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END OF THE CENTURY BAR

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END OF THE CENTURY BAR  • 104-08 Metropolitan Avenue • Forest Hills, NY 11375 • (718) 544-1624• Anyone who knows me even slightly knows that I love cocktails. I like making them and drinking them and finding good places to get them. For years now, the only place to go for decent cocktails has been Manhattan, the trendier parts of Brooklyn, and recently,...

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OCABANON

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OCABANON 245 West 29th Street New York, NY 10022 (646) 669-7879 When Speeds moved back to New York from Syracuse, she asked herself one thing. "Where can I live that has high rent and a dramatically high number of homeless people?" Then it hit her. Northern Chelsea. As usual, Speeds didn't want to dine too far from her apartment building, so we decided...

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BLACK IRON BURGER

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BLACK IRON BURGER 540 East 5th Street New York, NY 10009 (212) 677-6067 The first time I'd been to Black Iron Burger, the small almost-hole-in-the-wall sized gastropub in Alphabet City was several months ago with Mr. Dogz. We had a Groupon, and we figured we'd get a cheap lunch cheaper. We did not expect to be blown off our bar stools by one...

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COURT STREET GROCERS

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COURT STREET GROCERS 485 Court Street Brooklyn, NY 11231 (718) 722-7229 Situated in Carroll Gardens (and Hells Kitchen and Red Hook) is the Court Street Grocer. Part hipster bodega, part sandwich shoppe. I had never heard of the place until Mr. Dogz, the guy without the food blog but with the fortitude to watch Food Network cookoff shows, mentioned it to me. Side...

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RED GRAVY

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RED GRAVY HAS CLOSED. RED GRAVY 151 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11201 (718) 855-0051 For her most recent birthday, I met Myna near where she works in Brooklyn and treated her to dinner at Red Gravy, a cool, definitely-not-traditional Italian bistro on Atlantic Avenue, at the very southern tip of Brooklyn Heights. Fun fact: Brooklyn Heights was, once upon a time, the only...

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OKTOBERFEST SPECIAL 2014!!!!

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OKTOBERFEST SPECIAL 2014!!! DBA Brooklyn Finback Brewery Paulaner Brauhaus Reichenbach Hall Zeppelin Hall There's something about drinking beer outdoors at big tables or inside of a cavernous room (also at big tables) that is inherently relaxing. Maybe it takes one back to lunchtime at summer camp when everyone would gather at the rows of picnic tables and unpack their lunches. An apple, a...

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