Read all about James, a new restaurant at 605 Carlton Avenue (St. Marks Avenue), Prospect Heights, Brooklyn in yesterday’s New York Times. And don’t forget to check out the audio slide show over there. Here’s an excerpt from the story. Has anyone been?

…they didn’t reach to consultants for help with writing the
succinct, appealing menu, which takes advantage of herbs they grow
themselves in an outdoor garden adjacent to their apartment, on the
roof of a garage next door. James is a Mom-and-Pop operation for the Alice Waters era, giving locavores sage, basil, oregano and rosemary they can feel especially virtuous about.

It’s
also an example of how quietly sophisticated the food at restaurants
fashioned as affordable neighborhood bistros has become. No bigger,
brasher restaurant around town served me an heirloom tomato salad this
summer that I enjoyed any more than one at James.