Buttermilk Channel is a newish Carroll Gardens restaurant on that stretch of Court Street not far from the Smith and 9th Street F-train station. 524 Court Street (Huntington Street), Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn; (718) 852-8490

Their website explains that the original Buttermilk Channel is the mile-long tidal strait between Brooklyn and Governor's Island. Walt Whitman wrote in the Brooklyn Eagle that farmers would walk their cows across there during low tide so the cows could graze on the Island's abundant grass.

The owner is CIA-trained chef Doug Crowell, a native New Yorker, who formerly managed Blue Fin and Blue Water Grill in Manhattan. Chef Ryan Angulo is a Rhode Island native, who was the Chef De Cuisine at the Stanton Social Club on the Lower East Side. 

The menu includes lots of tasty-sounding items with an emphasis on oysters and sausages, but also entrees like Warm Lamb and Romaine Salad, Caputo's Fresh Linguini, Bacon Wrapped Brook Trout, Rhode Island Day Boat Scallops, Duck Meatloaf, Fried Chicken…

Need I go on?

It's hard to imagine being hungry tonight. But it's the birthday of a special someone and we will CELEBRATE!