park slope Archive
02 May 2013
“Just Me With A Meat Slicer”: A Farewell To Beer Table (As We Know It)
This piece was written on 4/25/2013. On 4/27 we visited Beer Table on their last night, where a patron made an impromptu toast to the owners and I drank a beer called Gypsy Tears. On April 27th, 2013, Beer Table in Park Slope will serve its last beer after five years. The small bar and
28 Nov 2012
Drink At Skylark Eat At The Good Fork
Many businesses are still affected by Hurricane Sandy and aren’t able to reopen. While some businesses are finding other ways to keep their restaurants/shops open as they try and bring some sort of normalcy back. The Good Fork in Red Hook is still closed and the owners think that it’ll be another few months before
27 Dec 2011
Giovanni’s Brooklyn Eats
Howard: Even though Giovanni’s has only been open for a few weeks, we here at Eat to Blog already have a complicated relationship with the restaurant. Giovanni’s was opened by the people who ran the recently closed Sette; in fact, the website says that Sette has “re-opened as Giovanni’s”. So why is it a complicated
08 Nov 2011
Kiwiana: A Top Chef Comes to Park Slope
Can you spot the Top Chef in this photo? So after eating at six restaurants in five days, I thought I had finished my own personal restaurant week. The next day I was hanging out with friends and we decided we were going out to dinner, and somehow we decided on Kiwiana. Kiwiana had just
31 May 2011
Frozen Yogurt at Culture
So I’d been hearing a lot of great things about Culture, the new yogurt place on 5th Avenue here in Park Slope. They make all of their yogurt in-house, and serve both fresh and frozen yogurt. On a recent late spring day I stopped in to check it out for myself. I got the frozen
06 May 2011
Banana Head Ice Cream From Uncle Louie G’s
It’s summer time! And it means eating ice cream under the sun time! Uncle Louie G’s maybe famous for their Italian ices but their ice cream is equally as good. Currently my favorite flavor ice cream from Uncle Louie G’s is the banana head. Their ice cream is definitely not the super duper creamy ones
03 May 2011
Ha Noi Comes to Park Slope
Ha Noi is a new Vietnamese restaurant that opened in the old Second Helpings space this weekend. I stopped in yesterday for my first meal, and it was quite good. I was disappointed that they don’t have a vegetarian version of the crispy spring rolls, but the fresh summer rolls were nice and fresh, and