Carroll Gardens

Nightingale 9 Opens in Carroll Gardens; Cantine Parisienne Opens in Nolitan Hotel

Num Pang opened its third outpost on Wednesday near Flatiron. This Cambodian-inspired sandwich shop will have a beer and wine license, and a few new items have appeared on the menu: rice bowls with pork or grilled fish, and vermicelli noodle bowls topped with egg, peanuts, and coconut shrimp, pork ... More >>

Xi'an Famous Foods Opens in Greenpoint; Three Letters in Clinton Hill

Xi'an Famous Foods has devoted fans all over the city due to their diverse locations in the East Village, Flushing, and Chinatown. The famously cheap spot known for its cold skin noodles and lamb burgers is ready to conquer Brooklyn. On Saturday, Xi'an Famous Foods' doors will open on Beadel Street ... More >>

Floridita Reopens in Harlem, Patsy Grimaldi Opens Juliana's in Dumbo

After Columbia University expanded in Manhattanville, 34-year-old Floridita was forced to move from its Columbia-owned location. But the Caribbean joint reopened just a few blocks away at 12th Avenue and 125th Street in the same building as Dinosaur Bar-B-Que. They're serving up the same grub from t ... More >>

Tejal Rao at Pig and Khao; Robert Sietsema at Chote Nawab

Our own Tejal Rao visits former Top Chef contestant Leah Cohen's Lower East Side South Asian restaurant, Pig and Khao, and finds the outcome boisterous and inconsistent. While Cohen's ability to cook is evident in the noodle curry khao soi which is "full of quality crunch and chew," the crispy pata ... More >>

How Good Are Brooklyn's Japanese Noodle Spots?

The ramen ride

Say Hello To GRK, Guy's American Kitchen and Bar

GRK is a new Greek restaurant that opened in the Financial District on September 10. The menu showcases two Greek classics: yeero and yogurt. The yeero is a wrap filled with slowly rotated, spit-roasted meat. It's is layered onto a warm pita and dressed with different interpretations of tzatziki, th ... More >>

Caesar-Style Escarole at Arthur on Smith, Dish #96

Welcome to 100 Dishes to Eat Now, the tasty countdown leading up to our "Best of 2012" issue. Tune in each day (weekends too!) for a new dish from the Fork in the Road team. [See More 100 Dishes to Eat Now: #97, Hamburger Special at Colador Cafe | #98, Snow Fungus from Palais de Sweet]

Say Hello to Hakkasan, Taboonette

Arabesque, a Morrocan restaurant and lounge, has just opened in Midtown. [Diner's Journal] A new branch of Hakkasan, a trendy restaurant chain with outposts in Dubai, Mumbai, and Miami, has just opened in Midtown. [Zagat] The Franks have turned the delicatessen and provision store next to Prime Me ... More >>

Someone Made an Ode to the F Train

Is the F train your train? Do you hate it, or love it, or love to hate it? This "love/hate ode to the F train" from Matthew Wollin, 24, attempts to capture the mix of emotions, from appreciation to confusion to horror, that we associate with our twice-plus daily ride on the train of our choice (or ... More >>

Seersucker to Suck up More of Smith Street

​Last summer, Seersucker began peddling its brand of "marginally healthier, WASP-ish Southern food" to the denizens of Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill. They gobbled it right up, and made Seersucker a success. Successful enough, in fact, to spin itself off.

Class Action Listings

Goat Town Frenches Us in the East Village

Inspired by its time in Brooklyn, the bistro returns to Manhattan

Breuckelen in Cobble Hill Does the King County Fare

They don't pet animals here—they eat 'em

Our 10 Best BYOB Restaurants

davidstanleyredfern.comWhy buy wine when you can bring your own?​Restaurants generally mark up wine bottles at three times the price they paid for them wholesale. Meaning that you, the customer, are getting screwed. Throw in some pricey cocktails and you're really in trouble. Hence the beau ... More >>

Diego Opening This Sunday with an All-Agave Cocktail Menu

Bud_spencer/flickrNot on the menu at Diego.​Diego, the Mexican restaurant in Carroll Gardens that Ivy Stark of Dos Caminos was rumored to be being involved in -- which she proceeded to vehemently deny -- is opening this Sunday for dinner service.

Open & Closed: Say Hello to 61 Local, Goodbye to The City Grill

Restaurants and bars, they come and they go. Here are a few making their debuts and bowing out this week. La Taqueria in Park Slope has closed completely after downsizing from sit-down restaurant to takeout joint in October. [Eater] East Village vegan café the Little Bird appears to be closed and ... More >>

Lucali Expanding to Manhattan

BrownstonerLucali's Henry Street point of origin.​Among the items on Community Board 2's January SLA meeting agenda: Lucali, the Carroll Gardens pizzeria renowned for both its pies and long lines to eat them, is branching out to Manhattan. Specifically, chef-owner Mark Iacono is planning to op ... More >>

Karloff Brings the Good Life to Brooklyn U.

