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The Village Voice's Top 5 Book Events This Week, May 15-21, 2013

Fiona Maazel and Peter Trachtenberg Pete's Candy Store Thursday, May 16, 7:30 p.m., free In reality we've already got G-, Facebook-, Skype-, and every other type of non-synchronous chat option imaginable, but Fiona Maazel's new novel explores a more extreme quick-fix remedy for feeling alone. The pr ... More >>

Q&A: Blue Hill's Katie Bell on How to Create a Stellar Beer List

After securing a finalist spot for several years running, Blue Hill picked up a James Beard Award for Outstanding Restaurant earlier this week, putting it in the company of Eleven Madison Park (2011), Daniel (2010), Jean Georges (2009), and Gramercy Tavern (2008). For those who have followed the res ... More >>

FiTR's NYC Neighborhood Dining Guide

On the Upper East Side, where can you drink a digestif out of this crazy glass, which seems bent on demonstrating a scientific principle? Four years ago Fork in the Road inaugurated the Our 10 Best guides, and we've never looked back. They've proved so popular that readers have asked for some sort ... More >>

Brooklyn Is All About Clams

The "stuffies" at Kittery are wonderful. Overflowing with fennel-flavored Italian sausage, they're Brooklyn on the half-shell. In the 1630s, when the first Dutch settlers started poking around in the swamps between what are now Carroll Gardens and Park Slope with an eye toward turning it into agri ... More >>

Wylie Dufresne at the Rubin Museum and a Whole New World of Beef

Monday, April 15 French Roast Downtown's 20th Anniversary Celebrate French Roast Downtown's twentieth anniversary with a three-course menu priced at $19.93, the year it opened. Peter Hudson will serve a classic French menu from April 15 to 18 that includes escargots, roasted bone marrow, and moules- ... More >>

January's Openings and Closings

In New York City, only the strong restaurants survive. Or the ones with amazing food, cult followings, lots of great press, and a whole slew of other factors. For those keeping tabs, here's a list of restaurants that opened and closed in January.

Tomorrow: Our 10 Best Restaurants Near Barclays Center, Brooklyn

You're about to ascend the stairs from the subway to the new Barclays Center, where you'll attend a show you've been anticipating for some time. But you've left yourself time to eat first. Where can you get a great meal, either sitting down or on the fly, within easy walking distance of the venue?

5 Great Sodas in NYC

Now that the days of dropping five bucks on a jumbo, movie theater Coke will be going the way of smoking in bars, New Yorkers might want to consider a carbonation contingency plan. Despite Mayor Bloomberg's approved soda ban, plenty of NYC restaurants are crafting their own sodas in-house. Although ... More >>

The Nets Vs. The Knicks: The Basketball War for New York Love

While I was on the F train to Prospect Park, I noticed a structure in the distance as the subway came above ground around Carroll Gardens. It was a futuristic building of epic proportions; a huge MSG-like structure in the middle of Atlantic Avenue. For a second, I wondered what the hell this buildin ... More >>

Our 10 Best Places to Take Mom

If you really love your mom, you might want to consider skipping the Mother's Day specials this year. They tend to be such gloomy experiences as restaurants transform into brunch factories for the day and serve mediocre set menus. Instead, I suggest you take your mother out in the evening, like a re ... More >>

Best of 2011: Our Random Favorites

​In this week's print edition of the paper, you'll find a comprehensive guide to dining around the world without leaving the confines of New York City. We trekked high and low to unearth the best Albanian joint, Chilean eatery, Istrian hub, and Japanese sushi bar. We also covered ingredients ... More >>

Chiles & Chocolate Follows Beer Table and Toby's Public House From the Slope to Manhattan

nsnn.com​While Brooklyn and Manhattan's dining exchange program has generally followed the pattern of the latter's restaurateurs colonizing Williamsburg, Park Slope is leading the reverse charge into Manhattan.

Tracking Down The City's Moonshiners

Not to bust them, but to drink with them

Download: Miracles' Revved-Up, Caustic "Tripwire"

​Nervy post-punkers Miracles mix the rollicking math rock grooves of their Chicago birthplace with the charred Casio crunch of their new Brooklyn digs. Somewhere in between the endless rhythms of Public Image Limited and Bastro lies Miracles' mix of the abrasive and the hypnotic, a steady stre ... More >>

There Is Now One Less Breuckelen in Brooklyn

Photo courtesy of Breuckelen​This year, things named Breuckelen reached an all-time high, thanks to the Breuckelen Distilling Company, Breuckelen the restaurant, and Breuckelen the recently opened wine store we saw while driving through Crown Heights not long ago. But now, that number has shru ... More >>

Our 10 Best In-Store Dining Experiences

Robert SietsemaIkea: Good for cheap furniture and cheap food, like this meatball plate.​ Shopping can be an exhausting activity, and not just for one's wallet. Which is why it's so great when stores have on-site restaurants and cafés. Instant refueling to induce more shopping! So for this ... More >>

The Treats Truck Bakery Hopes for a Summer Opening

​When the Doughnut Plant announced yesterday that it would open its Chelsea Hotel store on Valentine's Day, our thoughts turned to Kim Ima, who told us last September that she was hoping to open her Treats Truck bakery in Carroll Gardens "around Valentine's Day."

