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Dining archive
With hundreds of restaurants, you’re sure to find just what you want with the GO Brooklyn dining listings. Browse Brooklyn restaurants by category or run a search below to find the borough’s best for anything that you’re craving.
Reviews: Thursday, July 2, 2009
Save the food vendors!
Editorial: Our editorial board believes that licensed street food vendors are a valuable part of our urban life. Comments (3).
Reviews: Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Reviews: Friday, June 26, 2009
Sh-WAR-ma! Ridge group seeks city ban on food vendors
Dining: Bay Ridge’s community board is pushing the city to ban street food carts from several commercial strips. Food vendor fans are crying foul. Comments (10).
Reviews: Thursday, June 25, 2009
The best thing we ate this week: The ‘Greenpoint’ Vietnamese sandwich
The Best Thing We Ate This Week: If the banh mi sandwich is a symbol of French colonialism in Vietnam, then the Polish-style banh mi at Silent H in Williamsburg is an emblem of the gentrification of North Brooklyn. Comment.
Reviews: Monday, June 22, 2009
Cafe Grumpy opens in Park Slope!
Dining: There’s nothing grumpy or obnoxious about this great new coffee bar. Comments (2).
Reviews: Thursday, June 18, 2009
‘C’ is for cookie — on Father’s Day!
Dining: Our top chef gives us a great Father’s Day recipe. Comment.
Reviews: Thursday, June 11, 2009
Sam’s closing? Fuhgedaboudit! Legendary pizzeria quashes rumors (and, perhaps, our kneecaps)
Dining: You heard it here first, nothing is changing at Sam’s restaurant on Court Street, despite a whirlwind of rumors this week that the creator and head pizza chef, Mario Magliaccio, had retired and was moving back to Italy. Comments (19).
Here are our favorite unsung hamburgers
Dining: Everyone has enjoyed the widely lauded burgers at Dumont and Mullane’s, but have you savored Brooklyn’s unsung burgers? Get on the patty wagon with this handy GO Brooklyn guide to the borough’s most underrated burgers. Comments (5).
That’s helado good news
Dining: The calendar waits until June 21, but in Sunset Park, summer actually begins in late March. Comments (2).
Our contest lets YOU be the burger king
Dining: The Brooklyn Paper joins the New York City Wine and Food Festival to take you — and your burger — to the Burger Bash this fall. Don’t miss this once-in-a-lifetime contest opportunity. No purchase necessary! Comments (1).
Reviews: Monday, June 8, 2009
The best thing we ate this week: The burger at Building on Bond
The Best Thing We Ate This Week: In these troubled times, you need simple pleasures. But the best thing we ate this week — the burger at Building on Bond — proves that simplicity doesn’t means compromise. Comment.
Reviews: Thursday, May 28, 2009
Pizza the action! Chirico’s got new wine bar on Court Street
Dining: For father and son restaurateurs Joseph and Marco Chirico, the apple — or in this case, the olive — doesn’t fall from the tree. Comment.
Reviews: Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Book him! Barrio honcho now serving at the library
Dining: Spencer Rothschild has brought his Latin beach cuisine to the Brooklyn Public Library. Comments (1).
Reviews: Tuesday, May 26, 2009
The best thing we ate this week: Jacques Torres is making ice cream!
Dining: He conquered the world of high-end truffles and bon-bons. Then he made us look forward to winter with his hot chocolate. When he started baking, his kitchen quickly created the best chocolate chip cookies and brownies in the city. With video … Comment.
Reviews: Thursday, May 21, 2009
It’s lobster time!
Dining: With Memorial Day around the corner, you need to get some lobsters in you. Comment.
‘Sweet’ and savory: Melissa’s secret BBQ sauce
Dining: Our official baker, “Sweet” Melissa Murphy, returns with a classic summer staple: the barbecue sauce. Comment.
Gelato maestro moves onto the savory stuff
Dining: Gino Cammarata has closed the best gelato joint in the borough to open a small plates restaurant (yes, there’ll be ice cream). Comments (1).
Reviews: Wednesday, May 20, 2009
‘Cue-ing up for BBQ in Greenpoint.
Awesome: This Saturday is the “Great Greenpoint BBQrawl,” and five bars will serve complimentary ’cue and discounted draught beer from Brooklyn Brewery. This is cool. Comment.
Reviews: Tuesday, May 19, 2009
The best thing we ate this week: The mussels at Rebar
Dining: Finally, there’s a kick-ass menu to go with the beautiful setting and creative cocktails at one of our favorite DUMBO watering holes, reBar. Comment.
Reviews: Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Help cure cancer — with just a little wine-ing
Dining: Drinking may not always be good for you, but for the next five weeks at least, it will be good for other people. Comment.
Reviews: Thursday, April 30, 2009
A semi-precious scone from Sweet Melissa
Dining: Our top chef gives us a great Mother’s Day recipe. Comments (1).
Studying is fun at this wine ‘university’
Dining: Becoming a wine snob has never been so easy, thanks to new “courses” at the Park Slope restaurant and wine bar Bussaco. Comment.
