1. Campbell and Co.
9.1
502 Lorimer St (Powers St.), Brooklyn, NY
Gourmet Store · East Williamsburg · 48 tips and reviews
Rachel Martino: OMG the Buttermilk biscuit with egg and bacon on Sundays is out of this world. Best $6 I've spent in a long time.
Anna Brown: Nice little grocery store with specialty items. It's on the expensive side but it's not a place you do a weeks worth of shopping. The bread is amazing as are the veggies. I love the kalamata olives!!
Serious Eats: Fresh mozzarella from the Bronx, cheese from upstate, produce and chocolate from Brooklyn, home goods from the South, and more—there's quite a bit tucked into this specialty shop.
2. Rye
247 S 1st St. (at Roebling), Brooklyn, NY
Cocktail Bar · Williamsburg · 205 tips and reviews
Gothamist: Try one of the best brunches in the neighborhood, baking fluffy Buttermilk Biscuits, whipping up hearty omelettes and constructing the most delicious salad of all time: the House Smoked Salmon. Read more.
Timothy: Get the Brussels sprout side order. Excellent. Fried sprouts with bacon, pecorino & lemon caper vinaigrette.
Zachary Adam Cohen: Best smelling bathrooms in NYC. Seriously. Its like a jasmine rainforest. Meatloaf sandwich is quite good as well. Don't eat in bathroom.
3. Nita Nita
146 Wythe Ave (N 8th St), Brooklyn, NY
Bar · Williamsburg · 69 tips and reviews
Kate Furman: Hang in the backyard during the summertime. The pickle juice brine used in picklebacks is excellent, strong and spicy.
Gregory K.: Try matt cook's gravy back shots. Yumsss
Johanna: The sweet potatoes with chorizo are delicious. Split some with a friend, along with the greens + shaved parmesan, and blueberry lemonade.
5. Egg
109A N 3rd St (at Berry St), Brooklyn, NY
Breakfast Spot · Williamsburg · 377 tips and reviews
Lexie F: Do not leave here without trying the buttermilk biscuit. It's fluffy, buttery goodness :)
Lauren M: One of the best breakfast spots in Williamsburg! Try the grafton omelet.
The Corcoran Group: Awesome brunch, but be prepared to WAIT. Try the Egg Rothkos or the Biscuits & Gravy. Less of a wait for dinner, when you should try the Fried Oyster Sandwich or the Carolina Kale.
6. The Brooklyn Star
593 Lorimer St (at Conselyea St), Brooklyn, NY
Southern Food Restaurant · Williamsburg · 286 tips and reviews
Jack: Great service (thanks, Liz)! Go for the regular old fashioned, the endive or kale salad, and the Mac and cheese sans bacon. Ax#
timoni west: All animals are killed humanely with five-point exploding heart punch.
Cooper Smith: Let's talk about the Sunday night special. $20/person gets you two HUGE pieces of fried chicken + a side dish for the table-Mac'n'cheese, black beans, collared greens, mashed potatoes. Resos required
7. Blue Bottle Coffee
160 Berry St (btwn N 4th & N 5th St), Brooklyn, NY
Coffee Shop · Williamsburg · 403 tips and reviews
Bobby G: Buckwheat Buttermilk Biscuit Sandwich = best breakfast in miles
John McNally: Lovely Americano, chewy cookies and friendly staff. Nice place to warm up in.
Time Out New York: Try the Brooklyn Bootleg S’mores, w/ house-made fleur de sel–speckled graham crackers, rich chocolate ganache & springy, moonshine-spiked marshmallow. They’re one of our #100best dishes & drinks 2011. Read more.
8. Sweet Chick
8.6
164 Bedford Ave (at N 8th St), Brooklyn, NY
Southern Food Restaurant · Williamsburg · 314 tips and reviews
Jared Leavitt: If they have it, get the General Tso's fried chicken and waffles. Amazing.
Cooper Smith: The fried chicken + bacon and cheddar waffles, with their 3 choices of butter, are incredible. Pies N Thighs, you're still my main squeeze. But this place is my chicken on the side.
R.G. Logan: Order the double chocolate pudding for dessert and then kill yourself.
9. Marlow & Sons
9.0
81 Broadway (btwn Berry & Wythe St), Brooklyn, NY
American Restaurant · Williamsburg · 254 tips and reviews
Ben K.: There's a reason this place has been a Williamsburg staple for sometime. Excellent cocktails, but most importantly incredible food and experience. Order several starters and the brick chicken.
Foster Kamer: FUCK MANHATTAN
nymag: The restaurant's signature dish is the result of what happens when you sandwich half a chicken between a roaring hot skillet and a 35-pound brick. One of our 5 favorite roast chickens in the city! Read more.
Nicole Formica: Be sure to sample all flavors for that day. Menu always has something new and delicious. Never settle for anything less than your ice cream being served in their homemade waffle cones!
Serious Eats: Unique flavors like cornbread and chorizo caramel join conventional vanilla and chocolate at this retro ice cream parlor from a wd~50 pastry vet.
Gothamist: Cotton Candy Cones debuts in Williamsburg today! The new hybrid consists of s'mores ice cream in a chocolate-dipped sugar cone, covered with smoked cotton-candy. Fri, 9/19. Read more.
12. Pies 'n' Thighs
8.8
166 S 4th St (at Driggs Ave), Brooklyn, NY
Fried Chicken Joint · Williamsburg · 554 tips and reviews
The Corcoran Group: Once you get past the apathetic service, you’ll be blown away by their Fried Chicken Box (get the cheese grits) and finish it off with a slice of Banana Cream Pie. The doughnuts are great too!
Serious Eats: Crisp fried chicken, warm, fluffy biscuits, and tender doughnuts all at reasonable prices. Good for breakfast, too.
Tamara H: Walk across the Wburg Bridge w/ your favorite girl and treat her to a chicken biscuit w/ profresh people watching on the side. If she's not into it: dump her, take me.
13. 983 Bushwick's Living Room
983 Flushing Ave (Between Bogart and Evergreen at the end of Central), Brooklyn, NY
American Restaurant · East Williamsburg · 83 tips and reviews
Vivienne Gucwa: Get the fish sandwich and try their selection of cocktails. Great food and spirits.
Lindsay Myers: Get over the fact it's not the old Life, get a quinoa salad and fresh grapefruit juice and chill the f out.
Johnny Dean: OMG the "Quinoa, Avocado, and Feta" side was delicious!! :)