Bklyn Bloggage: food & drink
Wasabi-crusted tuna with orange sauce: A Kitchen in Brooklyn
A stolen cheesecake: A Cake Bakes in Brooklyn
Peter Pan donuts at Farmacy: Eat It
Comida Mercado Fresco and Brooklyn Fare: NY Times
Should bodegas be armed?: The Brooklyn Ink
New gin distillery in Sunset Park: TBI
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Bklyn Bloggage: food & drink
A modern cake for a modern painting: A Cake Bakes in Bklyn
Thanksgiving turkey pre-order: The Brooklyn Kitchen
What to eat (and make) in fall: 2 Cooks in the Kitchen
Chef’s tips for Thanksgiving meal: NY Times
Brooklyn Oneology Tasting Room: NY Times
Recipe for cinnamon apple muffins: A Kitchen in Brooklyn
First Impressions: New Food in Park Slope
King of Cupcakes on Seventh Avenue between 4th and 5th Streets: First impression: nice people and a delicious red velvet cupcake in this family owned shop that is very brightly lit and pink.
A pop up soup place in Cousin Louie G’s ice cream place. First impression: A variety of good looking soups. Haven’t tried it yet.
The new restaurant where Mac’s/Elementi/Snooky’s used to be will be an Italian/pizza restaurant. First impression: They’re doing an expensive renovation in there and it’s got a brand new exterior.
Crespella Crepe and Espresso Bar on Seventh Avenue next to Smiley Pizza. First impression: Lovely redesign of that new space. Haven’t tried the coffee.
Bagel Market on Seventh Avenue near Union Street: First impression: they serve pastrami and corned beef. Looks crowded already
Bklyn Bloggage: food & drink
Super sad true praline story: A Cake Bakes in Brooklyn
Polish stuffed cabbage: A Kitchen in Brooklyn
Perch Fall prix-fixe: All About Fifth
Thomas Beisl becomes Berlyn: NY Times
Good morning muffins from Blue Sky Bakery: Serious Eats
Banya love: Ditmas Park Blog
Thanksgiving help and provisions: Purple Kale Kitchen
The Book of Knish: Kickstarter
Bklyn Bloggage: food & drink
Baking a demon cake with two angels: A Cake Bakes in Brooklyn
My favorite flexible fall soup: 2 Cooks in the Kitchen
Osso Buco: A Kitchen in Brooklyn
Dinner at Locanda Vini e Olli: Eat It
Kappa Sake House in Park Slope: NY Times
Farmers Market Video: All About Fifth
Freddy’s Bar Signed Lease for New Fifth Avenue Space
Freddy’s Bar, the beloved Prospect Heights bar and performance space, which was in many ways the epicenter of Atlantic Yards activism is reopening on Fifth Avenue between 17th and 18th Street in South Park Slope.
For those who don’t remember, the original location was demolished in the name of eminent domain. In other words, because it was in the footprint of the Atlantic Yards project, it was deemed a blight to the neighborhood. Ha!
Seems that the previous owner of Freddy’s is no longer involved in this brand new endeavor and that the Freddy’s staff members have taken over.
The new owners are Donald O’Finn, previous manager and bartender, Matt Khun and Matt Kimmett, both previous Freddy’s bartenders. According to O’Finn, “they are all highly responsible for the success that Freddy’s enjoyed at it’s past location.”
O’Finn adds that the new Freddy’s team signed the new South Slope lease on the evening of Oct. 21, 2010. That’s last night so this is hot off the presses, folks.
Says O’Finn: “The opening of the doors is contingent on the speed and accuracy of both the State Liquor Authority and the Department of Buildings, as well as the embrace of Community Board.”
Let’s hope it all goes quickly. Good luck to all of you.
Bklyn Bloggage: food & drink
Lemon drops in a hail storm: A Cake Bakes in Brooklyn
You will be missed Blue Marble: A Girl Bakes in Brooklyn
Prospect Park Empanada lady: Brooklyn Paper
Fall-themed whoopie pies: A Kitchen in Brooklyn
The New Brooklyn Cookbook: NY Times
Brooklyn Winery: NY Times
Breuckelen Gin Outta Sunset Park
I just watched a video about the Breuckelen Gin Distillery on 19th Street in Sunset Park. Brad Estabrook, the owner, says that he decided a few years ago that he wanted to make something by hand and settled on gin because that’s what he likes to drink.