Reviews: Monday, April 20, 2009
Pork lovers paradise in Park Slope
Dining: Set your calendars — Sunday, May 3 — for a great pork-filled day. Comments (2).
Reviews: Thursday, April 16, 2009
Here’s the beef: Arby’s ‘Gage’ plan moves ahead
Dining: Fast food chain Arby’s plans to open a roast-beef emporium on the Fulton Mall in the landmark former Gage and Tollner restaurant site moved ahead on Wednesday night. Comment.
Reviews: Friday, April 10, 2009
Sacre bleu! Patois, Smith Street pioneer, goes to Gaphattan!
Dining: The restaurant that started it all on Smith Street just kissed Brooklyn goodbye. Comments (7).
Reviews: Tuesday, April 7, 2009
There’s a new pizza on the block — is Grimaldi’s scared? (Uh, no)
Dining: There’s a new pizza kid on the block in DUMBO a mere 100 yards from legendary pizza giant Grimaldi’s — but Ignazio’s owner Louis Termini (pictured) maintains that there’s room for both. Comments (5).
Is it lights out or sign up for Armando’s?
Dining: Brooklyn Heights is gearing up for the return of the popular restaurant Armando’s, but the soon-to-be-reopened Italian joint might not be able to hang its famous — some say infamous — neon lobster sign in the landmark district. Comments (1).
Reviews: Monday, April 6, 2009
Checkers checks in at Busy Chef site
Breaking Chews: The Busy Chef is about to become the burger chef. Comments (5).
Reviews: Thursday, March 26, 2009
Meals on wheels for Tini Wine Bar
Dining: Call it the trail of cheers — the popular Red Hook bistro Tini Wine Bar lost its lease in one space, but paraded up Van Brunt Street as volunteers (and even some wine-bar-loving tykes) hoisted the eatery’s possessions to a new storefront on Sunday. Comments (1).
Reviews: Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Sour ‘Chef’ may turn ‘Sweet’
Dining: It could be a sweet ending to a sour story as Sweet Melissa considers a move into the former Busy Chef space on Henry Street in Brooklyn Heights. Comments (1).
Reviews: Thursday, March 19, 2009
Cookie won’t crumble! Totonno’s will reopen!
Dining: Totonno’s — arguably the best pizza in the city — will reopen in the same Neptune Avenue location that was badly damaged by a fire on Saturday night, its owner told The Brooklyn Paper. Comments (1).
Jacques treat! Torres getting into ice cream
Dining: Chocolatier Jacques Torres has again made mouths water by spilling the beans on his latest treat: DUMBO’s Willy Wonka is expanding into ice cream. Comment.
Bite of spring
Dining: Our top chef offers her contribution to The Brooklyn Paper’s spring fever coverage. Comment.
Reviews: Friday, March 13, 2009
A ‘landmark’ Arby’s to take historic Gage space
Dining: When the roast beef sandwich joint Arby’s opens in the historic Gage and Tollner storefront this spring, there will be big changes on the menu — but hardly any alterations to the eatery’s famed interior, the restaurateur behind the fast food franchise told The Brooklyn Paper. Comment.
Should Arby’s get historic site?
Vox Pop: The Arby’s sandwich chain is going to open a location in the historic — and landmarked — site of the former Gage and Tollner restaurant on the Fulton Mall in Downtown Brooklyn. We asked shoppers — all potential customers for those fast-food roast beef sandwiches — what they thought. Comment.
Reviews: Thursday, March 12, 2009
It’s the bodega of the future — today!
Dining: A Greenpoint restaurateur is having a go at reinventing the city’s most ubiquitous culinary standby — the corner bodega. Comments (2).
Reviews: Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Breaking chews: Cafe Grumpy to open in Park Slope!
Breaking Chews: The folks who gave Greenpoint the best coffee in the city are coming to the South Slope, The Brooklyn Paper has learned. Comments (2).
Reviews: Thursday, March 5, 2009
Hog heaven!
Dining: Politicians and pundits inside the Beltway are ranting and raving about all the “pork” in the stimulus package, but as far as we’re concerned, the more pork the better. Comment.
Quichey writer
Dining: Our top chef offers her contribution to The Brooklyn Paper’s all-pig coverage. Comment.
Reviews: Wednesday, March 4, 2009
We eat chitlins! A piggy preview
Dining: Join us as we down chitlins — on video! — as part of our exclusive coverage of pork around the borough. With video … Comments (1).
A Tea Lounge for Brooklyn Heights!
Dining: Park Slope’s laid back, novel-writing, blog-posting, coffee-drinking culture may have finally found a beachhead in Brooklyn Heights. Comment.
Three of stomachs! Ortine serves ‘em all
Dining: The problem with your favorite restaurant is that it excels only at one meal a day. But Ortine, which just opened on Washington Avenue in Prospect Heights, serves all three meals every day, and does it exceptionally well. Comments (1).
Reviews: Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Zipi Zape becomes Barberry in Billyburg
Dining: Small plates just got a lot bigger, thanks to the transformation of the tapas bar Zipi Zape into Barberry — a Mediterranean eatery. Comments (1).
