It’s been a while since I’ve had to haggle over my lunch. Fortunately, the wait staff at Taste Good Malaysian were feeling diplomatic when I asked about their chili crab. The last time I had eaten at Taste Good, chili crab was a special, something I hesitated to order because it would require the restaurant [...]

I have mixed feelings about D.I.Y. dining. Some of my favorite meals involve hot pots or tabletop charcoal barbecuing, and I once spent over half of my lunches in a year at the same salad bar, exploring all the possible varieties of the turkey breast sandwich. On the other hand, I’ve been eating pho for [...]

Editor’s Note: Since the publication of this story, Kenny’s Trattoria has closed its doors. Dine in Brooklyn, this season’s restaurant week in the borough of Biggie, is here – but I’m not too excited. It’s not the event itself but the basic practice of “restaurant week” that annoys me. Beyond being mazes of dubious value [...]

This is the best god damned muffin I’ve ever eaten. I didn’t know it was acceptable to use those words until my first visit to Blue Sky Bakery, a modest hallway of a bake shop just a few steps from where I lay my head in Park Slope. A muffin and coffee from Blue Sky [...]

Live Wire was a two dollar price-cut away from being the perfect bar. There was plenty of room on the most crowded of evenings, a good pool table, sports on TV and a jukebox full of punk and soul. Puppies hopped excitedly from customer to customer as old dogs slept soundly under tables covered in [...]

This isn’t just a beautiful pizza crust. It’s a beautiful pitza crust. Baked in a standard industrial pizza oven at the front of Bedouin Tent, it’s a warm expression of mixed influences at this Jordanian-owned, pan-Arabic seasoned, New-York cultured restaurant between Boerum Hill and Downtown Brooklyn. Like Moustache Pitza, its cousin in Manhattan, Bedouin Tent [...]