The name caught my eye because it’s Breuckelen, of course, but also because I wondered if it was Dutch style gin, which I tasted at one of Pastor Meeter’s herring festivals at Two Boots.
I still don’t know if it’s Dutch style, no word about that on the site. The site does, however, have loads of information about how they set up the distillery and how they prepare the gin, which is made from local New York grains.
When Estabrook was laid off from his job in finance back in the dark days of December 2008, he had all the motivation he needed to work full time on his artisan distillery.
“The last year and a half have been a lot of work, sweat, and stress, but we are finally open,” he writes on Breucklen’s website. “We are currently producing and selling our Breuckelen Gin.”
I know it’s available at The Greene Grape in Fort Greene:
As of tomorrow, Friday, October 15, Breuckelen Gin, distilled in Sunset Park, is in! $35 for a 750ml bottle, call us at (718) 797-9463 to reserve yours. Because this week’s wine is a spirit, we’ll open a few surprise bottles tomorrow, Friday, October 15 from 5-7pm for our regular wine and cheese tasting.
Cheers. Or should I say proost in Dutch?
Bklyn Bloggage: food & drink
Ten baking essentials: A Cake Bakes in Brooklyn
Community Cooking Club, lunch specials: 2 Cooks in the Kitchen
Dinner at Karloff: Eat It
Dinner with the butcher: Ditmas Park Blog
Baluchi’s cooking demo: All About Fifth
Cherry Tomato-Thyme Risotto with Shrimp: A Kitchen in Brooklyn
Mile End leads Bklyn’s Zagat listings: Brooklyn Paper
Oct 30: Prospect Farm Harvest Fest & Soup Cook-Off
Did you know there’s a 5,000 sq ft community-run urban farm on Prospect Ave between Seeley and Vanderbilt Streets in Windsor Terrace called Prospect Farm.
On October 30th, they are are having a one year anniversary party, Harvest Fest and Soup Cook-Off (rain-date October 31st) at the Prospect Farm 11AM until 4PM. It will be a great way to learn about Prospect Farm’s work, member info, games, music, food, soup cook-off judged for prizes, raffle and more.
Yeah!
Bklyn Bloggage: food & drink
10 baking essentials: A Cake Bakes in Brooklyn
Apple strudel and apple picking at Hurd Orchards: A Kitchen in Brooklyn
Tips for lunch bringers: 2 Cooks in the Kitchen
Cooking and eating with friends: Community Cooking Club
Brunch at Lilla Cafe: Eat It
Ditch Plains Drop In at Bklyn Bridge Park: Eater
New cheese class: Stinky Bklyn
Bab al Yemen in Bay Ridge: NY Times
The Mama Rosa Hate Parade: Effed in Park Slope
Gross pink goop=Chicken McNuggets: Gizmodo (via Brokelyn)
Grand Canyon on 7th Avenue: Here’s Park Slope
Hello, Goodbye: Restaurants and Shops in Park Slope
When it comes to restaurants and shops in Park Slope, sometimes we must say goodbye to old friends and hello to new ones:
Good bye to:
Artesana Home, the imported rug, furniture and jewelry store, has been a fixture on the corner of 2nd Street and Seventh Avenue in Park Slope for 11 years. Fare thee well.
Long Tan, the longtime Thai eatery on Fifth Avenue between Union and Berkeley is leaving its spot. Fare thee well.
Total Wine Bar on Fifth Avenue between St. Marks and Warren Street, seems to be totally gone. Fare thee well.
Paper xoxo, the card, stationery and specialty design shop is closed. Her online business is still OPEN.
Zana, the cafe/pastry shop right near the Seventh Avenue F train station on Seventh Avenue is gone, gone, gone. Fare thee well.
Hello:
Taro Sushi on Flatbush Avenue at St. Marks Place is open and looking good. Welcome neighbor!
Naruto Rame on Fifth Avenue between 1st Street and Garfield Place is open and serving very tasty soup! Welcome neighbor!
An exspresso cafe is replacing Zana, the above-mentioned cafe/pastry shop near the F Train station. Welcome neighbor whoever you are!
