Forty Weight Cafe is fast becoming my favorite Park Slope cafe. What’s cool is that it’s also a restaurant called Sweet Wolf’s and the smells from the kitchen as they prep food for lunch and dinner are positively sumptuous.

The Forty Weight/Sweet Wolf’s double name thing is a tad confusing. But no biggy. The double duty of cafe by day, restaurant by afternoon and evening makes a ton of sense.

The Forty Weight cafe and wi-fi crowd has to clear out at 3:30. That is when the cafe closes AND the restaurant closes for a couple of hours to make way for the evening to prepare for the dinner crowd. Sweet Wolf reopens at 5PM with a dinner menu.

I’ve been here since 8:45 or so. I ordered an iced coffee and a muffin and plugged in my computer. Yes, plugged in my computer. The outlet is a lovely thing.

I met a friend for coffee and we talked and talked…Now it’s lunch time and the waitress just showed me the menu. There’s no pressure to stop using the space at the cafe, but the menu looks great. Vegetarian french onion soup, borscht, veggie chili, roasted cauliflower, hummus and olives, crab cake sandwich, pulled pork on brioche, shrimp with piquante sauce, BBQ pulled tempeh…

I ordered the cold borscht because I am a HUGE fan of cold borscht.

I’m eating the borscht now. It’s a classic Jewish/Eastern European borscht with sour cream. Perfect summer soup. Brings me back. The soup is $7. They also have burgers for the whopping price of $18.