No hacky sacks, but plenty of hearty grub on Court Street

Open & Closed: Say Hello to Ciano; Goodbye to Donald Sacks

Restaurants and bars, they come and they go. Here are a few making their debuts and bowing out this week. Bossa Nova Brazil in Hell's Kitchen has closed to make room for Flavor, which looks like it could be a martini bar. [Life with Food and Drink]​ Donald Sacks in Battery Park is closing do ... More >>

Fall Guide: Let Burning Lumber Do the Cooking

Ten NYC restaurants that stoke the oven with wood&emdash;how autumnal!

Aria, Pinkerton, and Enoteca on Court Bring Different Things to the Table

New Proposal Would Close NYC Roofs and Patios at 11 P.M.

​The Williamsburg Courier called a "bar-mageddon" this past week as Assemblywoman Joan Millman (D-Carroll Gardens) proposed a bill that would close all rooftop and backyard bars or outdoor seating at 11 p.m. on weekends and 10 p.m. on weeknights. City bars: What's your contingency plan?

Hot Bread Kitchen Moves into Harlem's La Marqueta; Prime Meats Takes Plastic

​The 4,500-square-foot city-owned La Marqueta market in Harlem will now house Hot Bread Kitchen, a non-profit bakery that trains low-income immigrant women in culinary skills. [Wall Street Journal] It still does not take reservations, but Prime Meats in Carroll Gardens now takes credit cards ... More >>

What's Happening This Week: Cinco de Mayo & Cinco de Vino

As many of you know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Austria Uncorked Tribeca Rooftop May 5, 6-9 p.m. The hills (read: a New York City rooftop) will be alive with the taste of Austria's best wines, paired with dis ... More >>

Caputo Bakery's Lard Bread

​Caputo's Bakery on Court Street is 106-year-old hold-out from the time when Carroll Gardens was mainly an Italian neighborhood. James Caputo bakes the lard bread daily in the back room, the same way his great-great-great grandfather did when he opened the bakery. The loaves beckon from behind ... More >>

Neil Ganic Will Collaborate on a New Hicks Street Wine Bar

Brownstoner.comLa Petite Crevette will get a boozy new neighbor.​Carroll Gardens locals and visitors to Neil Ganic's La Petite Crevette will have no doubt come across the coffee shop located down the block from the miniscule seafood restaurant, which is located above the BQE on Hicks Street. G ... More >>

Whole Foods to Start Cleaning up Gowanus Site, but Won't Build Store Anytime Soon

​It looks like Whole Foods is finally doing something to the site at Third Street in Gowanus where it's been sort of planning to build a store for months now. The Carroll Gardens Diary got ahold of a letter sent to WF stakeholders and community groups detailing the chain's plans to begin parti ... More >>

Few Surprises in Times Unemployment Map (Though Coney Beats Carroll Gardens)

​We are grateful for the Times unemployment map, which shows what New York neighborhoods are doing best and worst in these parlous economic times, though most of its findings come as no shock. The big loser is unsurprisingly East New York (also murder rate increase leader) with 3rd-quarter un ... More >>

Beer Here! A Report From the Brooklyn Homebrewers Tour

Josh Bernstein spells it all out.​ On a gorgeous Sunday afternoon, 23 beer lovers met in Sunset Park to embark on a day of heavy drinking. Waiting for everyone to arrive, beer writer Joshua M. Bernstein held a sign he made out of trash that said, "Hey! It's a HOMEBREW TOUR." Bernstein playe ... More >>

Raccoon Roundworm PANIC! Two Seriously Injured in Brooklyn

Swine flu hasn't killed anyone in New York yet -- but raccoon roundworm has left one teenager blind in one eye and brain-damaged an infant in Brooklyn. (The Daily News informs us "The disease had previously been incorrectly called Raccoon Ringworm.") This illness is transmitted by raccoon feces, ... More >>

Gowanus Project Moves Forward, Builders Suffer Huge Losses

Cheap Lunch! Eton Dumplings

Growing Food without Knowing, Hope Breeds From Depths of Dirty Gowanus Canal, and 60 and Still Being Carded...

Class Action Listings for Fall 2008

Red Hook Vendors Return, Weeks Late and Many, Many Dollars Short

Fine Whine

In da Club

Cuming Clean

It's big, it's electric, and it makes me wet. Only $600, at Sears.

Shecky's vs. Girlshop

New shop from bar guide Shecky's cuts in on the young-designers scene

Member's Only

Going Italian social clubbing

Shuttered

Who will remember all the crappy pizza joints fading into NYC history?

Close-Up on the Columbia Street Waterfront District

Wild Life

Listings

NY Mirror

Clarify Your Dissent

Listings

Two-Bedroom Condo in Columbia Terrace

Old and in the Way

As Market Booms, Seniors Get Squeezed

Schools for Scandal

Kiddie Porn