Etsy Cooking Club with “2 Cooks in the Kitchen”
2 Cooks in the Kitchen will be the hosts of the first Community Cooking Club at ETSY’s DUMBO headquarters (55 Washington Street in Dumbo between Water and Front Street, suite 512). on Wednesday, October 6th at 6:30PM.
Eleanor Whitney from 2 Cooks will be making lunch dishes suitable to bring to work or school! Apparently tickets for this event are getting scooped up quickly, so make sure to get your $10 CCC ticket online today before they’re all gone!
On the horizon:
On Wednesday, November 10th at 6:30 PM the Community Cooking Club will be hosted by food writer and cook Cathy Erway of the blog Not
Eating Out in NY and the subsequent book “The Art of Eating In: How I Learned to Stop Spending and Love the Stove.”
Long Tan, Longtime Park Slope Thai, Is Closing
Long Tan, that attractive Thai eatery on Park Slope’s Fifth Avenue, is closing after ten years in business. I’ve had many a meal there (even one birthday party for my husband) and I always enjoyed their curries, their Pad Thai and their delicious wide noodles (Pad See Ew).
The lanterns and bright colored interior always made it a fun place to eat and drink (ginger martinis!). I especially liked their outdoor patio, a pretty place for alfresco dining (and drinking: ginger martinis!).
Apparently, a new cocktail place is coming in a few months.
Best of luck to the Long Tan people! We’ll miss you.
King of Cupcakes Coming to Park Slope
Coming soon to a space on Seventh Avenue between 4th and 5th Streets in Park Slope: King of Cupcakes. The expensive-looking, well-designed signage has the look of a national chain. Their single-page and uninformative website says they’ve been in existence since 1979.
It does say that they’ll be selling cupcakes, of course, cookies, pies, pastries, bagels, gelato and “the best damn coffee in Brooklyn!”
I like their attitude.
Bklyn Bloggage: food & drink
Apple muffins the old fashioned way: A Cake Bakes in Brooklyn
Sweet corn bruschetta: A Kitchen in Brooklyn
Octoberfest on Fifth: All About Fifth
Would the city shut down your kitchen?: NY Times
Buttermilk Channel is a Michelin BIB pick: Eater
Brunch at Broken English: Eat It
Pig roast of the day: Ditmas Park Blog
The best cheap sandwiches in Brooklyn: Brokelyn
Dude, where’s my coffee?: Brooklyn Based
Schedule of Food Demos at Park Slope Farmers Market (on Fifth Ave)
The Fifth Avenue BID and Community Markets are launching a weekly cooking demo series with local chefs at the Park Slope Farmers Market on Fifth Avenue between 3rd and 5th Streets (not to be confused with the one at Grand Army Plaza). Starting Sunday, Sept 15 from 2-3:30, local farm ingredients will be used to make specialties from some of your favorite nearby eateries. The schedule, so far, is as follows:
–September 26: Fumiko Akiyama of Kappa Sake House will use local produce and seafood to make two kinds of miso soup.
–October 3: a chef from Belleville will demonstrate how to make some of their Parisian Bistro fare.
–October 10: Irene Lo Re of Aunt Suzie’s will use farm-fresh ingredients to make her famous Southern Italian/Brooklyn specialties.
Additional demos are being planned. Stay tuned to the blog: All About Fifth for more details or go to communitymarkets.biz.
Tonight: Park Slope Restaurant Tour
No tricks, all treats.
I once said of the Park Slope Restaurant Tour that it looked like trick or treating for adults because there were so many people on Seventh Avenue lined up at various restaurants to sample free food. Although they weren’t wearing costumes and carrying bags of candy, they looked like they were having a lot of fun.
Don’t miss the 3rd Annual Park Slope Restaurant Tour tonight. You get to sample food from more than 30 area restaurants in one night! Stroll along 7th, 6th & 8th Avenues for delicious freebies from participating restaurants. Collect “Return Visit” coupons and get a discount when you visit the next time. Thursday September 23rd 6:00pm to 9:00pm.
Go to the Buy in Brooklyn website for a full list of participants.