In The Great Brooklyn Dining Debate, Steve Cuozzo Responds to Robert Sietsema, Then Carla Spartos Responds to Cuozz

Frank WintersThe bridge that divides us.​The Brooklyn dining debate fueled by Mimi Sheraton's curmudgeonly rant against the borough rages on. The Post's Steve Cuozzo and Carla Spartos go head-to-head in defense of Sheraton and Brooklyn, respectively. Here's the breakdown: Cuozzo stands by his ... More >>

The First Annual SOTC Nightlife Awards: Best Hotel Spot, Most Idiotic Venue-Imposed Music Ban, and More

Kanye West at the Boom Boom Room. Twitpic via MikeNouveau​The best thing about living in New York is that there's never a lack of things to do. We've given up countless hours of sleep to go see our favorite DJs, catch late-night shows, peek into neighborhood hangouts, and investigate the openi ... More >>

Early Reactions: The Brooklyneer

GothamistDark, woody, and sort of like Brooklyn, sort of not.​ Last Thursday night, the newly opened Brooklyneer welcomed a boisterous crowd of Manhattanites and Brooklynites alike. Some ventured in from Film Forum across the street, while others trudged in after a grueling day of work. While ... More >>

Jake Zavracky of Lowlands Talks Happy Hour, Booze in Beer & the Allure of Miller Lite

zavracky.comJake Zavracky​Jake Zavracky is living the dream: tending bar by day and making music by night. Or is it the other way around? In any case, when he's behind the bar at Lowlands, the beer garden that opened in Gowanus earlier this year, he aims to please. What's on tap that's season ... More >>

Carroll Gardens Man Posts "Missing" Fliers for his VIP (Very Important Pants)

via the New York Times​New Yorkers can be careless: We leave cell phones in cabs like they're loose change; we lose our dignity at bars every weekend; we get locked out of our apartments more than we would care to admit, and sometimes, some of us lose extra specially important belongings -- li ... More >>

BKLYN Yard Shut Down: Sunday Best (And Every Other Party There) Left Homeless

Yeah, this place was pretty great. Shit. BKLYN Yard, the improbably wonderful banks-of-the-Gowanus-Canal outdoor venue that played host to outstanding summer dance parties -- including the increasingly beloved Sunday Best series, which had started this year's slate just this past weekend with a Mi ... More >>

The Treats Truck Will Open a Court Street Storefront

Photo courtesy of the Treats TruckNext: a permanent parking spot on Court Street.​Since rolling out of the lot in 2007, Kim Ima's Treats Truck has become a familiar and cheerful sight to sugar-starved members of the populace from midtown to Grand Army Plaza. Come next year, the truck's raspber ... More >>

New Brooklyn Sandwiches, Part Two: Dutch Boy Burgers

The Dutch boy burger: cheddar, crimini mushrooms, caramelized onions, beef​After checking out newly opened Fultummy's sandwiches in Red Hook, we headed west to Crown Heights to check out Dutch Boy Burger.

SCRATCHbread Has Found a New Home

One of SCRATCHbread's superlative hazelnut bars.​ Back in February, word got around that SCRATCHbread's Matthew Tilden was looking for a new space in which to bake his excellent bread.

The JakeWalk's Ari Form Talks Happy Hour, Sad Service & When It's Time to Turn Off the Jazz

townandcountrytravelmag.comAri Form of the JakeWalk​If you're looking for a place to wet your whistle next happy hour, you can always consult your phone, but who knows where that contraption will send you. For a surely good time, head over to the JakeWalk on Smith Street, which has just instit ... More >>

Fire Chief Salvatore Cassano is New FDNY Commissioner

​And the new Fire Commissioner is -- Salvatore Cassano! Awright, we win the pool! Cassano is 64, FDNY's Chief of Department (highest ranked uniformed officer), a 40-year veteran, and a former soldier. He has spoken for the department on controversial issues like anti-terrorism protocol. He w ... More >>

South Brooklyn Pizza Coming to First Avenue

Kate Attardo/New York MagazineBringing pizza straight outta Brooklyn to the East Village.​ Earlier today, EV Grieve noticed that the long-empty storefront at 122 First Avenue (between Seventh and Eighth Streets) was being renovated by the folks behind P.J. Hanley's, the iconic Carroll Gardens ... More >>

Howard Dean Endorses Josh Skaller for Council

Here's an unexpected endorsement -- not because we thought he would endorse someone else, but because we didn't expect him to be involved in a New York city council race: Howard Dean, former Presidential candidate and chairman of the Democratic National Committee, is at this moment endorsing Josh S ... More >>

Star of The Exploding Girl, Zoe Kazan (Yes, that Kazan) Breaks Through

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Close-Up on Red Hook, Brooklyn

Schlepping to a New You

At least the strike makes New York skinny

Muted Miller, Charging Weiner

Cute, Isn't It

We know so many people now—the deli, hi miles, the laundry, hi miles, the Chinese delivery man, hi miles

Letters

Close-Up on Cobble Hill

Where Credit Is Due

Council Plan Helps Landlords Do the Right Thing

Letters

Times Square Trash!

Dating Dissertation

The College Girl's Guide to the Peculiar New York Male Species

Gotham Gifts

Park Slope Scramble

Is the 39th CD De Blasio’s to Lose?

Imagining the Public Advocate

Five Visions for a Young Office

Slicing the Park Slope Pie

Could DiBrienza Wannabes Cost Lefties the Race?

Two-Story Early-1950s House

Defending Her Turf

Demonstration Models

Arresting developments

Ill Advised

Cold Comfort