The Soup of Delight

So there’s a lot to recommend about Red Bowl on Bedford: really fresh vegetables and a fair amount of spice, but you can get that lots of places in Brooklyn.  What you can’t get anywhere else is Red Bowl’s Tofu Watercress soup.  Light, flavorful and completely surprising, this is the kind of soup that fills [...]

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Brooklyn Junk

Tucked underneath the disdainful Williamsburg Buffalo Exchange is a real secondhand paradise. Brooklyn Junk is crammed full of all sorts of awesome, well, junk. Reasonably priced vintage furniture, old duds, tons and tons of housewares, and neat crap that can only be categorized as “odds and ends.” Based on the high-priced, snobby [...]

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Fada-riffic

There are as many good brunches as there are stories in the Naked City.  But my hat is off to Fada French Bistro for providing the veggie croque I so desperately needed on a rainy Saturday morning.  Warmed up with that delicacy, along with the giant bowl of Earl Grey tea and the cozy atmosphere, [...]

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Hungry hungry hipsters

I have to give props to the Alligator Lounge in Williamsburg.  It’s a nice enough bar – good vibe, good jukebox, good selection of beers – but nothing that stands out beyond just being a comfy place to have a drink among vast throngs of hipsters.  Nothing, that is, except that they give you a [...]

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Rock the pierogi

So here’s the deal: The Polish National Home in Greenpoint/Williamsburg (depending on how you favor redistricting your hipsters) is THE place to eat pierogis and rock your socks off.  This is no joke.  The beautiful, candelabra-and drape- festooned theatre has a little eating area where Polish grannies in tight jeans and high heels serve up [...]

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