A chef-driven seasonally-minded restaurant that ups the food options in the Gowanus considerably.
Red Cat is one of the NYT restaurant critic Sam Sifton’s 50 favorite NYC restaurants. To see the full list, get The Scoop iPhone app, an inside guide to New York: NYTimes.com/thescoop
Brooklyn Bowl stakes out expansive new territory, literally and conceptually, in the 23,000-square foot former Hecla Iron Works (1882), one block from the burgeoning waterfront.
Antipasti, some rich pastas, a pizza to share. Drink a little valpol. This was new here once, and important, and still as good as it ever was, for just this sort of meal. Read more.
Ask a librarian at the Muhlenberg Library for staff picks and recommendations. Read more.
Turkish kebabs and stuffed grape leaves for club kids, hipsters, cabbies. Food downtown doesn’t come much cheaper, faster, better.
There are days when the only proper response to life is bangers and mash, pints of Guinness and sawdust on the floor. Here’s your man.
