craig Rivard to be exact, knows his bar snacks. We melted into one [...] -
peter.hobbs May 27
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,” [...] -
peter.hobbs May 26
By Jackie Goldstein I recently had the pleasure of joining Scott Bridi, the founder of Brooklyn Cured , as he cooked for a small group of friends at his cousin’s apartment. These dinners are a somewhat regular occurrence – with so much time spent at work, hand-crafting his line of pates, sausages, and rillettes, Scott loves the chance [...]
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Growing Edible Mushrooms at Home Head to urban farming pop-up Hayseed’s Big City Farm Supply—a collaborative project from the folks behind Brooklyn Grange and Brooklyn Homesteader—for a DIY workshop on cultivating ...
OK list lovers – here’s your Brooklyn roundup, freshly harvested from last week’s crop of the local Top/Best/Most lists. The List Roundup Serious Eats charted 12 Brussels Sprouts Dishes We Love in ...
In the latest episode of the NY Chow Report, editor Pervaiz Shallwani visited Chuko in Prospect Heights to try their vegetarian ramen. “When it’s on the menu, a bowl of Chuko’s kimchi pork ...
Morimoto vets David Koon, James Sato, and Jamison Blankenship serve up serious ramen in Brooklyn at Chuko in Prospect Heights. Ramen. To the uninitiated, the word might conjur thoughts of the instant variety, that MSG-laden ...
Just when you think the food scene in Brooklyn couldn’t get any more exciting, The New York Times reports on a set of fall openings we can’t wait to get our ...
Chuko, a ramen restaurant brought to you by Morimito vets Jamison Blankenship and David Koon, is opening soon in Prospect Heights Ramen fiends in Brooklyn have been salivating since word leaked a few months ago ...