Reviews: Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009
Slope is sandwiched by two new joints
Dining: Park Slopers are going to love this: A new sandwich shop on Third Avenue offers lasagna on a bun, while Hanco’s, the beloved Vietnamese sandwich joint, has opened on Seventh Avenue. Comments (1).
Reviews: Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2009
He’s the ‘Top’ (chef)
Dining: Curly-topped “Top Chef” star Mark Simmons is now cooking at Get Fresh Table and Market on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope. Comment.
Reviews: Friday, Feb. 13, 2009
See the 20-pound lobster now!
Dining: This video and story will amaze you! It’s a 20-pound lobster! With video … Comments (7).
Reviews: Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009
Big fat Greek feast
Dining: Park Slope restaurateur Spiro Hiotis named Athena Mediterranean Cuisine after the Greek goddess of wisdom (and, perhaps more important, his daughter) — and it seems that his newly opened eatery has been blessed with some divine intelligence. Comments (3).
Reviews: Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2009
Que Syrah, Syrah! CB2 backs liquor license
Dining: Prohibition is over in Community Board 2! Comments (3).
Reviews: Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009
Make a ‘Stop’ for Stumptown Coffee
Dining: The Stumptown revolution continues! The Portland-based coffee purveyors that will soon open a roasting plant in Red Hook are now offering their gourmet grinds at the newly opened Second Stop Café in Williamsburg. Comment.
Reviews: Friday, Jan. 23, 2009
Five lies! Blogs wrong about Five Guys on Court Street
Dining: The popular hamburger chain Five Guys is expanding — but not to a location on Court Street in Downtown, as was wrongly reported by a number of blogs on Thursday. Comments (7).
Reviews: Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009
Brook-vin opens tonight!
Dining: A new wine bar opens on Seventh Avenue — so lift a glass of the great house red. Comment.
Eat here
Dining: It’s on an unlikely block — yet Vinegar Hill House has become a destination restaurant almost overnight. Comments (3).
Reviews: Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009
Java man! New Hook roaster offers the best beans ever
Dining: No, you actually have never had a good cup of coffee — yet. But that’s all going to change once Stumptown Coffee Roasters — the brew that made Portland famous — opens its new roasting facility in Red Hook next month. Comments (1).
North Brooklyn leads with its stomach
Breaking Chews: It’s a great time to be a North Brooklyn foodie. Two new restaurants have opened in as many weeks, bringing fresh eats to the burgeoning culinary scenes in Williamsburg and Greenpoint. Comments (2).
Reviews: Monday, Jan. 12, 2009
CB2 backs bid for wine bar booze
Dining: Owners of the proposed Brooklyn Heights Wine Bar cleared their first hurdle on Wednesday night when Community Board 2’s health, environment and social services committee voted to approve proprietor Mark Lahm’s liquor license application. Comments (1).
Reviews: Friday, Jan. 9, 2009
Java man! New Hook roaster offers the best beans ever
Dining: No, you actually have never had a good cup of coffee — yet. But that’s all going to change once Stumptown Coffee Roasters — the brew that made Portland famous — opens its new roasting facility in Red Hook next month. With video … Comments (2).
Reviews: Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009
Au revoir, Patois
Dining: Patois — the groundbreaking French bistro that launched the culinary Renaissance of Smith Street — will close on Sunday after 11 years in business. Comments (3).
Reviews: Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009
Make no mis-steak — choose Morton’s over Peter Luger
Dining: Our meat-loving critic takes a bite out of Peter Luger’s much-vaunted porterhouse — and finds the new Morton’s superior in so many ways. Comments (44).
Reviews: Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2008
New wine bar in old bottle on Henry Street
Dining: New life will soon come to the disgraced corner of Henry and Cranberry streets — and the two popular neighborhood restaurateurs say they have no connection to the arrested operator of the previous establishment at the site. Comments (2).
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- Blogs
- Across the Park
- Amusing the Zillion
- Atlantic Yards Report
- Bay Ridge Blog
- Bay Ridge Journal
- Bay Ridge Rover
- Beehive Hairdresser
- Blather from Brooklyn
- Brit in Brooklyn
- Brooklyn Ink
- Brooklyn Based
- Brooklyn Heights Blog
- Brooklyn Optimist
- Brooklyn Row House
- Brownstoner
- City Room
- Coney Island Forum
- Creative Times
- Curbed
- Daily Heights
- Daily Intel
- Daily Slope
- DUMBO NYC
- Eat It Brooklyn
- Gotham Gazette
- Gowanus Lounge
- Green Brooklyn
- Greenpointers
- Grub Street
- I’m Not Sayin, I’m Just Sayin
- Kensington Stories
- Kinetic Carnival
- Kings County Cinema Society
- Lost City
- McBrooklyn
- No Land Grab
- Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn
- The Real Deal
- Sheepshead Bites
- White in Bay Ridge
- Williamsurg Is Dead
- Williamsburg Nerd
- Word on Columbia Street
- Cyclones
- Newspapers
- TV and Radio
- Suggest a link