Sept 23: Park Slope Restaurant Tour
Yet another thing to do on Thursday night! But this is so fun, so easy and so tasty I recommend it to all:
The 3rd Annual Park Slope Restaurant Tour. Sample food from more than 30 area restaurants in one night! Stroll along 7th, 6th & 8th Avenues for delicious freebies from participating restaurants. Collect “Return Visit” coupons and get a discount when you visit the next time. Thursday September 23rd 6:00pm to 9:00pm.
Go to the Buy in Brooklyn website for a full list of participants.
New Blog on the Block: A Kitchen in Brooklyn
I thought these delicious sounding new posts at A Kitchen in Brooklyn, a Brooklyn food blog, would be of interest to the foodies who read OTBKB:
Heirloom Tomato Salad and A Review of Eataly
Cooking Demonstrations at the Park Slope Farmer’s Market (on Fifth Avenue)
On Sunday, Sept. 26th Fumiko Akiyama, owner of Park Slope’s Kappa Sake House, will demonstrate how to make two different kinds of miso soup using local produce and seafood at the Park Slope Farmers Market on 5th Avenue between 3rd and 5th Streets in Brooklyn. The event marks the first in a series of weekly cooking demos given by local chefs at the Farmers Market. Each demonstration will be held from 2 to 3:30pm and will feature local, farm-fresh ingredients.
Akiyama is excited to promote her healthy miso soups while educating shoppers about adjusting ingredients based on what’s available at the farmers market. Her restaurant’s mission is to go beyond sushi, bringing a more authentic taste of Japan to Brooklyn. The next week’s demonstration, on October 3rd, will feature the chef at Belleville, a Michelin Guide recommended Parisian Bistro. Aunt Suzie’s, where the cooking is grounded in southern Italian and Brooklyn roots, will give a demonstration on October 10th. The rest of the schedule for October is available at www.communitymarkets.biz. Shoppers will be able to taste each chef’s creation and take the recipe to try at home.
Bklyn Bloggage: food & drink
It’s Wednesday, which is food day at the Bloggage.
Apple muffins the old fashioned way: A Cake Bakes in Brooklyn
The succulent wonders of edible insects: NY Times
Kale chips from Dumbo: NY Times
Breakfast at pies and thighs: Eat It
New burger pop up in W-burg: Eater
Ten countries in five blocks: Brooklyn the Borough
Chipolte in the Slope? Nope!
Brownstoner started a rumor that a Chipolte, a burrito chained owned by McDonalds, was slated for the space vacated by Miracle Grill on Seventh Avenue and 3rd Street. Well, it just ain’t so.
According to the Brooklyn Paper: “Chris Arnold of Chipotle corporate in Denver, adding “but dang, I’d love to see a restaurant in Park Slope.”"
Last I heard, the owners of the now defunct Second Street Cafe were going to open up something new in the Miracle Grill spot.
Anyone know?
Just Announced: The Chow 13
You know I love lists (Park Slope 100 and all that) and here’s a fun one that was just announced over at CHOW.com, who announced their second annual CHOW 13, a baker’s dozen of the hottest, most interesting foodies, including NYC butcher Tom Mylan, of The Brooklyn Kitchen.
Each year, CHOW editors examine the most exciting developments to take place in food over past months and identify the individuals who inspired these trends. These people represent the culinary climate of 2010-the creative people who are making the trends happen. Some of them are well-known, others are up and coming.
This year’s winners represent a wide range of this year’s food trends, including school lunch reformer Ann Cooper; Dennis Crowley, co-founder and CEO of Foursquare, the app that’s turned going out to eat into a game; and
New Orleans chef Susan Spicer, an advocate for Gulf-area businesses affected by the oil spill.
Pig Roast Anyone?
The Farm On Adderley and Sycamore in Ditmas Park present their second annual Pig Roast on Sunday, September 26th from 2-8pm. Chef Tom Kearney will be roasting a 100lb pig, from Fleishers Grass Fed and Organic Meats. The roasting begins Saturday evening, and carries on through the night. Food will be available around 4pm for $25/plate.
By the way, you can’t have a roast without great beer, so to wash it down, Lagunitas Brewery of Petaluma, CA will be pouring $5 pints of five of their delicious seasonal and sessional beers. There will be live music as well.
There are limited tickets available online at www.sycamorebrooklyn.com or at brownpapertickets.com. There will also be some additional tickets at the door.
