We’re especially happy to run this item, because it concerns Pizza Plus, the little Seventh Avenue pizza place that was devastated by a bad fire in May that also displaced residents upstairs. As you can see in the photo above, Pizza Plus is almost back. It’s been a long haul, but the restaurant has gotten […]

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Today, we have a couple of Williamsburg food & drink items to bring up to date: 1) Red Bowl is open on Bedford Avenue. The new restaurant–which is the third addition to Bedford’s little Asian Row that includes Wild Ginger and Thai Thai–bills itself as new Asian, but the mix leans heavily toward refined Chinese. […]

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1) Brooklyn Pita on Seventh Avenue, which has been in the works for many months, is finally open on Seventh Avenue between Seventh Street and Eighth Street. Falafel and gyros for everybody. 2)We don’t know about the wisdom of calling a tanning salon “Alaskan.” (Truth be told, we don’t know about tanning salons in general.) […]

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1) Ella Cafe is now open on Bedford Avenue between N. 7th and N. 8th Streets. We found it to be a good space with a very nice and chill outdoor space in back (photo below). The front of the cafe has a long bench along the wall where people were hanging out drinking espresso, […]

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1) It looks like Jessie’s Brooklyn Kitchen, whose blue-and-yellow storefront has been in place for some time at 220 Smith Street (uh, since at least January), is closing in on an opening. We know this due to our powerful talent for observation, like the fact that there was painting going on outside that had something […]

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1) Red Bowl, a Chinese restaurant at 208 Bedford Avenue, (above) appears to be making serious progress toward an opening soon. How did we guess? Must be the prominent signage that has been put up. One hopes that it fares better than the last Chinese/Asian attempt a couple of doors down, which seemed to last […]

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1) Call it a sign of the times. When Lillie’s Bar closed in Red Hook it was considered a sign that the times they were definitely changing as the Todd Shipyard buildings fell and Ikea started rising across the street. Yesterday, we noted the apparent upcoming end to Beard Street’s cobblestones. As we reported several […]

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1) In Park Slope, Elementi is now open on Seventh Avenue, occupying the old site of Snooky’s the old neighborhood hangout. Let the Seventh Avenue Battle of the Italian Restaurants begin. 2) Speaking of, uh, Italian restaurants, The Food of the Future reports the, er, fascinating rumor that a new 12-story building will house an […]

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1) We’re beginning to get the sense that there might not be any fleas on N. 6th Street. Why? Check out the signage. The planned new flea market has gone from an opening on June 2 to June 12 to, now, June 123. Well, June 23. Any wagers on whether it will open at all? […]

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Nevermind La Guerra di Linguini on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope, the Sushi War on Fifth Avenue is blazing too. As evidence: 1) The photo above is of Mura, a new Japanese on Fifth Avenue between 5th Street and 6th Street that opened recently. (369 Fifth Avenue, specifically.) It’s not so much that it’s new, […]

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From Park Slope’s Seventh Avenue, we offer this visual evidence of the transformation of the closed Snooky’s into an Italian restaurant called Elementi. There are currently signs taped on the windows looking for wait staff and a manager. So, like, what is the critical mass of Italian restaurants on Seventh Avenue before a Pasta War […]

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We have some Park Slope retail news to pass along. Sterling Place, the home decor retailer that has a store on Atlantic Avenue between Hoyt and Bond is making progress on opening a new storefront on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope. The store will be located on Seventh Avenue and Tenth Street. It is between […]

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An interesting new Seventh Avenue restaurant development on which to report: Scalino is open and serving up Italian food in a cozy little space with big windows at the corner of 10th Street and Seventh Avenue. The menus includes appetizers like Peperonata (red and gold pepper stew)and Sauteed Baby Artichokes. There are pastas like Spinach […]

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GL has gotten word from Cesar Fuentes, who is the representative of the beloved Red Hook food vendors, that a meeting with the Parks Department that was scheduled for yesterday has been postponed until Friday afternoon. We assume this is a good sign in that the Parks Department may need time to come up with […]

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We noticed that the exterior of Po on Smith Street is finished and the sign is up, and were taking some photos when chef Lee McGrath came outside. “Does this mean you’re coming in?” she joked. “When you’re open,” we said. “We’re opening on Thursday and I expect to see you,” she said. There you […]

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Our friends at Eater have a fascinating post about Delices de Paris, the bakery/cafe on Ninth Street in Park Slope that is noteworthy for both the fairly public breakup of its owners and its issues with the health department. Apparently, they have passed three health inspections but DOH won’t let them open. Eater reports: This […]

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We wandered into the Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory‘s new location on Commercial Street in Greenpoint over the weekend and ice cream maker Mark Thompson giving away mini-cones of all his flavors. The shop, which is at 97 Commercial Street (at the end of Manhattan Avenue) has been open since Memorial Day Weekend, in fact, with […]

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We want to relate a single item today of interest to the North Brooklyn vegetarian set and to vegetarians passing through Greenpoint and to those with vegetarian friends whose preferences they would like to accommodate. A GL reader reports that “The William Taft opened on June 5th. The prices are pretty cheap ($4-$6 Sandwiches w/a […]

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1) Small Thunder, a new venture in “customized gifts and jewelry for extraordinary events,” had its grand opening in Williamsburg this weekend. Located on N. 6th Street in a small space just off Bedford Avenue, Small Thunder involves Lisa Levine and Mary Meyer. Judging by the crowd they attracted on Sunday, there is significant interest […]

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A few food and retail developments to report on the North Brooklyn front: 1) It looks like there will be a plethora of new pizza choices (well, at least two new ones) in Williamsburg soon. We’ve previously noted the impending coming of La Nonna at 237 Bedford. The always watchful Will Femia takes note of […]

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[Photo courtesy of jukeboxgraduate/flickr] An item about a new vegetarian restaurant in Greenpoint deserves its own item in GL. So it is with the interestingly named William Taft Vegetarian Diner and Deli at 155 Calyer Street. The restaurant bears the name of U.S. President William Taft, who was a patient at John Harvey Kellogg’s Sanitarium […]

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1) If you’re a fan of the Brick Oven Gallery on Havemeyer Street, you’ve probably noticed that it’s been closed for a few weeks. It’s always been one of our personal favorites for a pizza in Williamsburg and we’re fans of its “Brooklyn Caviar.” In any case, we went past it again yesterday to find […]

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An interesting development to report from Sheepshead Bay, where the venerable (if recently bedraggled) Lundy’s shut down at the beginning of the year. Kinetic Carnival‘s O. Robau left this information as a comment on an older post, but it’s interesting enough to pass along on its own. All credit to Mr. Robau for the intel: […]

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A couple of things to report on the Park Slope food scene: 1) Moim, a new Korean restaurant (“Modern Korean Cuisine,” actually) is getting ready to open at Garfield and Seventh Avenue after a massive construction and renovation effort. One neighbor who watched the work joked that so much dirt and other material was taken […]

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A couple of retail and food developments to flesh out on Court Street via a walk yesterday and a dinner last week: 1) Lee Lee’s Valice at 368 Court Street (at President) had its grand opening this weekend. The boutique occupies the space vacate by the Bleach House, whose demise has been much noted. The […]

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