Bklyn Bloggage: food & drink
It’s Thursday and since I didn’t get around to yesterday’s Food & Drink Bloggage, here goes.
Campo de ‘Fiori: NY Times
Best chocolate cake in the world: A Cake Bakes in Brooklyn
Salmonella at farm traced to 2008: NY Times
Next-Door Shipping in Bushwick: Eat It
Brunch at Brooklyn Label: Eat It
The Milk Truck at the Bklyn Flea: Serious Eats
Traif in Williamsburg: Serious Eats
Ox Cart Tavern: Ditmas Park Blog
Breakfast at Cafe Tibet: Ditmas Park Blog
Sept 23: Third Annual Park Slope Restaurant Tour
On Thursday, September 23rd from 6-9PM, Park Slope’s 6th, 7th and 8th Avenues will be a foodie paradise as restaurants roll out their welcome mats for the 3rd Annual Park Slope Restaurant Tour.
Thanks to the Park Slope Chamber of Commerce, it’s trick or treating for adults (and kids) as the participating restaurants offer free sample and a coupon for future visits.
More than 30 businesses have joined the tour so far. The full list and map are available at participating
restaurants, member merchants and the Park Slope Copy Center (123 Seventh Ave. between President & Carroll Streets).
Chock Full ‘o Nuts
My mother will be happy to hear—or maybe she’s already read about it in the Times—that Chock Full ‘O Nuts (CFON) is returning to Manhattan with a single location on 23rd Street between 5th and 6th Avenues.
CFON used to occupy a space in our hearts and our neighborhood on the Upper West Side. Broadway between 86th and 87th Street is where she sat for years and years. A large yellow and black restaurant with counter space and revolving stools.
It was a place to get a quick cup of coffee and delicious whole-wheat doughnuts, nut-and-cream-cheese sandwiches, grilled hot dogs and split pea soups.
And the clientele: it was something out of a Edward Hopper painting combined with the 1960′s and ’70s residents of the Upper West Side.
What Starbucks is now, CFON was then. Sort of. A place for some to linger over a cup of coffee.
And now CFON is back. One question: will they be serving wifi with their date nut bread? I for one can’t wait to revisit this gastro-temple of my youth with the unforgettable theme song: Chock full ‘o nuts is a heavenly coffee, heavenly coffee, heavenly coffee…
Back when we were kids, we could afford to spend a dollar at the counter and get a cream cheese sandwich from the uniformed waitress. The service was good, it was clean, the donuts and sandwiches were tasty.
And the coffee? Better a coffee a millionaire’s money can’t buy.
Naruto Ramen Opens on Park Slope’s Fifth Avenue
The Park Slope branch of the Upper East Side Japanese noodle shop Naruto Ramen, opened yesterday. They’re in the storefront where 3r Living used to be.
If you remember 3r Living, it’s a fairly narrow space for a restaurant but it will be perfect for the long bar of a noodle shop. The menu offers three kinds of noodles, as well as curries and fried chicken. Location: 276 5th Ave., Brooklyn between Garfield and 1st Streets.
Happy New Year: Challah and Honey from D’Vine Taste
One of the pleasures of life is shopping at D’Vine Taste, the middle-eastern gourmet shop on Seventh Avenue near Garfield Place in Park Slope, where I buy cheese, hummus, tabouli, condiments, olive oil, olives and many others delicious things. On Wednesday, Wajih Salem, the tall Lebanese man with the beard who is one of the sibling-owners, handed me a large, round challah, that he bakes.
“L’shannah tovah,” he said with a big smile.
D’Vine Taste supplies the challah for Congregation Beth Elohim. Often on Thursday afternoons I’ll see Salem walking up Garfield Place to the synagogue with his huge box of challah for the temple’s nursery school, the weekend’s Bar/Bat Mitzvah or other celebrations.
On Friday’s one of the shop’s front windows is filled with challahs wrapped in plastic. For Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year and the beginning of a 10day period of celebration and atonement which ends with Yom Kippur, Salem bakes a round challah, which symbolizes the cyclical nature of life.
Yesterday I also picked up a jar of of honey from the Magnolia Honey Company in Woodville, Mississippi, dried fruit and nuts. What a pleasure to share the holiday with Salem and his siblings at D’Vine Taste.
